Apple introducing options of iOS 18 in 2024 — picture credit score: Apple
Whereas the figures are shut, Apple’s introduced adoption fee for iOS 18 places it just under the common for the final decade’s releases — despite the fact that Apple Intelligence was supposed to spice up its recognition.
By January 2025, iOS 18 seemed to be forward of its predecessor, reaching 76% of all appropriate iPhones a month earlier than iOS 17 did the yr earlier than. Even that determine was maybe surprisingly low, nonetheless, since Tim Cook dinner had introduced vastly sooner upgrading at first in October 2024.
“[This is a] actually early stat, which is barely three days price of knowledge,” he mentioned on the time, “however customers are adopting iOS 18.1 at twice the speed that they adopted 17.1 within the yr in the past quarter.”
“It is a mixture that 15 was stronger than 14 within the yr… and 16 was stronger than 15,” he continued. “Plus, remember that the 15 Professional and Professional Max additionally run Apple Intelligence.”
Now Apple has introduced what is anticipated to be its ultimate account of iOS 18 adoption. The corporate says that iOS 18 is at present put in on 82% of all appropriate iPhones.
Evaluating ten years of iOS
In saying that determine, Apple mentioned that this adoption fee is all the way down to its customers being conscious of the advantages of updating, plus how easy the corporate has made it to replace.
Evaluating Apple’s personal figures from the final ten years, nonetheless, iOS 18 is available in at just below the common of 83.2%. The particular figures from 2015’s iOS 8 to 2025’s iOS 18 for all appropriate iPhones are:
- 2015 iOS 8: 84%
- 2016 iOS 9: 84%
- 2017 iOS 10: 86%
- 2018 iOS 11: 81%
- 2019 iOS 12: 87%
- 2020 iOS 13: 81%
- 2021 iOS 14: 90%
- 2022 iOS 15: 82%
- 2023 iOS 16: 81%
- 2024 iOS 17: 77%
- 2025 iOS 18: 82%
So within the final decade, iOS 14 noticed the very best adoption fee with 90%. Then iOS 17 scored the bottom with 77%.
These figures have been taken from Apple’s personal listings on its developer.apple.com website, which periodically measures adoption fee via person entry of the App Retailer. Over the last decade, essentially the most comparable measurements have been recorded at varied dates from late Might to mid-June.
Apple splits out adoption charges into two units
Apple doesn’t publish additional element such because the adoption of level releases like 18.1, 18.2, and so forth. Nevertheless, since 2019, the corporate has individually recorded the iOS adoption fee for iPhones launched within the earlier 4 years.
It isn’t clear why it launched this, or why it selected 4 years, however the figures don’t materially assist iOS 18’s case.
Utilizing solely this last-four-years information from Apple in 2019, the common adoption fee is 87.9%. Meaning iOS 18’s determine of 88% is simply 0.1% above the common.
The minimal adoption fee throughout this era and for this vary of iPhones is 85%, which was achieved by each iOS 12 and iOS 14. The utmost was 92% for iOS 13.
Curiously, throughout these six years, the newest iPhones didn’t at all times noticed a better fee of adoption than that for all iPhones. In 2021, iOS 14’s fee for these newest iPhones was 5% decrease than all iPhones, at 85%. In 2019, iOS 12 was 2% behind all iPhones, additionally at 85%.
The whole listing of Apple’s figures for “all units launched within the final 4 years,” for the reason that firm launched such information, is:
- 2019 iOS 12: 85%
- 2020 iOS 13: 92%
- 2021 iOS 14: 85%
- 2022 iOS 15: 89%
- 2023 iOS 16: 90%
- 2024 iOS 17: 86%
- 2025 iOS 18: 88%
Total, iOS adoption fee for all appropriate units within reason regular, having by no means fallen under 77% within the final ten years, and by no means rising above 90%.
By comparability, figures from Discuss Android in Might 2025 declare that solely 4.5% of Android telephones are on the newest OS.