Fewer users are upgrading to iOS 15, so Apple is making it harder to stay on iOS 14 - SoyaCincau

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In June last year, 85% of iPhone users were on the latest iOS version. This time round, only 63% of users have made the jump to iOS 15.

, like a notifications shade revamp, a focus mode as well as more information about the photos and videos you’ve taken in the Photos app. However, not everyone wanted to update to iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 of course, and soThat decision appears to bitten back at Apple though, as more people than ever before are using older versions of iOS and iPadOS.

That’s a large percentage of non-iOS 15 users, especially when you consider that Apple have made their latest operating system available on devices as old as the iPhone 6s, launched in 2015. In comparison, by December of 2020 iOS 14 had an adoption rate of 81% on iPhones in the last four years, with 72% of all iPhones switching to iOS 14. That number would rise to 90% for iPhones in the last four years and 85% of all iPhones by June of 2021.

The numbers aren’t much better when looking at iPads either. Apple’s statistics show that less than half of all Apple tablets use their latest tablet operating system despite being available for devices as old as 2014’s Apple iPad Air 2. The figures aren’t much better when taking into account only tablets from the last four years, with just a 57% adoption rate for iPadOS 15.

Interestingly, Apple seems to be pushing users staying on iOS 14 towards switching to iOS 15. According to dhinakg on GitHub, when he tried to update to iOS 14.8.1, the option to update wasn’t available despite Apple’s earlier promises of being able to stay on iOS 14. Instead, he was greeted to just an option to update to iOS 15.2. As it turns out, the option to update to iOS 14.8.1 still existed, but needed him to go through a number of hoops.

 

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