14 DAY TRIAL // iOS 11 adoption has reached 85 percent, which means that nearly 9 in 10 iPhones and iPads have already been updated to Apple’s latest version of the mobile operating system.
It’s not a secret that iOS 11 performance has been a crazy roller coaster ride, especially during the first months of availability.
The initial releases were buggy, to say the least, causing all kinds of problems on iPhones and iPads, including major battery drains, lag, and app crashes occurring all of a sudden.
The performance of iOS 11, however, has been gradually refined up to the point where it became a pretty stable and reliable build, though it goes without saying that there were users who refused to update their devices afraid that not all problems were resolved.
iOS 11 adoption slowing down
But according to Apple’s own stats, iOS 11 adoption has reached 85 percent, which is the all-time high for this particular OS version. However, it looks like the update pace has slowed down in the last months.
The previous update to these numbers was made in late May when 81 percent of the supported devices were running iOS 11, so in three months, the market share increased by only 4 percent. This could be a direct result of most iPhones and iPads already being updated to iOS 11, but at the same time, it may also show that there still are users reluctant to installing this latest version.
iOS 10 is the runner-up in the charts with 10 percent share, followed by older releases with just 5 percent.
In the meantime, Apple is getting ready to introduce iOS 12, the next major update that has been in beta for the past few months. iOS 12 will most likely be released shortly after Apple’s September 12 press conference when the company will take the wraps off its new iPhone generation and the Apple Watch Series 4.