The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years(daringfireball.net)
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The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizarrely_low
1. Apple froze the Safari user agent in iOS 26 to be the same as iOS 18.6, so stats websites are reporting under-reporting.
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2. Apple is for some reason rolling out/'recommending'/'pushing' automatic updates in iOS 26 than in previous releases.