Introduction

iPhone Users Statistics: Apple’s iPhone has become a cornerstone of the global smartphone market, renowned for its premium design, strong brand loyalty, and deep integration within the Apple ecosystem. Since its 2007 debut, the iPhone has cultivated a vast and diverse user base worldwide. This report explores key iPhone user statistics, including demographics, geographic distribution, market share, usage patterns, and purchasing behaviour.

By analyzing current trends and historical data, the report offers valuable insights into consumer preferences and mobile technology adoption, serving as a strategic resource for businesses, developers, and industry stakeholders seeking to navigate the evolving digital landscape.

The number of iPhone users in the United States increased to ***** million as of February 2022, partially credited to its price reductions on older smartphone models and the retreat of a major competitor, Huawei, from the market, according to the source. Is loyalty the core to Apple’s success? The iPhone is manufactured by Apple and has a considerable share of the smartphone market in the United States. Apple’s ability to build a trustworthy relationship with its customers is one reason for the success of the iPhone. Satisfaction and brand loyalty for Apple smartphones has been consistently high among U.S. customers.

How many people have iPhones in the United States?

In 2022, there were more than 120 million iPhone users in the United States, accounting for nearly 49 percent of all smartphone users in the country. Overall, nearly 300 million people in the United States use a smartphone, which means that roughly 90 percent of the country’s population has access to a smartphone. Apple iPhone worldwide

As of 2022, Apple’s iOS operating system had a share of close to 60 percent of the mobile operating system market in the United States, the country with the highest market share both for the iPhone and the iOS operating system. Apple did not enjoy such a dominant market position in any other country, yet remained one of the top three smartphone vendors worldwide, selling more than 200 million iPhones every year. Taken together, the top three smartphone vendors Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi accounted for over half of the annual smartphone shipments during the second quarter of 2022.

iPhone is Apple’s main revenue source The iPhone is Apple’s main source of revenue, consistently generating around 50 percent of the company's sales worldwide. Apple does offer a multitude of other products across a variety of consumer electronics categories, including laptops, smartwatches, and tech-related services such as its App Store, Apple Pay, and cloud storage.

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Introduction

iPhone Vs Android Statistics: The iPhone-Android rivalry has been one of the leading forces shaping the smartphone industry for over a decade. By 2024, this competition will continue influencing user preferences, market dynamics, and technological advancements.

By 2024, the rivalry between iPhone and Android continued to shape the smartphone industry through clear numerical contrasts. Android commanded roughly 70.9 percent of the global mobile OS market, while iOS held about 28 percent. In the United States, iPhone usage remained strong with approximately 57.7 percent market share, leaving Android at around 42.1 percent.

Worldwide, there were nearly 4 billion active Android users compared to roughly 1.5 billion iOS users. Apple shipped around 226 million iPhones in 2024, a 1 percent decline from the previous year, within a total smartphone shipment volume of approximately 1.22 billion units. In 2024, Android devices represented about 76 percent of smartphone shipments in Q1, with iOS at 19 percent.

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According to DeviceAtlas's data, Apple's iPhone 7 was the most popular iPhone model in 2020 with a ***** percent share in the overall global web usage . Among the other Apple smartphone models,iPhone 6S, iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 6 enjoyed large share as well in that year. Apple was the vendor with the highest most smartphones sold globally as of the fourth quarter of 2020. This trend has been observed for the past couple of years, except for the third quarter of 2019, when Huawei generated more smartphone sales than Apple and therefore, ranked second.

 What part of Apple’s revenue comes from iPhones?  

iPhone sales composed more than half of Apple’s global revenue in the first quarter of 2021. This was a large increase from the quarter before, but the peak was reached in the first quarter of 2018, when nearly ** percent of the company’s revenue came from selling smartphones.

 Apple Pay   

With digital payments getting more and more popular, the number of Apple Pay users has also increased in recent years. Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by apple, initially released in October 2014. As of September 2019, nearly half of global iPhone users were using the service.

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In 2020, the average in-app spending for iPhone users in the United States amounted to 138 U.S. dollars, up 38 percent from the previous year. Between 2015 and 2020, the average in-app spending on iOS experienced a constant upward trend. In 2020, mobile gaming apps were the category with the highest average in-app spending for U.S. iPhone users.

As of January 2025, around ** percent of the data linked to users collected by iOS apps was used by app publishers to integrate their product's functionalities. In comparison, ** percent of app data not directly linked to users had the same function. Collecting analytics data was the second most common reason for apps to collect iOS users' data, while only ** percent of identifiable user data and ** percent of non-identifiable users' data went to improve or integrate third-party advertising services.

As of January 2025, around 13.7 percent of paid iOS apps admitted collecting data from users engaging with their mobile products. In comparison, approximately 53 percent of free-to-download iOS apps reported they collect private data from users worldwide, while approximately 86 percent of paid apps have not declared whether they collect users' privacy data.

According to a January 2022 analysis of the leading dating apps downloaded from the Apple App Store, the Badoo mobile app was indexed as collecting the largest number of data types from its users' activity. Bumble and HER ranked second, with an index value of close to **, respectively. Grindr had a reported index value of **, while market leader Tinder was indexed with a value of ****.

Percentage of smartphone users by selected smartphone use habits in a typical day.

North America registered the highest mobile data consumption per connection in 2023, with the average connection consuming ** gigabytes per month. This figure is set to triple by 2030, driven by the adoption of data intensive activities such as 4K streaming.

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Android maintained its position as the leading mobile operating system worldwide in the first quarter of 2025 with a market share of about ***** percent. Android's closest rival, Apple's iOS, had a market share of approximately ***** percent during the same period. The leading mobile operating systems Both unveiled in 2007, Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS have evolved through incremental updates introducing new features and capabilities. The latest version of iOS, iOS 18, was released in September 2024, while the most recent Android iteration, Android 15, was made available in September 2023. A key difference between the two systems concerns hardware - iOS is only available on Apple devices, whereas Android ships with devices from a range of manufacturers such as Samsung, Google and OnePlus. In addition, Apple has had far greater success in bringing its users up to date. As of February 2024, ** percent of iOS users had iOS 17 installed, while in the same month only ** percent of Android users ran the latest version. The rise of the smartphone From around 2010, the touchscreen smartphone revolution had a major impact on sales of basic feature phones, as the sales of smartphones increased from *** million units in 2008 to **** billion units in 2023. In 2020, smartphone sales decreased to **** billion units due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Apple, Samsung, and lately also Xiaomi, were the big winners in this shift towards smartphones, with BlackBerry and Nokia among those unable to capitalize.

The statistic shows the number of Apple iPhone users by device family in the United States from ************* to *************. In *************, there were **** million users of iPhone 5/5S/5C in the United States.

In March 2024, the Swedish electronic identification BankID was the most downloaded mobile app for iPhone users in Norway, with over 113 thousand downloads. Shopping app Temu followed, with 95 thousand downloads, while the mobile app of for food product information Frifor was the third most downloaded app for iPhone users in Norway in the examined period.

In September 2022, social media app BeReal was the most downloaded app on iPhones from users in France, with approximately 438 thousand downloads. WhatsApp Messenger ranked second, with more than 327 thousand downloads in the examined period, gaming app X HERO ranked third with around 325 thousand downloads in the examined period.