The adoption rate of iOS 18.1 is twice as fast as iOS 17.1

Without a doubt, Apple has to be very proud of the week of launches it has had. We haven’t had a week like this for a long time, where on Monday iOS 18.1 was officially released and the new iMacs were presented, on Tuesday they announced the new Mac mini M4 and, finally, on Wednesday the new MacBook Pros with the M4 chip were presented. In an interview published a few hours ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that in In the same period since the launch of iOS 18.1, its adoption rate is twice as fast as with iOS 17.2 last year.

iOS 18.1 has a higher adoption rate than iOS 17.2

Normally, Apple usually publishes the adoption rates or the level of installations of new operating systems a few months after their official launch. It is a form of measure the popularity of new versions of iOS to check the speed and number of downloads of new updates. Higher adoption rates indicate that more users are installing updates for different reasons: new devices, wanting to try new features, etc. And the advantage of iOS 18.1 is the arrival of Apple Intelligence, something that can increase the adoption rate.

And everything seems to indicate that since a few hours ago in an interview for the CNBC Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, announced that the adoption rate of iOS 18.1 had doubled in just four days compared to that of iOS 17.2 in the same period of time. This is the only official information from the Big Apple regarding this data since the launch of iOS 18.1 since at the moment the website where this data can be checked has not yet been updated.

The reason for this high adoption rate? There is no doubt that one of the culprits is Apple Intelligence in those countries where it is available. However, this data must be analyzed with caution since not only the download rate matters but also the final number of devices that end up with iOS 18.1 regardless of the day they do so. Perhaps the fever of the moment is achieving a high download rate in these days close to the launch and in a few days a download plateau is achieved. We just have to wait and see the official data in a couple of weeks.