Apple certainly has to be very proud of the week of releases it had. It's been a long time since we had a week like this where on Monday was officially published iOS 18.1 and the new iMacs were introduced, on Tuesday they announced the new Mac mini M4 and finally on Wednesday the new MacBook Pros with the M4 chip were introduced. In an interview published a few hours ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that in In the same period since the release of iOS 18.1, its adoption rate is twice as fast as iOS 17.2 last year.
iOS 18.1 has a higher adoption rate than iOS 17.2
Typically, Apple publishes adoption rates or the level of installations of new operating systems a few months after the official launch of these. It is a way of measuring the popularity of new iOS versions to check how fast and how many new updates are downloaded. Higher adoption rates indicate that more users are installing updates for different reasons: new devices, desire to try out 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, Apple's CEO, announced that The adoption rate of iOS 18.1 in just four days had doubled 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 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, these data must be analyzed with caution since it is not only the rate of downloads that 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 rate of downloads in these days close to the launch and in a few days a plateau of downloads is reached. We just have to wait and see the official data in a couple of weeks.