iOS 17 uptake is slower than iOS 16 – here’s why some people are waiting to download it

It’s official: iOS 17 adoption is trailing behind iOS 16 adoption this time last year.According to Apple’s own data (as spotted by MacRumors), 76% of all iPhone models released in the last four years that completed a transaction in the App Store on February 4 were running iOS 17 (or a later version of it). By comparison, last year’s equivalent survey determined that 81% of transaction-completing iPhone users had downloaded iOS 16 by February 4, 2023.Admittedly, 5% doesn’t seem like a steep drop, but given that the number of active iPhones released in the last four years must surely reach into the hundreds of …

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