Wikimedia data: iOS 26 adoption was ~50% in January, below iOS 18's 72% in 2025, as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter had 15% after missing Safari changes
Daring Fireball John Gruber
Related Coverage
- Wikimedia: Browser family-major over time (adoption rate) Timo Tijhof on CodePen
- Mobile & Tablet iOS Version Market Share Worldwide Statcounter
- ⌥ Updating the Record on iOS 26 Usage Share Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
- Two Small iOS 26 Usage Share Updates Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
- A sternly worded blog lapcatsoftware.com · Jeff Johnson
- iOS 26 adoption rate isn't as lousy as suspected, but it's still not great Cult of Mac · Ed Hardy
- @pxlnv @lapcatsoftware — For reliable browser adoption data, check Wikimedia's analytics. We correctly use browser version for Safari (macOS) and Mobile Safari (iOS). — I might write something up later but here's the data year-over-year. — Graphs: — https://codepen.io/... Previous blog: … @krinkle@fosstodon.org
- I was curious about iOS 26 adoption for NetNewsWire. I looked at the 30-day-active-users numbers, separated by iOS version. — Current adoption is 84% for iOS 26. — (I don't have numbers for NetNewsWire for Mac — it's not on the App Store — so I just don't know.) @brentsimmons@indieweb.social · Brent Simmons
Discussion
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@kirb.me
Adam Demasi
on bluesky
StatCounter has had multiple gaffes with their data recently (the spike in fake Windows 7 users, and now miscounting iOS 26 users), and I don't recommend trusting it, at least for now. They had months to test if iOS 26 was detected properly, and didn't. The Wikimedia data seems…
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@_Davidsmith@mastodon.social
David Smith
on mastodon
I noticed iOS 26 adoption had entered a ‘third wave’ of rapid adoption. So I made a graph of the relative adoption versus iOS 18 at this point in the release cycle. — While lower than iOS 18 at this point for my apps (65% vs. 78%), the shape of this graph says to me that Apple…
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@Gargron@mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
on mastodon
@daringfireball Anecdotally, my parents are holding off on upgrading their devices to 26 because they don't like how it looks and how much laggier it is.
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@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social
Jeff Johnson
on mastodon
RE: https://mastodon.social/... “What's going on, quite obviously, is that Apple itself is slow-rolling the automatic updates to iOS 26.” — Apple already intentionally discontinued iOS 18 security updates for devices that support iOS 26, so if Gruber's claim is true, then Appl…