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CTOnews.com, Oct. 11 (Xinhua)-- Apple's iPhone is still the favorite smartphone for American teenagers, according to data shared by investment firm Piper Sandler in its semiannual survey of American teenagers today. According to the survey, 87 per cent of teenagers surveyed have an iPhone, while 88 per cent expect their next mobile phone to be an iPhone.

The rate of iPhone ownership among American teenagers has not changed since last year, but in the past decade, teenagers' interest in iPhone has soared. As early as October 2013, 55% of teenagers said they had iPhone, while 24% of teenagers had Android devices.

CTOnews.com notes that the rate of Apple Watch ownership is also growing, but at a slower pace. 34 per cent of American teenagers surveyed had Apple Watch, up from 31 per cent last year. Ten per cent of teenagers surveyed said they planned to buy Apple Watch in the next six months, down from 16 per cent in the fall of 2022. Apple is the most popular watch brand, beating Rolex, Casio, Jiaming and Cartier.

Apple Pay is the most commonly used payment app for US teenagers, with 42 per cent of respondents saying they had used the service in the past month, beating Cash App (27 per cent), Venmo (20 per cent) and PayPal (10 per cent).

Apple doesn't dominate streaming music, ranking second only to Spotify. 70 per cent of American teenagers surveyed said they used Spotify as their music service, while only a little more than 30 per cent used Apple Music. 46 per cent of paying subscribers choose Spotify, while only 30 per cent choose Apple Music.

Piper Sandler also asked American teenagers about the use of iCloud Private Relay and found that it increased in the second half of 2023. Thirty-seven percent of the teenagers surveyed said they used iCloud Private Relay, while another 17 percent said they were interested in using the service in the next six months. Earlier this year, only 24% of the teenagers surveyed used iCloud Private Relay, which requires an iCloud subscription fee.

Piper Sandler conducts a survey of teenagers every six months and has released these reports for more than 10 years. In the fall report, 9193 teenagers with an average age of 15.7 from 49 states took part in the survey.

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