Apple's iOS 14, iPadOS 14 hits 26% adoption five days after launch

Credit: Andrew O'Hara, AppleInsider

Apple's new iOS 14 update have been adopted by an estimated 26.81% of active iPhone, iPad, and iPod users just five days after it launched, according to Mixpanel data.

The adoption rate for Apple's newest operating system update appears to outpacing its iOS 13 predecessor, which reached 20% adoption in five days per Mixpanel data. Apple released iOS 14 for iPhone and iPod touch, and iPadOS 14 for iPads, on Wednesday, Sept. 16.

A variety of new iOS 14 features could be driving the quicker adoption, including the new customizable Home Screen options or the ability to set third-party email and browser apps as the system default.

It's important to note that Mixpanel's data, which also includes iPadOS 14, is an estimate based on website and app usage analytics. MacRumors first spotted the iOS 14 adoption rate on Monday.

Apple routinely releases its own iOS adoption numbers, though it typically takes at least a month before that official data is released.

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15 Comments

red oak 1104 comments · 13 Years

About 4 years ago

Remarkable

MplsP 4021 comments · 8 Years

About 4 years ago

red oak said:

Remarkable

Yes, it’s pretty impressive. I’m still waiting for more reviews and likely the 14.1 release. Thankfully, there are a whole lot of people out there testing it for me!

mknelson 1146 comments · 9 Years

About 4 years ago

MplsP said:

Yes, it’s pretty impressive. I’m still waiting for more reviews and likely the 14.1 release. Thankfully, there are a whole lot of people out there testing it for me!

I haven't seen many bugs. Lots of cool new features and fixes though.

Occasionally messages seems to freeze while typing, but it still captures the whole sentence. Appears to be when there's a message incoming.

A friend who was playing with Widgets had her phone dump all 300+ apps out of their folders. One per home screen page… Not sure what happened there! She restored from the last backup to fix.

The battery seems to be draining a bit faster, but that's not unusual with the first release.

"Hey Siri, open AnyList and add **** to Grocery" now works again. Siri in iOS 13 insisted on opening the Lists app.

ch4d 3 comments · 6 Years

About 4 years ago

Problems with Apple Watch data not being completely synced in the iPhone health app now appearing on the Apple support forums.

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MplsP 4021 comments · 8 Years

About 4 years ago

mknelson said:

MplsP said:

Yes, it’s pretty impressive. I’m still waiting for more reviews and likely the 14.1 release. Thankfully, there are a whole lot of people out there testing it for me!

I haven't seen many bugs. Lots of cool new features and fixes though.

Occasionally messages seems to freeze while typing, but it still captures the whole sentence. Appears to be when there's a message incoming.

A friend who was playing with Widgets had her phone dump all 300+ apps out of their folders. One per home screen page… Not sure what happened there! She restored from the last backup to fix.

The battery seems to be draining a bit faster, but that's not unusual with the first release.

"Hey Siri, open AnyList and add **** to Grocery" now works again. Siri in iOS 13 insisted on opening the Lists app.

Good to hear - 13 was a pretty buggy release, even for a ‘.0’ version. Sounds like 14 is better