Mikey Campbell
After only six days of availability, Apple's latest mobile operating system iteration, iOS 10, is already on one-third of Apple devices tracked by analytics firm Mixpanel.
While Apple has yet to announce official adoption numbers, Mixpanel shows iOS 10 tracking at 33.64 percent of Apple devices, up from an initial figure of 14 percent measured 24 hours after last week's launch.
As expected, iOS 10's uptick comes at the cost of iOS 9 share, with 61.5 percent of devices still running Apple's last-generation operating system as of Sunday. Those running OS versions older than iOS 9 are also upgrading, as the number of tracked legacy users fell from 5.42 percent last week to 4.86 percent.
Though impressive, iOS 10 adoption is slower than last year's record-breaking conversion rates. In 2015, Apple saw iOS 9 installed on more than 50 percent of all compatible iPhones, iPads and iPod touch units in only four days.
Apple's iOS 10 debuted last week with user interface enhancements and feature additions to Messages, Maps, Siri, Photos, Apple Music, News, and more. The free update is available now through the Software Update function in the iOS Settings app.
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I have it on all of my devices now, and I like iOS 10. There are a lot of good, new features.
I did disable some of the new features, like the extra press required when unlocking the phone. I prefer no extra press.
Another thing that I noticed, but I haven't really seen anybody else talking about are the new sounds. I'm not sure what I think about them yet.
I noticed right away that my keyboard makes different typing sounds now, and it seems like different tones are assigned to specific keys, like the spacebar. Is that for blind people or something? The typing sounds are more dull sounding than before. It would be cool if you could swap out the sounds, and choose your own type of typing sounds.
I also like how the notifications are now.
And it is a buggy release yet again. Picked up my iPhone 7Plus and search feature in messages does not search for old messages. The new messages are searchable the remainder you have to manually scroll thru. Tried my wife's 7Plus and it does the same thing. My kids iPhone 7 however does not have the problem.
I am really happy with iOS 10 so far. The only thing that keeps tripping me up every single time I use it is the unlock screen. Since I have developed an automatic, near involuntary swipe to the right as soon as I click on the home button, I'm really struggling to change that simple behavior to two taps on the home button instead. Hard to change an action you've performed literally thousands and thousands of times without even thinking about it.