iOS 15 adoption rate

We are only two days away from knowing all the news about the new Apple operating systems. For many, WWDC is the event of the year, especially for all the developers who get into all the activities of the week. Many rumors are circulating around iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and watchOS 9, among others, including the possible arrival of a new MacBook Air with new colors and a possible M2 chip. But before we focus on the new operating systems, Apple has updated the installation data for iOS 15 and iPadOS 15: 82% of compatible iPhones have iOS 15 installed on their device.

Nearly 9 out of 10 modern iPhones have iOS 15 installed

Apple releases a major update for each operating system every year. In fact, it uses its annual developer conference, WWDC, to release all the big details about updates. During the rest of the year, successive updates are released incorporating functions that have been reserved and not available in the first versions. As you well know, Apple introduced iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 at WWDC21 last year and since then there have been several updates until we hit iOS 15.5.

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Thanks to the Apple Developer Portal, we can find out what percentage of users have the latest major updates for their operating system. The news is that the big apple updated the operating system adoption data a few days before the start of WWDC22. This is the data that the new update launches:

  • The 89% of modern iPhones (4 years so far) installed iOS 15, 10% iOS 14 and 1% a previous OS.
  • The 82% of iPhones they installed iOS 15, 14% iOS 14 and 4% a previous operating system.
  • The 79% of modern iPads (4 years so far) have iPadOS 15 installed, 18% iPadOS 14 and 3% a previous OS.
  • The 72% of iPads installed iPadOS 15, 18% iPadOS 14 and 10% a previous operating system.

These data are extracted by the statistics that Apple obtains by accessing the App Store. We can compare it to the official adoption data released in January 2022. In this update, it was found that 72% of modern iPhones had iOS 15. In six months, it was increased adoption rate by 17%, which means that 8 out of 10 iPhones (regardless of version) have iOS 15.