en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 14, 2026, Huawei Consumer Business Group officially announced that the number of terminal devices supporting HarmonyOS 6 has surpassed 60 million. This data is sourced from Huawei's internal statistics, based on devices equipped with or supporting upgrades to HarmonyOS 6, with the statistical deadline being May 14, 2026.
HarmonyOS 6 was first unveiled at the Huawei Developer Conference HDC 2025 on June 20, 2025, and officially opened for upgrades to the first batch of over 90 models on October 22 of the same year, covering multiple product lines including the Huawei Mate 80 series, Mate 70 series, Pura 90 series, Pura 80 series, nova series, and MatePad Pro. This version introduced the new Star River Interconnect Architecture, supporting seamless cross-device file transfer and multi-device gaming team-ups, with peak transfer rates reaching 160MB/s. Following a bottom-layer reconstruction of the Ark Engine, overall system fluency improved by 15%, average app cold start speed increased by 50%, and the end-to-end latency of the distributed soft bus was compressed to within 8 milliseconds, providing users with an experience close to seamless switching in multi-device collaboration scenarios.
The intelligent assistant Celia underwent a generational upgrade in this version. Leveraging a device-cloud collaborative large model with a scale of 20 trillion tokens, Celia added recognition capabilities for 16 Chinese dialects and integrated scenario-based functions such as AI photo editing and Smart Voice Memos, with intent understanding accuracy improving by over 30% compared to the previous generation. The HarmonyOS Agent Framework was released simultaneously, integrating over 80 application agents for fields such as education, healthcare, shopping, and travel. Developers can use the HMAF interface to embed their application's service capabilities into the system level in the form of agents, allowing users to directly invoke corresponding services from any interface without manually opening standalone apps. Huawei officially disclosed that as of April 2026, the number of native HarmonyOS apps and meta-services has exceeded 20,000, covering 18 vertical industries. Major apps like WeChat, Douyin, Alipay, Taobao, JD.com, and Meituan have all launched native HarmonyOS versions, meaning the mainstream services used daily by users have largely completed their migration.
Looking at the growth curve, the user base of HarmonyOS 6 is experiencing accelerated expansion. In March 2026, He Gang, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, announced at the Spring Full-Scenario New Product Launch that the total number of devices running HarmonyOS 5 and HarmonyOS 6 had surpassed 50 million, with average daily new device additions exceeding 150,000. Less than two months later, the number of devices running the single version of HarmonyOS 6 surpassed 60 million. If combined with the existing devices still using HarmonyOS 5, the overall HarmonyOS user base has crossed the 100 million mark.
Huawei's Rotating Chairwoman, Meng Wanzhou, provided a phased assessment of the HarmonyOS ecosystem at the financial report press conference in March 2026. She stated that the HarmonyOS ecosystem has passed its most difficult initial stage and is entering a period of scaled growth. The competition between operating systems is fundamentally a competition between ecosystems, and HarmonyOS's journey from usable to excellent to leading requires sustained investment and industry collaboration. In the full year of 2025, Huawei's R&D expenditure was 179.7 billion yuan, a significant portion of which was invested in the technological research and development of the HarmonyOS ecosystem and developer incentives.
In the international operating system market landscape, the rapid ramp-up of HarmonyOS 6 provides Huawei with an independent and controllable software foundation. With comprehensive integration across mobile phones, tablets, wearables, smart screens, and vehicle systems, HarmonyOS has become a full-scenario operating system covering everything from personal consumer electronics to intelligent cockpits. He Gang previously set a phased target in public forums of 100 million devices for the single version of HarmonyOS 6 by the end of 2026. Currently, the gap to this target is less than 40 million. If the current growth trajectory is maintained, it is expected to be achieved ahead of schedule in the third quarter.
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