iOS 12 being adopted by iPhone and iPad users at a quicker rate than iOS 11
Released in September, iOS 12 is now on 78 percent of all iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches shipped in the past four years, Apple said in updated stats for developers.
Among those devices, 17 percent are still on iOS 11, while 5 percent are using iOS 10 or earlier. People will sometimes hold off on updating iPhones and iPads for the sake of hacking, testing, app compatibility, or speed -- though iOS 12 was a concerted effort to improve performance on older hardware, annual iOS upgrades have previously caused either minor or major slowdowns.
Broadening analytics to all Apple mobile devices, iOS 12 usage shrinks to 75 percent. The missing 3 percent can be found with pre-iOS 11 users, some of whom might not be able to install the newest software.
iOS 12 adoption has so far outpaced iOS 11. In late January last year iOS 11 was on 65 percent of devices, only reaching 85 percent days before iOS 12's launch.
Beyond better performance, iOS 12 includes features like an improved notification system, memoji, ARKit 2 support, and Siri shortcuts enabling something akin to Amazon Alexa skills.
Among those devices, 17 percent are still on iOS 11, while 5 percent are using iOS 10 or earlier. People will sometimes hold off on updating iPhones and iPads for the sake of hacking, testing, app compatibility, or speed -- though iOS 12 was a concerted effort to improve performance on older hardware, annual iOS upgrades have previously caused either minor or major slowdowns.
Broadening analytics to all Apple mobile devices, iOS 12 usage shrinks to 75 percent. The missing 3 percent can be found with pre-iOS 11 users, some of whom might not be able to install the newest software.
iOS 12 adoption has so far outpaced iOS 11. In late January last year iOS 11 was on 65 percent of devices, only reaching 85 percent days before iOS 12's launch.
Beyond better performance, iOS 12 includes features like an improved notification system, memoji, ARKit 2 support, and Siri shortcuts enabling something akin to Amazon Alexa skills.
Comments
Even when iOS 12 was released ios 11 was still so buggy that I’m sure a lot of people upgraded just to fix the bugs
Many Apple native iOS apps are still those developed or last modified on iOS 11, iOS 10, or even iOS 9. Speaking so the fact, is iOS 12 really iOS 12? or just iOS (current year - 2007) * 2007 was year the first iOS version 1.0 released.
Apple should frankly and simply use the year for its iOS versions, say, iOS 2018, iOS 2019, iOS 2020.
I absolutely love the gestures of iOS 12 on my XR! Feels so natural! I never believed something could be better than the Home button, but they managed to find something!
You're going to need to try harder than that! iOS 12 on my SE still runs super-fast! I'm now lugging an XR, but I use both phones daily, and performance is not an issue at all, hasn't been for years for me! Maybe you're using an entirely separate set of apps from me? For example, if you find the Facebook app slow, quite often, that can not be the device or Apple's fault, but rather the developer not optimizing the experience enough, or the app is trying to do too much at once. Network speed and bandwidth, for example, can have a very noticeable on the performance of apps that need to load resources over the internet.