Opera gains ground among iPhone users in the US and UK

Opera says its iOS browser saw monthly active users grow 93% in the UK and 50% in the US during Q2 2026 compared with the same period last year. Here are the details.

Opera gains on mobile in the US and UK

According to a press release published today, Opera One for iOS saw monthly active users (MAUs) grow 50% in the US and 93% in the UK during the second quarter of 2026.

The company noted that this builds on momentum reported last year, after the Digital Markets Act required Apple to introduce a browser-choice screen on iOS. Opera One for iOS subsequently grew 42% across Europe, with France alone up 103%.

Back to today’s report, Opera attributed its growth in the US and the UK to users actively choosing the browser and sticking with it because of its features. From the press release:

Opera continues to innovate upon these core features: Opera One for iOS’s latest update, for instance, gives users an updated synchronization system that lets them sync their Opera tabs, bookmarks, and passwords from desktop to iPhone and vice versa. It also adds media controls to the tab interface, so users can see which tabs are playing sound and mute or unmute them. The browser AI gets new capabilities as well, with users now able to input multimodal prompts and upload files from their iPhone directly.

Opera also highlighted several core features it believes are driving retention, including a free, unlimited VPN, improved tab management, built-in AI, and a native ad blocker.

Finally, Opera said its overall MAUs grew 66% in the UK and 40% in the US during Q2 2026 compared with the year-ago period, when combining iOS and Android.

To read Opera’s full release, follow this link.