Are people updating to iOS 26? Here’s what the data reportedly shows - 9to5Mac
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Statcounter data indicates that iOS 26 is lagging significantly behind predecessors in adoption, with most users opting to stay on iOS 18.

“So four months after its release, iOS 26 is only in use by about 16% of iPhone users, while iOS 18 remains over 60%.”

  • fulg@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The real reason adoption is slow is that the update is opt-in. Normal people have their phone set up to automatically update, and it works fine as-is.

    The only reason I have iOS 26 is because I bothered to go in the Software Update page and saw it was released.

    To be honest though, *OS 26 is the worst update yet overall, lots of crashes and the UI changes are not great. If there was an option to go back to the old UI I would use it…