The good news is: iOS 9 is installed on 77% of active iOS devices. The bad news is: That number hasn’t changed since Apple’s last update of the statistic on February 8, and it’s up only 2% from the first of the year.
The 77% figure comes directly from Apple, via their newest chart, posted on the App Store support page. iOS 9 has been available for five months. The 77% is ahead of the 72% adoption rate for iOS 8 at the same time last year.
While adoption is stagnant at the moment, it can be expected to increase in the near future, as a new 4-inch “iPhone 5se” is expected to debut sometime in mid-March, and with that will come activations of the new device, which will run the latest version of iOS 9. In a similar period last year, iOS 8 sat at 72% in February, rising to 81% in April, due to the debut of the Apple Watch, which required an iPhone running iOS 8.
As for the other versions of iOS still being used, iOS 8 is still on 17% of active devices, down form 19% in January, while “earlier” versions of iOS sit at a 6% slice of the pie, down from 7% on January 11.
Apple is expected to release iOS 9.3 alongside the debut of the much-rumored iPhone 5se, sometime in mid-March.
