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Users still not upgrading to iOS 15 as quickly as iOS 14

Credit: Andrew O'Hara, AppleInsider

Estimated user data shows almost 21% of active iPhone users have upgraded to the new iOS 15, but that's behind the number who moved to iOS 14 over the same period last year.

Initial figures from research firm Mixpanel, showed that about half as many users updated to iOS 15 during its first two days, compared to iOS 14 in 2020. By September 22, 2021, it was believed that 8.5% of users had updated to iOS 15, compared to 14.5% going to iOS 14 in its first two days.

Now Mixpanel has released data covering iOS 15's first two weeks. The company's data is based on analysing the devices of visitors to its websites, and estimates that 20.74% of traffic is coming from iOS 15.

In comparison, iOS 14 had 40.51% adoption by its second week.

Source: Mixpanel Source: Mixpanel

At present, Mixpanel reports that 73.48% of users are on iOS 14, and 5.78% are on older versions.

Apple is already preparing iOS 15.1, and the first developer betas of it have been released. It's expected that the update will fix some of the many bugs found in the initial iOS 15 release.

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19 Comments

Skeptical 9 Years · 183 comments

Why would they when it’s a daily whack-a-bug. 

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djkfisher 14 Years · 131 comments

We installed iOS 15 on two iPhones one iPad, TV and HomePod. So far everything is working well. 

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entropys 14 Years · 4344 comments

I am waiting until the daily bugfest slows down.

and I bet the apple music offline 15 seconds and then stop bug for downloaded music that has been floating around for 8 months isn’t smitten either.

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apollak 11 Years · 14 comments

My 4 AirTags do not work anymore for my IPhone. Warning me, when I enter my car or using my MTB. So, where is the fix from Apple?

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skipdeedy 12 Years · 15 comments

This is the first time since iPhone OS2 I’ve not upgraded to the latest major release immediately on day 1. 

After successive buggy updates, I’m just weary now of new releases. Going to wait until 15.0.1 at least or even 15.1. Really want some of the new features but also don’t want to be dealing with some of the bugs that have come to light. 

My faith in Apple software releases has been badly damaged. 

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