iOS 8 Adoption Rate Hits 81% of Devices Based on App Store Data

Apple’s App Store Distribution page has been updated to reflect over 80 percent of devices are now running iOS 8, based on App Store data ending April 27, 2015.

iOS 8 now sits at 81%, while iOS 7 users are at 17%, with 2% of users using older versions. These rising numbers were most likely assisted by Apple Watch, as users with iPhone 5 or higher are required to install iOS 8.2 or higher to use the new smartwatch.

To put these numbers into perspective compared to Android, only 5% of its users are running its latest version Lollipop 5.0, while only 0.4% are running the latest 5.1 update.

Apple’s most recent quarterly earnings announced 61.1 million iPhones sold, along with 12.6 million iPads.