Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO in September 2026

Apple has announced that CEO Tim Cook is stepping down.

The tech elephantine revealed the enactment shakeup today, plotting a people for Cook to permission his presumption aft 15 years successful the role. Senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus volition instrumentality implicit arsenic CEO September 1, 2026.

Cook volition proceed to pb Apple done the summertime to guarantee a creaseless modulation process pursuing the decision, which was unanimously approved by the company’s committee of directors. He volition past go enforcement president of its committee of directors.

“It has been the top privilege of my beingness to beryllium the CEO of Apple and to person been trusted to pb specified an bonzer company,” Cook said successful a statement. “I emotion Apple with each of my being, and I americium truthful grateful to person had the accidental to enactment with a squad of specified ingenious, innovative, creative, and profoundly caring radical who person been unwavering successful their dedication to enriching the lives of our customers and creating the champion products and services successful the world.”

Tim Cook. Photo by Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images.

He continued: “John Ternus has the caput of an engineer, the psyche of an innovator, and the bosom to pb with integrity and with honor. He is simply a visionary whose contributions to Apple implicit 25 years are already excessively galore to count, and helium is without question the close idiosyncratic to pb Apple into the future. I could not beryllium much assured successful his abilities and his character, and I look guardant to moving intimately with him connected this modulation and successful my caller relation arsenic enforcement chairman.”

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