I’m waiting for Apple to break iOS after a major release, in major ways.
Only after then Apple will take a pause, unless they don’t mind losing customers in billions.
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iOS 17 Adoption is Slower Than iOS 16 Adoption
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Only after then Apple will take a pause, unless they don’t mind losing customers in billions.
I never updated my watch to OS10. I don't like the vast majority of the changes they made so I just haven't. I am getting sick of dismissing the update request though. FFS stop bothering me.
I also feel like the updates over the last few years have been gradually making the UI less and less user friendly too. Each OS seems like it's going backwards to me. I just want my phone to do a few things really well. I'd love it if I could turn off all that sticker and extra emoji crap. Just the basic emoji's and maybe a fun gif search is good enough for me.
YESS... This. Especially on Mac. Stop with the new OS every damn year. I've hated it since they started doing it. Every 2-3 years is plenty for a computer operating system, or at the very least start doing a LTS release every 2-3 years similar to what Ubuntu does and make sure that any machine that stops getting updates lands on an LTS release as it's last OS option. Desktop computing is such a mature market now that there is just zero need for yearly OS releases.
oh man, Mountain Lion was a great looking OS.
I think I'll stick with iOS 15. 4/11% represent.
OS X 10.8 and iOS 6 were peak Apple software. I miss the days of actually looking forward to software updates before everything was hideous.
I for one haven’t updated because I’m running a 12P and after years of having an ageing iPhone crumble after updating to a new OS I decided no more. Still runs great.
iOS 17 is installed on 76 percent of iPhones released in the last four years, according to newly released iOS 17 adoption statistics provided today by Apple. This is the first time that Apple has given us iOS 17 installation numbers since the operating system was released last September.
20 percent of iPhones released in the last four years are still running iOS 16, while four percent run an earlier operating system. Of all active iPhones, 66 percent are running iOS 17, 23 percent are running iOS 16, and 11 percent are running an earlier version of iOS.
Apple also shared iPadOS installation numbers. 61 percent of iPads introduced in the last four years have iPadOS 17 installed, while 29 percent have iPadOS 16, and 10 percent are running an earlier version of iPadOS.
Among all active iPads, 53 percent have iPadOS 17, 29 percent have iPadOS 16, and 18 percent run an earlier version of the iPadOS software.
Around this time last year, 81 percent of all iPhones introduced in the last four years had iOS 16 installed, so iOS 17 adoption has been slower. Only 53 percent of iPads were running iPadOS 16 in February 2023, however, so the pace of iPadOS 17 adoption has been faster than iPadOS 16 adoption.
iOS 17 was first released in September, and Apple has released three major updates so far. A fourth major update, iOS 17.4, is set to come out in March.
Article Link: iOS 17 Adoption is Slower Than iOS 16 Adoption
Oh man, I would love to be on the latest macOS, but things don't work that way! I update only some of the devices. Because new OS and apps is always removing functionality. e.g. I have iPad mini with old iOS, so I connect to my other Mac with also old OS. This is because I have huge books library and on the new Books app, I can't edit ****. Can't do author changes, groupings, collections, covers, none of the metadata. Wheres on the old OS I could do all that and some more. So for that reading devise I keep old iOS and manually manage my books and pdfs. Its also good to have older mac lying around, as I can also manage some old iOS games, upload them to my even older iPads or iPhones. Try doing that with new mac 
So I would love to use latest os on all my devises, but the stupudity of some features prevents me to do that. So latest os is only on my iPhone and one of the macs...
So I would love to use latest os on all my devises, but the stupudity of some features prevents me to do that. So latest os is only on my iPhone and one of the macs...
Well, on my 13 mini iOS17 isn't that great. Had some nights when it didn't charge (cable and wireless) - sometimes there was even a gap in the battery timeline when nothing was logged. As if the phone was turned off completely for a couple of hours.
On many occasions after an automatic switch from sleep-focus or DND-focus to normal focus, the phone won't ring when a call comes in. I have to flip the side-switch from off to on and back to get ringtones back.
Or maybe ignore those who complain about annual releases. iOS is already boring enough as is, Apple is big enough to have enough programmers to introduce new features *and* release high quality software without too many bugs
Danger!! I updated my iP 11pro and iOS 17 slowed down my device remarkably - in turn there was no positive change iOS17 added. I on a 15pro now - I should have left my iP11pro at iOS16.
It’s not always a negative reason that people don’t upgrade. My wife hates change and doesn’t like me doing OS updates on her phone. It’s nothing to do with the state of the OS really. I’m sure there’s a lot of people in that camp (elderly, non-techie types)
Hmm did it slow it down or was it the usual post-upgrade Apple symptom, where your phone runs slower for a couple days because they do only they know what in the background, and then it all comes back to normal?
iOS 17 has massive improvements over iOS 16 contrary to your assertion. Whether they mean anything to you in day to day operation is another story
My old xs max was running iOS 17 and running like a champ. I am puzzled why your iPhone 11 has had so much trouble with it.
Maybe it’s because every update people feel slows down the device. Also those with 64gb iPhones can’t update with out deleting apps, photos etc and Apple hasn’t automated this process. Could it also be that people have turned off all notifications due to apps using them as advertising so it doesn’t bother them.
I have set software update to only check for iOS 16 Developer Beta so as to not get any notification about a new update...
I would downgrade iPhone 11 Pro Max to iOS 13.7 and iPhone 14 Pro Max to iOS 16.1/iOS 16.1.1 should Apple re-sign/re-enable downgrades to older versions other than the one next to the latest available version...
Maybe, which bugs are important and how many exist depends on how you use 17. I guess if you only email and TikTok, then there were probably not very many bugs.