iOS 26 is off to a shockingly slow start. Only 15–16% of iPhones worldwide are running any version of the update, according to StatCounter. iOS 26.1 accounts for 10.6%, 26.2 for 4.6%, and the original ...

Apple released iOS 26.2 on Friday, Dec. 12 and, alongside it, iOS 18.7.3. However, reports emerged that while it was installing nicely on iPhones that couldn’t run iOS 26, nobody else was getting it.

Since the beginning of December, Apple has been pushing iPhone users who opted to stay on iOS 18 to install iOS 26 instead. Apple started by making the iOS 18 upgrades less visible, and has now ...