About 81% of iPhones are now running iOS 16

Apple's iOS always arrives on devices faster than Android, thanks to iOS being iOS, while Android has different levels of manufacturer skins that need to be adapted to new versions. It also undoubtedly helps that Apple makes both the hardware and the software at the same time.

So you won’t be surprised to hear that iOS 16, which was first released last September, is already installed on 81% of iPhones. If we limit ourselves to iPhones launched in recent years, that number grows to 90%.

13% of all iPhones (8% of iPhones released in the past four years) run iOS 15, with the rest launching some earlier version.

On the tablet side, 71% of iPads are already running iPadOS 16, followed by 20% running iPadOS 15. For iPads released within the past four years, iPadOS 16 once again gained 76% of the market share, followed by iPadOS 15 at 18%.

For comparison, Google's most recent data came back in April, where they showed Android 13 (the latest version, launched last August) reaching 12% of all devices.