Apple has announced that adoption of iOS 8 has reached 47%. That's just 1% higher than the company reported previously.
As measured by the App Store, iOS 8 adoption was at 46% on September 21, 2014. Apple has now updated that number to indicate that usage of its new operating system reached 47% on October 5th.
While the increase is minimal we expect to see those numbers climb steadily higher, especially with the increase in the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices reaching consumers. Before the release of iOS 8, iOS 7 adoption was over 90%.
If you haven't already updated yet, you can find more details on how to update to iOS 8 here.
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update ios 8.0.2. wifi is very slow on iPhone 5s.unable to use whatsapp imsg viber clash of clans etc.today morning i went to apple service center.they just restore the phone again.same problems is der.apple plx fix it.
Apple has made 3G as a default with an option of toggling between 3G and LTE instead of 2G and 3G in iOS7. This drains the battery on phones like 5 n 5c which have a terrible battery life anyways. In emerging markets where 3G n LTE connectivity isn't as good as developed regions iOS adoption rates are going to be miserably low. I for one, upgraded to iOS 8 and downgraded back to 7.1.2 within a day. Apple MUST resolve this issue because battery life is a bigger issue than features of iOS 8.
will never happen because they would need to put bigger battery which means thicker iphone, which means no profit margin for crooks manufacturing extra batteries, which means no bendgate=no free ads in media for isheeps
Are you sure about that? I've had that problem with iOS 7 too. It switches to 3G if I turn off LTE. it only switches to 2G only if there's no 3G signal. :(
why do i need to update to iOS 8 if it just looks almost like iOS 7? i do not need third party widgets, third party keyboards and contact shortcuts in multitasking pane. apps i use are still compatible with iOS 7.
Then you'll gonna miss SwiftKey, hand off and icloud drive. I'm on Yosemite beta 4 and so far they (with iOS 8) are awesome together! I've already been answering and calling from my macbook which I love most. Well, it's your phone, your call. ;)
This. Initial adoption was likely tied directly to iPhone 6 sales. Updates from previous versions of IOS will be hindered by lack of Jailbreak, as well as the constant statements that the next version, 8.1, will be released within weeks. Why update multiple times?
Only the 4S and higher and eligible to upgrade. Meanwhile, people are slower to change when there are significant changes they have to learn than when there's simply more common sense improvements. Plus, everyone likely to upgrade is waiting for their new phones to arrive.
Those with older devices are less likely to risk an update that might cause performance issues. There are still a lot of those devices in use. So I'm not really surprised. For those with the 5S or newer there's no reason not to update, and same for newer ipad models.
Not really. For those with a 5s it was a good idea even if you had the 6 on order. Many folks would still have a month to get used to OS 8 before receiving their newer phone. On an older iPhone I can understand being more reluctant to upgrade. But iOS 8 was developed when the testbed was still the 5s or iPad Air or retina mini. So it was meant to work well with all of those.
iOS 8.02 is still pretty buggy and not as smooth as ios 7 was. I'm not surprised people are holding back. Also all 4S users and previous iPads other than Air become super slow.
I have not had any problems with performance or stability in 8.02 that were due to the OS itself rather than apps that had not been properly updated for IOS 8. And since I use Yosemite pre release on my computer it made sense to update to IOS 8 as soon as it was possible since there are a number of features in Yosemite that interoperate with iOS 8 and not earlier iOS versions.
My 6 Plus came with iOS 8.00 but the 8.02 update needed to be installed once I had restored my iCloud backup onto it. I'm not sure at what point phones will ship with 8.02 already installed.
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