iOS 11 is currently running on 59 percent of compatible devices, gaining 7 percent from the last time Apple reported the figures in early November.
By comparison, 33 percent of devices are running last year’s iOS 10, while the remaining 8 percent are still using a previous version of Apple’s mobile operating system.
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Apple’s stats are based on visits to the App Store on Monday, December 4. Likely driving upgrade figures was the latest iOS update, iOS 11.2, which arrived in the middle of November — bringing a fix to an issue causing the iPhone X’s Super Retina HD displays to become unresponsive in cold weather, along with solutions to Live Photos and video capturing problems.
Despite the ground year Apple is having, however, iOS 11 is still seeing slower adoption than its iOS 10 predecessor. By this time last year, iOS 10 was running on approximately 63 percent of supported devices.
A whole lot better than Android
Still, it’s a massive gulf from the kind of adoption figures that Android devices “enjoy.” As can be seen by the latest Android figures, the newest Android version — Oreo, released to the public in August this year — is only installed on a minuscule 0.3 percent of devices.
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While adoption figures don’t necessarily mean too much to the average user, they do have implications when it comes to both the security of devices (since weaknesses can get patched more comprehensively that way) and for developers, who can count on the majority of users having access to the latest features.
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