HarmonyOS 7 beta reaches 0.17% of Huawei devices as old API versions near zero
Huawei published its latest API version distribution data for HarmonyOS devices on Thursday, and the numbers tell a clear story: the ecosystem is consolidating fast around the current generation, and the HarmonyOS 7 beta has already begun registering on real hardware.
As of June 19, 2026 — the dataset refreshes roughly every 15 days — here is how HarmonyOS device share breaks down by API version:
| HarmonyOS version | API version | Device share |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0.0 Beta1 | 26.0.0 Beta1 | 0.17% |
| 6.1.1 | 6.1.1 (24) | 34.40% |
| 6.1.0 | 6.1.0 (23) | 60.20% |
| 6.0.2 | 6.0.2 (22) | 3.67% |
| 6.0.1 | 6.0.1 (21) | 0.72% |
| 6.0.0 | 6.0.0 (20) | 0.08% |
| 5.1.1 | 5.1.1 (19) | 0.21% |
| 5.1.0 | 5.1.0 (18) | 0.11% |
| 5.0.0 | 5.0.5 (17) | 0.42% |
| 5.0.0 | 5.0.4 (16) | 0.00% |
| 5.0.0 | 5.0.3 (15) | <0.01% |
| 5.0.0 | 5.0.2 (14) | <0.01% |
| 5.0.0 | 5.0.1 (13) | 0% |
| 5.0.0 | 5.0.0 (12) | 0% |
The big headline: 6.1.0 (API 23) has slipped to 60.20%, down from its peak, as 6.1.1 (API 24) climbed to 34.40%. The new 26.0.0 Beta1 — corresponding to HarmonyOS 7.0.0 Beta1 — has appeared with 0.17% share, confirming that early adopters and developers are already running the next major OS version on real devices.
Combined, 6.1.0 and above now account for 94.77% of all active HarmonyOS devices. Everything below API 23 — versions 6.0.2 and older — makes up only about 5.23% of the install base.
At the bottom of the stack, the clean-up is nearly complete. Multiple HarmonyOS 5.0.0 sub-versions — API 12, 13, and 16 — have reached exactly 0%. API 14 and 15 are below 0.01%. The highest 5.x-era version, 5.1.1 (API 19), hangs on at just 0.21%.
Huawei announced HarmonyOS 7 at HDC 2026 on June 12, opening the developer beta the same day. The corresponding SDK, 26.0.0 Beta1, shipped alongside it. Compared to 6.1.1 (API 24), the new SDK brings several upgrades: enhanced material rendering effects for better lighting immersion, Core File Kit support for sharing sandbox directories at the system level, strengthened Device Security Kit capabilities through the Starshield engine, a new pre-launch feature in Graphics Accelerate Kit to speed up game startup, and improved notification management with half-modal settings interfaces. The ArkWeb rendering engine has also been bumped from Chromium 132 to Chromium 144.
The first wave of devices eligible for the HarmonyOS 7 developer beta includes the Mate 80 Pro, Mate X7, Mate XTs Ultimate Design, Pura 90 Pro Max, Pura X, Pura X Collector’s Edition, and nova 15 Pro.
