Apple posted iOS 18 adoption charges on Friday, that are solely barely totally different from the numbers for iOS 17 a 12 months in the past. The corporate says iOS 18 has been put in on 68 p.c of all iPhones (as of January 21) and 76 p.c of fashions from the final 4 years.
A 12 months in the past, 66 p.c of all iPhones ran iOS 17, so there’s a two-percent uptick for iOS 18 this 12 months. The opposite stat was equivalent to at this time’s knowledge: 76 p.c of iPhones from the earlier 4 years have been working iOS 17 in January 2024.
iPad homeowners aren’t transferring any needles dramatically, both. Apple says 53 p.c of all iPads are working iPadOS 18 (the identical as iPadOS 17 a 12 months in the past). And 63 p.c of the tablets from the final 4 years run iPadOS 18. That’s a notch above the 61 p.c of units from the earlier 4 years working iPadOS 17 early final 12 months.
Does the minor enhance come from Apple Intelligence wooing just a few additional curious adopters? Sadly, the corporate is mum about how many individuals have opted into its suite of generative AI options.
Regardless, we are able to speculate that Apple desires Apple Intelligence adoption to develop: Within the newest iOS 18.3 beta, Apple is enabling its AI options by default throughout onboarding. (You may nonetheless decide out after that, however you must dig into settings to take action.) In earlier variations, it was an opt-in function you needed to explicitly comply with throughout setup. That software program may arrive as early as subsequent week.
