Apple launched new figures Friday, highlighting consumer adoption of iOS 18. Released in public kind again in September 2024, the cell working system is now put in on 68% of appropriate units. That quantity jumps to 78% on iPhones launched within the final 4 years.
As for the remaining iPhones on the market, 19% are working iOS 17, and 13% are utilizing an earlier model. Similarly, 19% of iPhones launched within the final 4 years are  at present working iOS 17.
The determine drops to five% with earlier iOS builds — comprehensible, given the general share of these units that shipped with both iOS 17 or 18, together with early adopters’ propensity to maintain their units working the newest OS updates. As 9 to five Mac factors out, the figures offered are just like these Apple issued in 2024 round iOS 17 adoption.
The firm’s small mannequin strategy to generative AI, Apple Intelligence, was the marquee characteristic for iOS 18. That arrived with the working system’s first main replace, 18.1, with extra options arriving with 18.2. The present public model is eighteen.2.1. Of course, Apple Intelligence has had some stumbles out of the gate, together with one which required the corporate to roll again News notification summaries.
iPadOS 18’s adoption figures, in the meantime, are markedly decrease than its cell counterpart. Currently, 53% of all iPads are working iPadOS 18. That determine jumps to 63% for these launched within the final 4 years.
