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There is nothing like some exciting adoption statistics to make your Friday more interesting.
On Friday, Apple released the iOS 18 adoption rates, which are only a little different from the iOS 17 adoption statistics from a year ago. According to the business, 68 percent of all iPhones (as of January 21) have iOS 18 installed, as well as 76 percent of devices from the last four years.
Last year, 66 percent of all iPhones were running iOS 17. This year, there has been a two percent increase in the number of iPhones running iOS 18. The other statistic was the same as the data from today: 76 percent of iPhones from the preceding four years were running iOS 17 in January 2024.
iPad owners are not making any significant changes either. According to Apple, 53 percent of all iPads are currently running iPadOS 18, which is the same as iPadOS 17 from a year ago. Additionally, 63 percent of the tablets released in the past four years run iPadOS 18. That is a little better than the 61 percent of devices that were running iPadOS 17 in the early part of last year, which was the average for the preceding four years.
Is the small increase due to Apple Intelligence attracting a few more interested users? Unfortunately, the business is not saying how many users have chosen to use its suite of generative AI features.
In any case, we can assume that Apple wants Apple Intelligence to be adopted more widely: Apple is turning on its AI functions by default during onboarding in the latest iOS 18.3 beta. (You may still choose to opt out after that, but you will need to go into the settings to do so.) In earlier versions, it was a feature that you had to choose to use and give your consent to during the setup process. The software might be here as soon as next week.
