The iOS 12 software is now powering 75 percent of all devices

Apple’s iOS 12 software straight off powers three-quarters of all devices.

According to fresh information posted Midweek to Apple’s App Store dashboard for developers, the next information points are straight off known based on App Store access logs captured on Jan 1:

• 78 percent of all devices introduced inwards the final 4 years are using iOS 12
  
  
  
  • iOS 11: 17 percent
  
  
  • iOS 10 in addition to older: 5 percent
  
  
  
  


• 75 percent of all devices are using iOS 12
  
  
  
  • iOS 11: 17 percent
  
  
  • iOS 10 in addition to older: 8 percent
  
  
  
  

In about a calendar month or so, the adoption charge per unit of measurement for Apple’s mobile operating arrangement has picked upward nine per centum points, increasing from the 70 percent of all iOS devices sold inwards the final iv years beingness on iOS 12 to the 78 percent of hardware reported today.

iOS 12 has the same hardware requirements every bit iOS 11, pregnant it runs on whatsoever iPhone from 2013’s iPhone 5s onward, all iPad Pro models, inwards add-on to iPad mini 2 in addition to newer, iPad Air in addition to the fifth-generation iPad in addition to up, plus the sixth-generation iPod touch.

By comparison, hither are iOS 12 stats based on the previous update on Oct 31, 2018.

• 63 percent of all devices introduced inwards the final 4 years were using iOS 12
  
  
  
  • iOS 11: thirty percent
  
  
  • iOS 10 in addition to older: vii percent
  
  
  
  


• 60 percent of all devices were using iOS 12
  
  
  
  • iOS 11: 29 percent
  
  
  • iOS 10 in addition to older: xi percent
  
  
  
  

I said it earlier in addition to I’ll say it again: having reliable information from an official root similar Apple pays dividends compared against inquiry firms similar Mixpanel which derive their estimates past times having people download lead apps amongst a exceptional tracking code embedded inwards them. For instance, Mixpanel’s November 29, 2018 approximate had iOS 12 hitting 75 percent of compatible devices whereas inwards reality it took an additional calendar month or in addition to thence to make that milestone.

Back to our friends inwards the Android world, their final ii major updates—6.x (Marshmallow) in addition to 7.x (Nougat)—collectively ability less than 50 percent of Android devices inwards the wild, according to Google’s numbers collected during a 7-day catamenia ending on Oct 26, 2018.

Once again, Google’s numbers highlight Android’s terrible fragmentation problem.

Apple’s stats evidence iOS 12’s been adopted to a greater extent than chop-chop than the bug-ridden iOS xi update. It’s roughly on par amongst iOS 10, which hitting the 76 percent adoption charge per unit of measurement on Jan 5, 2017.

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While adoption rates for iOS 12 are similar to those for iOS 10, adoption charge per unit of measurement figures for iOS xiii are sure as shooting going to hold off fifty-fifty improve than currently.

That’s because iOS 12 has brought an option to install iOS software updates automatically, removing whatsoever remaining friction associated amongst applying these updates manually.

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