Better late than never. iOS 14 officially arrived on September 16. We say officially because we had four months with betas for both developers and public. The download rate In the first weeks it was acceptable, as we can see in the graph above. However, in early October it stalled rising just 2% per week. Though downloads were record at first They are not so much compared to iOS 13 last year around this time. Thanks to this monitoring we can ensure that currently there are more devices with iOS 14 than with iOS 13 and iOS 14 adoption rate amounts to 46,54%.
iOS 14 improves its adoption rate and almost reaches 50%
The new operating system brought a greater level of customization with the arrival of widgets on the home screen. In addition, the system received minor modifications in the user interface to be less intrusive in calls or the arrival of the application library. These changes for many users are already a compelling reason to proceed with the change from iOS 13 to iOS 14. Rate the download rate and the rate of change from one operating system to another gives us an idea of the level of generational change and adoption of a new operating system. On the other hand, we can compare this data with that of last year where it went from iOS 12 to iOS 13 at the same time.
Currently, iOS 14 has almost reached 50% of devices that I currently know they monitor. In fact, and to be more exact, 46,54% already have the newest operating system installed on their devices. While there is still 46,16% who still have iOS 13. 7,29% have versions prior to iOS 13 installed since they stopped receiving updates or have decided not to update to higher versions.
Let's see a comparison with the data from last year. The moment in which the overtaking of the new operating system versus the old one with iOS 12 and iOS 13 came on October 7. However, with iOS 14 it occurred today, October 28. For comparison we also see that iOS 13 was released on September 19, 2019, while iOS 14 was released on September 16, 2020.
Ultimately, the adoption of the new operating system experienced an exponential increase in the first two weeks it was available. However, a deceleration of this number of downloads has been noticed throughout October. Although we can confirm that iOS 14 is already on more devices than iOS 13 touching 50%.