Apple says iOS 8 is now powering 63 percent of active iOS devices
User adoption of the latest major version of Apple’s mobile operating system continues to rise.
According to the the newly updated distribution chart shown on Apple’s developer portal, iOS 8 is now running on 63 percent of active iOS devices, with iOS 7 on 33 percent and earlier iOS versions on just 4 percent.
The new figures are based on data measured by the App Store yesterday, Dec. 8, about a couple of weeks after Apple’s last iOS distribution chart refresh. Previously, as measured by the App Store on Nov. 24 (following the release of iOS 8.1.1), iOS 8 accounted for 60 percent of iOS devices, with iOS 7 at 35 percent and earlier versions at 5 percent.
Apple publicly released iOS 8 on Sept. 17. As we previously noted:
A week after its release and just days after the launch of the iOS 8-powered iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8 was reported to have been running on 46 percent of devices. Two weeks later, its adoption went up a mere one percent, followed by another percent point increase a week later, with the software’s slow initial adoption attributed to its large storage space requirement and the disaster that was iOS 8.0.1.
Following the release of iOS 8.1 and the launch of the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3, iOS 8 was reported to be running on just over half of iOS devices, 52 percent to be exact.
Apple’s announcement that iOS 8 is now powering 63 percent of iOS devices comes shortly after the release of iOS 8.1.2, which includes bug fixes and addresses an issue concerning disappearing ringtones.
See also: Apple finally switches over to Apple Maps for the Find My iPhone iCloud.com interface, Apple TV adds 4 new channels, YouTube updated, and Apple won’t release federal diversity data.
