B
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52%
52% -- email open share for Apple Mail (2026-02)
Apple Mail accounts for approximately 52% of tracked email opens.
- Apple Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) auto-prefetches tracking pixels, which inflates Apple's share of opens
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Value
52%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026-02
Entity
Sample Size
1,100,000,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Litmus
Primary
Tier B
https://dmarcguard.io/blog/email-provider-market-share/ ↗
Source Article
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Who Sends the Internet’s Email? The 2026 Provider Market Share
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Litmus
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Methodology
Litmus tracking-pixel opens, 1.1B+ opens; Apple MPP auto-prefetch inflates share
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Apple Mail: 52% email open share. Source: Litmus (2026-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/apple-mail-open-share-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/apple-mail-open-share-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>52%</strong> -- email open share for Apple Mail<br><small>Source: Litmus (2026-02) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/apple-mail-open-share-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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