Andrew Orr
Early adoption rates for iOS 16 have been revealed in a new report, with the new update slightly ahead of iOS 15 after 24 hours.
After 24 hours upon release on September 12, iOS 16 has been downloaded by 6.71% of users so far, according to Mixpanel. This is an increase over iOS 15 at 6.48% by the first day. However, iOS 14 numbers beat both of them with 9.22% of users downloading it on day one.
Apple's website paints a good picture of iOS 15, saying that 89% of all devices introduced in the last four years run this version, while 82% of all devices use iOS 15.
Apple introduced a notable change in the way it issues updates that started with iOS 15. It didn't force iOS 14 users to upgrade. Instead, the iPhone offers a choice between two software update versions in Settings.
Customers could keep using iOS 14 while also receiving the latest security updates, with the choice to upgrade to iOS 15 if they wanted.
This option likely affected first-day adoption rates, which is probably true of iOS 16 given that the option remains to stay on iOS 15 for now. But Apple continues to support a wide range of iPhones, and iOS 16 can be installed on iPhone 8 and later.
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3 Comments
If you have an iPhone 11 or older I’d stay with iOS15. I currently have an XS and should not have upgraded to iOS 15 last year. That marked the end of it being a fast, “snappy” phone. Still usable but the overall experience went down the toilet. Crashing apps, lagging keyboard and “jitter” throughout the animations of the operating system.
I have an iPhone14 Pro on order and will not be upgrading it beyond iOS18 based on the above experience.
Oddly enough while Software Update via my laptop was available for iOS 15.7 even after that upgrade 16 wasn’t offered: so I ejected my phone and did it wirelessly. Smooth and fast.