{"id":2824,"date":"2015-11-04T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:27:25","slug":"ios-9-already-installed-on-66-of-compatible-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"iOS 9 already installed on 66% of compatible devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s latest iOS 9 software has already been installed on 66 percent of compatible devices less than three months after it made its public debut, the Cupertino company\u2019s latest adoption figures reveal. Meanwhile, only a quarter of modern\u00a0devices are still running iOS 8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To save you having to do the math yourself, that means two out of three iOS devices that are capable of running iOS 9 have already been updated \u2014 which is pretty impressive when you consider the first iOS 9 release wasn\u2019t made public until September 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iOS-9-adoption-Nov-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2825\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iOS-9-adoption-Nov-15.jpg\" alt=\"iOS-9-adoption-Nov-15\" width=\"660\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 50 percent of compatible devices were updated to iOS 9 after just one week of public availability, but uptake\u00a0slowed somewhat after that, perhaps due to concerns about speed and reliability.\u00a0It\u2019s thought the recent iOS 9.1 update is responsible for a recent boost in upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>The release not only improves performance and stability, but it also adds a whole host of new emoji characters, and makes enhancements to the new\u00a0Live Photos on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. Apple has already begun beta testing iOS 9.2, which makes improvements to Safari that\u00a0enables extensions in third-party apps.<\/p>\n<p>Just 25 percent of compatible devices are still running a form of iOS 8 as things stand, while only 9 percent are running an earlier version of iOS.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/app-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APPLE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s latest iOS 9 software has already been installed on 66 percent of compatible devices less than three months after it made its public debut, the Cupertino company\u2019s latest adoption figures reveal. Meanwhile, only a quarter of modern\u00a0devices are still running iOS 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-software","tag-apple","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}