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Early iOS 9 Adoption Rate in Line With iOS 8 Adoption

motulist said:
I don't see an iCloud Drive folder anywhere. I'm on iOS 9 and I have iCloud turned on in the settings app. How do I get the iCloud Drive folder to appear?
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I'm not sure where to enable it as I haven't gone back to investigate. When I did the upgrade, iOS just ask me to enable iCloud Drive folder or not and I chose yes. I wonder if you have to enable it in your Mac first as that what I always had turned on before iOS 9.
 
"iOS 9 has received 12% adoption in the last 24 hour"

How many was on Lollipop after 6 months, 5%?
 
For once I won't be updating the first week it's out... No point in upgrading my phone when it's going to get traded in a week from now for a 6s+
 
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I'm liking iOS 9, so far no real complains, I have it in my iPad and iPhone, both transitions were with ease. Really dig the two screen, would be even better when more apps can go side by side at the same time.
 
localman said:
There's a few ways to read that second graph. Here's mine based on my personal experience: the iOS 7 update was so painful that I am much more cautious to read others' experiences now before upgrading. That release greatly reduced my iPhone 4S performance, and I ended up not appreciating the UI changes either.

iOS 9 looks to be a good update from what I've read so far, but I'll probably wait a few more days.
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I think for a lot of people the dramatic increase for iOS 7 was the dramatic change in UI.

I had a 4 at the time so I'm sure my experience was more painful than yours, but 7 was still a breath of fresh air compared to the previous iOS versions.

Another thought is that iOS 8 had the atrocious 4-something GB download which was barely possible to manage on a 16GB phone for a lot of people. Maybe that memory is affecting iOS 9 downloads at the moment, despite the much more manageable 1GB download.
 
snebes said:
What are you using to sync your calendar and address book? iCloud? Gmail? I don't see why that stops you from updating your phone sans computer.
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I have been using iTunes to sync my calendar and address book between my phone and the computer.

iTunes versions older than yesterday's release are now prevented from communicating with iOS 9 devices.

Yesterday's iTunes release now requires a new computer to use it. Apple just implemented an unnecessary change that prevents me from being able to update to iOS 9 on my phone and still sync with my computer, or even have my computer aware that the phone is there.

iOS 9 is not worth buying another computer.

Apple has a history of trying to force consumers to buy new hardware. This latest move is perhaps the most ridiculous maneuvers yet.

It's nice in the PC world. Your devices and computers are supported until you decide to upgrade.

Unfortunately, my Mac needs to remain the primary syncing machine for now.

But I've got the other part of my life moving back towards Windows and Android. The support and compatibility can't be beat.

I've put some old PC's back in use, and installed Windows 10 on them, and they work great. My newer Macs were abandoned by Apple's OS a long time ago.

This added method of forcing you to buy a newer computer just because your phone got updated is ridiculous.

If they want more money from me, they'll have to earn it with better machines, more reasonable prices, and better support.

It's ridiculous that the only thing preventing OS 10.8.x or later from installing on my Mac Pro is Apple's blessing and a couple entries in a file. It is nice that Windows 10 installed on it without a single complaint (64-BIT Windows 10).

When the projects that I'm involved with that require OS X and iPhone syncing are done, I'll be abandoning ship. Sorry Apple, done with this game.
 
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My iphone 6 will die with 8.4.1. Apple fooled me 2 times before with ios7 and 8 on my 4s/5.
Don't see the point of upgrading, it will make the phone slower. Plus there are no killer features on ios9.
 
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Needs work.

Took a bunch of photos tonight. Tried to email them. Still could only do 5 at a time.
Sent in two batches.
First batch arrived OK and was able to preview and save all of them.
Second batch you cannot see the photos and had to try and save the icon individually for each photo.

Pain in the tush!
 
flyinmac said:
Being unable to sync iOS 9 with my Mac running 10.7.5 is the end for my updating.

