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6 sourced facts about mobile apps, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Answerabout 3.6 hours per day
Across iOS and Google Play, people spent a combined 5.3 trillion hours in apps in 2025, a new all-time high.
Source: Sensor Tower, State of Mobile 2026 (2025) sensortower.com
Answer73%
YouTube was the most widely used platform Pew asked about; 15% of teens say they're on it almost constantly.
Source: Pew Research Center, Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 (2024) pewresearch.org
Answer35%
Pew's first smartphone measurement in May 2011 found about a third of adults owned one; it passed 90% by 2023.
Source: Pew Research Center (2011) pewresearch.org
Answerover 2 million
Apple combines human review with AI; it also blocked more than 1.1 billion fraudulent account creations that year.
Source: Apple Newsroom (2025) apple.com
Answer$167 billion
Spending jumped 10.6% in a year, driven by non-game apps; games still brought in close to $82 billion.
Source: Sensor Tower, State of Mobile 2026 (2025) sensortower.com
Answer$1.3 trillion
Most of it was physical goods and services like food delivery; digital goods and services were $131 billion.
Source: Apple Newsroom (study by Analysis Group economists) (2024) apple.com