Apple will unveil its new iOS 16 iPhone operating system on Monday. As iOS 15’s heyday begins to wind down, mobile analytics company Mixpanel says iOS 15 is nearing a 90% adoption rate. At the time of this writing, iOS has an estimated adoption rate of 88.9%, a nearly 10% jump from ten weeks ago.
Mixpanel’s numbers are based on tracking visits to apps and websites that use its mobile analytics SDK, so the numbers are not entirely accurate. Apple last published adoption numbers for iOS 15 in January. 72% of iPhones released in the last four years are running the company’s latest iOS release.
iOS 15 was adopted at a slower rate compared to iOS 14. Reasons for the slower adoption include it being a relatively smaller update, along with an initial handful of bugs that impacted users when the update first launched.
iOS 16 will debut on Monday, June 6, at the WWDC 2022 keynote address. The new iPhone operating system will be released several months later, sometime in the early fall, alongside iPadOS 16.