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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mrinal - October 8, 2014 at 11:00am
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.
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Invasive - October 7, 2014 at 6:28pm
Ios 8 ruined my girl's 4s. Soooooo laggy now. Instead of get scammed into a new iphone due to lame ios8, she's getting a new android
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gamerscul9870 - October 7, 2014 at 8:06pm
and you can't downgrade why or bothered to checking whatbchanged? That's what you get for assuming it's good without checking.
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Bugged Out - October 7, 2014 at 1:40pm
I'm still waiting for Fapple to quit foisting betas on us. Until then I'll stick with 7.
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James Cameron - October 7, 2014 at 12:03pm
No wonder.. People learned from iOS 6 upgrade that it can as well get slower and worse...
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Rishi - October 7, 2014 at 6:47am
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.
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dave vangina - October 7, 2014 at 8:05am
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
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iAmMe - October 7, 2014 at 9:04am
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. :(
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iOS 7 is good enough - October 7, 2014 at 6:18am
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.
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iAmMe - October 7, 2014 at 9:09am
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. ;)
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Wez - October 7, 2014 at 10:03am
SwiftKey is no reason to update... There really far better keyboards available within cydia. And the haptic feedback is missing also
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iOS 7 is good enough - October 8, 2014 at 1:35am
i don't use iCloud tho, so i won't have access to these features ;)
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Wez - October 7, 2014 at 6:18am
The uptake will increase substantially once ios8 jailbreak is released!!
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matrixmaniac - October 7, 2014 at 8:55am
Very true! I'm waiting for the Jailbreak :-)
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Gern Blansten - October 7, 2014 at 12:44pm
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?
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NoGoodNick - October 7, 2014 at 5:59am
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.
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tommyy - October 7, 2014 at 5:01am
Apple need to fix critical bug: ios8 reset all settings wipes iWork documents in iCloud drive.
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zetaprime - October 7, 2014 at 4:03am
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.
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Great! - October 7, 2014 at 3:46am
Not surprising. I'm waiting for 8.1 before upgrading from 8.
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zetaprime - October 7, 2014 at 4:05am
8.02 is safe and is a smaller and quicker update than the larger point releases that involve pretty much a download of the entire OS.
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odedoo1 - October 7, 2014 at 3:29am
Unless you got a mew iPhone 6 then Only fools upgraded to iOS 8 before waiting a week to find out if it's cool or not to upgrade.
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zetaprime - October 7, 2014 at 4:10am
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.
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Amigo - October 7, 2014 at 3:17am
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.
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zetaprime - October 7, 2014 at 4:14am
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.
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JuggaloRazzam - October 7, 2014 at 3:07am
After a jailbreak is released for iOS 8 then I'll update, wonder if there will be a big jump in adoption then :P
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gamerscul9870 - October 7, 2014 at 2:51am
With a new record selling iPhones this year compared to last, how is it less adapted this time if the 6 and 6 plus automatically have ios 8 installed?
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fairichi - October 7, 2014 at 2:53am
Because people who are not getting the new iPhone aren't upgrading like they was for iOS 7
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zetaprime - October 7, 2014 at 4:18am
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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