I'm not buying a new computer just to install iOS 9 on my phone. That's ridiculous.

iTunes 12.3 is required for syncing. As of yesterday, the download link said 10.7.5 or later. But upon installing iTunes 12.3, I was given an error that said 10.8.5 is required.

Keeping my address book and calendar in sync is crucial to the reason I got the iPhone in the first place.

But, running iOS 9 on a phone does not justify replacing a computer. I'll stick with iOS 8.4.1. And I doubt I'll buy any future iPhones. I have no intention of buying a new computer in the foreseeable future.
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I'm able to sync with my 10.6.8 machine after upgrading my phone to iOS 9. I have iTunes 11.4 on the Mac.
 
iOS 9 has brought WiFi and LTE to a screeching halt. I'm always getting disconnected error when i try to load pages
 
Have no intention or ability to upgrade to iOS 9 because two of my three desktops at home and work can not run iTunes 12.3!
Fail Apple!
But get this... All these computers can run Windows 10 flawlessly. I'm not moving to windows.
 
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I was traveling today and was trying to send Messages mostly while on Verizon (iPad Air). I'd get a few sent and received then it would fail to send. The progress bar would get about 7/8 of the way across and stop. I did a 3 year old trick I found and turned off Messages, then power down, rebooted, and then log Messages back in. It would work again for a while then stop. I've never had any trouble with Messages on wireless, but haven't used the cellular to send them much, and, of course, iOS9 just happened. Wasn't able to try it on wireless while traveling, because I wasn't in any civilized terminal where the wireless was free...I'm looking at YOU, Minneapolis-St. Paul. I wasn't trying to send many messages when I was in Denver, which has really nice free wireless. Even the little town of 10,000 whose airport I ended up at has free wireless.
 
No problems on my 6 or iPad Air yet. Really liking the tweaks in features and that small download. Quite a trick to have such a significant size reduction with new features. Thanks for the storage space upgrade.
 
iSee said:
I'm able to sync with my 10.6.8 machine after upgrading my phone to iOS 9. I have iTunes 11.4 on the Mac.
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So you're saying that you upgraded to iOS 9 and that you can connect your iPhone to your Mac with the usb cable, and iTunes 11.4 is seeing your iOS 9 phone and syncing it's calendar and address book with the built-in Mac OS apps?

Sounds like you're the only one. If iTunes 12.2 can't see an iOS 9 phone that's directly plugged into the computer, I'm curious how iTunes 11.4 is seeing it.
 
What is surprising is that iOS 9 adoption is not outpacing iOS 8 adoption because iOS 9 has a much smaller installation size. While iOS 8 required 4.58 GB to install, iOS 9 only requires 1.3 GB, making it much more accessible to users who have little space open on their devices.
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Is this the case for devices still on iOS 7?

My wife never bothered to upgrade from iOS 7 because of space issues (OTA update was giant). She still reported that she couldn't upgrade to iOS 9 for the same reason. I checked, and she had 3GB free.

So I (finally) just plugged her phone into iTunes and upgraded it.

The clean-install IPSW file for iOS9 is 1.8GB, whereas the one for iOS 8 is 1.9GB. No huge difference.

Are we sure that those users that were "stuck" on iOS7 due to having less than 3GB free can actually now upgrade? The situation seemed to be exactly the same for my wife as it was before.
 
pika2000 said:
All iPhone users so far that I have met, that are lay people, have a notification badge on their Settings icon, which means they have not applied whatever OS updates available (and if I check further, they pretty much have whatever OS version that came with their phones out of the box).
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Not to discredit your first hand account. However, I have to believe it is merely anecdotal. I have to believe that the "lay" iPhone users must be few and far between because these update adoption rates are unheard of (outside of iPhone). New iPhones (be they 5s, 6, 6s, etc) will contribute to the overall adoption rate, but 90% adoption among eligible devices in 1 year?
 
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