iOS runs about 54% of US mobile web traffic and Android about 46%
Verified Confidence: high
Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.
- Commonly cited as
- "Most Americans use iPhones"
- True origin
- Statcounter Global Stats — Mobile OS Market Share United States (Sept. 2026)
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2026
- Data as of
- September 2026
- Last checked
- What the source says
Mobile Operating System Market Share in United States Of America - September 2026 iOS 53.59 % Android 46.39 %
- Method & sample
- Statcounter counts page views on the 1.5M+ sites that use its tracking code; it is a share of page views, not of users or queries.
- Drift between quote and source
- Share of mobile page views, not of devices or people
- Interest
- n/a (web analytics firm publishing free aggregate data).
Safe rephrasing
Statcounter measured US mobile web page views in September 2026 as 53.6% iOS and 46.4% Android.
Sources we opened
- Statcounter — US mobile OS share (primary)
Machine-readable: /api/claims/statcounter-us-ios-54-android-46-percent-sept-2026.json · Last checked 2026-10-16