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Follow-up: since all appleOSes are closed-source, and the increasing difficulty to develop jailbreaks (they've practically ceased to exist), no one can easily dismantle the two OSes down to examine them in detail.
But we can infer something from observation. Suppose that iOS26 is a completely different OS than macOS26 that shares nothing but their Darwin kernel. That will imply they use a completely different set of libraries that shares little code base. As iOS and macOS have many libraries in common (eg. Metal, CoreAudio, Cocoa, and Quartz 2D), this implies that they're developed separately. If one updated Quartz 2D in macOS to draw Liquid Glass, they can't just copy it to iOS and have to write the entire Liquid Glass again for the iPhones, and make sure the two version of Quartz 2D behaves the same.
Which bears the question: why would anyone want to do that?
The article goes on to explain that it was developed by the MacOS team, and Jobs himself said "iPhone runs OS X" before it was officially named iOS. Both systems have of course deviated significantly since then, but the original are what they are.Note: response quoted from , itself a ChompyTheGogoat's comment on IrisChronomia's user talk page. 海盐沙冰/ aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads 23:08, 11 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. GSK (talk • edits) 19:38, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
Not done for now: Please specify an appropriately licensed image file to be used. LizardJr8 (talk) 06:39, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
