There Are 1.8 Billion Devices in Active Use
According to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, the company now boasts an installed base of 1.8 billion devices globally — a number that could surpass two billion this year.
Cook didn’t break down exactly which devices those are, but it’s fair to say that the bulk of that number is made up of iPhone users, as the company shared last year that there are over a billion iPhones in active use. To be clear, Apple sold its billionth iPhone in 2016, but it took until early 2020 before that translated into a billion active devices.
Over the past year, 150 million new Apple devices came online, so Apple only needs to increase that trends by about 35 percent to hit the two billion mark before the end of 2022.