iOS 26 adoption lags far behind predecessors four months after launch

iOS 26
Nearly four months after its release, iOS 26 is seeing significantly slower adoption than previous versions, according to Statcounter data, as the majority of iPhone users continue to remain on iOS 18.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:‎Statcounter has been tracking usage data for browsers, OS versions, and search engines for years.
And its latest reporting on iOS 26 adoption tells a very clear story: the vast majority of iPhone users are still running iOS 18.
Global iOS version data as of