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iOS 18 saw below average adoption despite Apple Intelligence


While the figures are close, Apple's announced adoption rate for iOS 18 puts it just below the average for the last decade's releases — even though Apple Intelligence was supposed to boost its popularity.

Even that figure was perhaps surprisingly low, however, since Tim Cook had announced vastly faster upgrading at the start in October 2024. These figures were taken from Apple's own listings on its developer.apple.com site, which periodically measures adoption rate through user access of the App Store. The complete list of Apple's figures for "all devices introduced in the last four years," since the company released such data, is:

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