Apple released iOS 13 on September 19, followed shortly by iPadOS on September 30. And although it’s only been around 26 days since the launch, Apple’s latest version of iOS is already powering a good majority of iPhones.
The company published iOS 13 and iPadOS usage stats via the App Store support page, which is what Apple uses to track iOS usage, reports The Verge.
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The new stats aren’t anything too surprising, considering the fact that iOS updates often reach most iPhone users very quickly. iOS 12, for example, just took 23 days to hit 50%. iOS 13, on the other hand, is powering 55% of all iPhones introduced in the last four years, while 50% of all iPhones are running iOS 13.
As for iPadOS, 41% of iPads introduced in the last four years are running the latest version of iPadOS/iOS 13, while 33% of all iPads now use iPadOS.
And although iOS 13’s growth isn’t as good as that of iOS 12, when you compare it to other operating system updates–especially Android–the story is obviously a whole lot different.
PeterC
<p>Ive found iOS 13 on the ipad to be really flaky. </p><p><br></p><p>Two big issues for me are wifi and safari. The wifi issues are basically alot of dropped connections and hanging. Safari is now really buggy and freezes/crashes all the time and there's a really odd lock screen issue where the ipad suddenly defaults to the lock screen and then freezes. </p><p><br></p><p>Software development certainly isn't what it used to be. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
wocowboy
Premium Member<p>I give Apple props for the speed and number of updates they have issued for iOS 13 since its launch. This is much better than making people wait months for a single large update to take care of annoying bugs. Bugs are a fact of life in software, we just have to deal with them. I don't like them any more than anyone else does, but I appreciate that Apple is doing a good job at taking care of them at this rate. </p>
PeterC
<blockquote><em><a href="#481381">In reply to wocowboy:</a></em></blockquote><p>I understand your sentiment. But they only make OS software and apps primarily for their own hardware….. they hardly have the scale of Microsoft’s software challenges to deal with….. </p>
dontbeevil
<p>the buggiest ios evaaaaaaaaaaaa</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#481405">In reply to Greg Green:</a></em></blockquote><p>ooops there is a similar comment from an apple user</p>
BrianEricFord
<blockquote><em><a href="#481405">In reply to Greg Green:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>The truly sad part is that his (clear) trolling isn’t even well-received on a site that isn’t exactly crawling with Apple users.</p><p><br></p><p>It’s basically a universal eye-roll.</p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#481562">In reply to BrianEricFord:</a></em></blockquote><p>you know what's the sad part? that when apple/android/linux users do this on ms news, for some reasons nobody complains, it's considered normal … I do this on purpose, and it's so cute to see that suddenly everybody cares</p>
dontbeevil
<p> "<em>Every year, some pretentious tech blogger has to remind his tech-infatuated (and probably Apple-loving) readers that there’s an Android update problem.</em>"</p><p><br></p><p>Thurrot</p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#481414">In reply to codymesh:</a></em></blockquote><p>Funfact… You should thank paul, these are his own words on an android article</p>
Stooks
<p>Buggiest iOS I have ever used since my first iPhone 3G. 4 releases and still big bugs. </p><p><br></p><p>That said I still avoid Android like the plague. </p>
salman992355
<p><a href="https://www.gadgetssafe.in" target="_blank">Nice post, thanks for sharing</a></p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#481798">In reply to sannyashi:</a></em></blockquote><p>welcome to the present, but you'll never see most of this complain from apple fans and "journalists"</p>