Even though Apple's newest operating system, iOS 8, was hyped up and highly-anticipated, looking at the charts, it seems that many iOS users opted to avoid the the new OS. Since its release in September only 56 percent of Apple device users actually downloaded the update.

On Tuesday, Apple released a report stating that since October, only nine percent of people have updated their operating system to iOS 8.

The operating system was released on September 17 and was widely accepted by fans right after the launch. But a few weeks after the release, the downloads started slowing down.

Four days after it was released, it was downloaded by about 46 percent of people who visited Apple's App store, but two weeks later, only one percent of people who downloaded it was added to that figure.

Apple introduced iOS 8 along with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and when compared with the number of people who downloaded the iOS 7, the latest operating system is behind by almost 20 percent.

According to Mixpanel, a mobile analytics company which keeps track of Apple's iOS adoption, around the same time this year, about 75.5 percent of iPhone's were already running the iOS 7.

Meanwhile, Apple blogger John Gruber, said that the reluctance to download the iOS 8 is because it takes up a lot of storage space.

An update to the new operating system takes up 5GB of free space and takes quite a long while before it is successfully installed.

Analysts, however, believe that people's hesitation in downloading the new operating system is because it encountered several technical issues, which led the company to release iOS 8.0.1 the following week.

But the Version 8.0.1 was an even greater miss for Apple since it brought about some major bugs, which affected network connection abilities and rendered the Touch ID fingerprint sensor dysfunctional.

In response, Apple has again released a newer version of the operating system, the iOS 8.0.2, which seems to have addressed most of the glitches, but even with the update, some users still reported having problems with their Bluetooth connections.