Apple says 68 p.c of all iPhones are working iOS 18

Apple posted iOS 18 adoption rates on Friday, that are solely barely completely different from the numbers for iOS 17 a yr in the past. The corporate says iOS 18 has been put in on 68 p.c of all iPhones (as of January 21) and 76 p.c of fashions from the final 4 years.

A yr in the past, 66 p.c of all iPhones ran iOS 17, so there’s a two-percent uptick for iOS 18 this yr. The opposite stat was similar to as we speak’s information: 76 p.c of iPhones from the earlier 4 years have been working iOS 17 in January 2024.

iPad house owners aren’t transferring any needles dramatically, both. Apple says 53 p.c of all iPads are working iPadOS 18 (the identical as iPadOS 17 a yr in the past). And 63 p.c of the tablets from the final 4 years run iPadOS 18. That’s a notch above the 61 p.c of gadgets from the earlier 4 years working iPadOS 17 early final yr.

Does the minor increase come from Apple Intelligence wooing a couple of additional curious adopters? Sadly, the corporate is mum about how many individuals have opted into its suite of generative AI options.

Regardless, we will speculate that Apple needs Apple Intelligence adoption to develop: Within the newest iOS 18.3 beta, Apple is enabling its AI options by default throughout onboarding. (You’ll be able to nonetheless decide out after that, however you need to dig into settings to take action.) In earlier variations, it was an opt-in function you needed to explicitly conform to throughout setup. That software program might arrive as early as subsequent week.