Only 23% of active iPhones run iOS 17, while nearly 45% continue to use one of the two iOS 16 versions for stability.
Apple officially released iOS 17 on September 18 after a long period of community testing. Since being introduced at WWDC 2023 in June, this platform has promised to bring a few changes that have been expected by a part of iPhone users.
However, after 3 weeks of launch, the download and installation rate of iOS 17 is below normal compared to previous operating system versions and there have been 3 small updates released to fix bugs. . update A few days after opening the iOS 17, Apple had to release iOS 17.0.1 to patch security errors. Not long after, users discovered that the latest iOS version caused the iPhone 15 series to not be able to receive data from older devices, forcing Apple to fix it with iOS 17.0.2
Next, iOS 17.0.3 was quickly released to prevent the iPhone 15 series and some cases of using older iPhones from heating up abnormally while using applications (such as Instagram, Uber, and Asphalt 9). Charging the battery at the same time caused Apple’s phone to overheat, at one point measuring about 45 degrees Celsius. This patch also addresses a few security flaws in the system.
According to market research company Mixpanel, up to now only about 23% of all active iPhones have upgraded to iOS 17 (installed 1 of the 4 released versions), of which 12.13% are running iOS 17.0. 2; 6.84% have downloaded iOS 17.0.3; 1.76% use iOS 17.0.1 and only 2% of devices still run iOS 17. The installation rate is even worse when the iOS 17 operating system is actually pre-installed on millions of iPhone 15 series devices sold on the market. school, contributing significantly to the total 23% mentioned.
Meanwhile, nearly 45% of iPhone users are keeping their devices running one of the two most recent iOS 16 versions, 16.6.1 and 16.7.
With the instability of the new platform, many users decided to keep their devices on the old operating system version to avoid trouble, accepting the lack of some features only available on iOS 17. This move also caused problems. The iOS update process is slower than usual. Last year, iOS 16 was available on 29% of active iPhones at the time just 18 days after launch. This rate increased to 70% after 4 months. As for iOS 12, this operating system only took 2 and a half months to be installed on 70% of devices