iOS 16 adoption hits 69% thanks to nice features, here’s how that compares to Android

iOS 16 adoption numbers impress

Mixpanel is a third-party analytics company that bases its iOS adoption data on data from apps that use Mixpanel technology. Apple itself tracks iOS adoption via its developer website, but the company hasn’t yet updated that new data to reflect the launch of iOS 16.

Here’s the current breakdown of iOS software adoption, according to the Mixpanel data:

As always, it’s interesting to compare how iOS adoption compares to Android adoption. Google has signficantly scaled back the pace at which it updates this data, however. It only offers adoption numbers via its Android Studio developer tool, no longer readily publishing data via its website.

In August, it was estimated that the nearly one-year-old release of Android 12 was running on 13.3% of devices; an estimated 27% of devices were running Android 11 at this time. Google released Android 13 later in August, but no adoption data is yet available for that update.