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Hello,
i have ipad 2 with ios 9.3.5. How can i update it to newest version?
Thanks,
Hayri
iPad 2, iOS 9
Just buy a new iPad. What do you expect? Your iPad is almost 10 years old and it just cannot run the latest software - it still works. It's not like your iPad doesn't work anymore - no, it just can't be upgraded past iOS 9.3.x. iOS 9.3.x is from 2016, so it got 5 years of support. The recent iOS 9.3.6 hotfix was released in 2019 btw.
So, what should i do?
I have not charged it more than 10 times, its so new.
all equipments including recycle battery is so new.
we are living in bad days with all humanity in the world and we need to save worlds source. So you told me that its garbage?
Can not believe to hear this. Apple suggest me that its just garbage! All your solution is this.
Hayri
First of all we are not Apple, we are users like you.
And no. We did not say it is garbage, we just that you can't update it further.
It's a tablet that was released in 2011.
Good luck finding any company still supporting tablets from 2011.
If you sell something, you must give service to the end of life circle with accepting costs.
I want to get service for this device with accepting costs.
If you tell it was released in 2011, you must get it back to recycle or must continue to give service.
Do not be a people that obey rulez without thinking.
Your childs-child’s child will need more worlds source than you.
And do not forget; you have brain from 30-40-50 years before, and i hope you still update it without change.
Good luck with this life style to you.
It is what it is.
It is not anyone's fault, but yours, that you did not use this iPad much in the past 9 years!
A 2nd gen iPad cannot be upgraded beyond iOS 9.3.5/9.3.6.
A 2011, 2nd gen iPad is a 9-year old device, now!
It’s old!
Its internal hardware is too old, WOEFULLY underpowered and completely incompatible with any of the current and future versions of iOS/iPadOS.
Sorry. It is what it is at this very late date, now here in the year 2020.
If you need an iPad that can run the latest and greatest versions of iOS, as well as, the most current apps available, then, you need to purchase a new iPad from Apple or a discounted, refurbished iPad from Apple’s Refurbished & Clearance section of Apple’s Website or a new or refurbished iPad from an Apple authorised, third party retail or online reseller OR other trusted sources for new or used Apple products.
These old iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini models are nearing 8 and 9-years old, now.
As of the beginning of 2019, many, MANY third party app developers are all more quickly and completely permanently dropping older app support for all old 7, 8 and 9-year iPads that are running 2-3 year old and earlier iOS versions ( iOS 10 and earlier ).
Third party app developers are removing all of their older, legacy versions of their apps from Apple's App Store servers, now.
Third party app developers no longer want to support these 8 and 9-year old or older iOS devices, any longer!
Older versions of apps are, soon, going to be gone for good, now!
Getting older versions of apps for these old iPad models, initially from Apple’s iOS App Store is getting very difficult and very problematic and this issue is getting, painfully, much worse in 2020, now!
These old iPads are now reaching their complete end of life and support.
So finding older versions apps for older iPads, while still possible, currently, will be a tough challenge, now, in 2020.
Old iPads that can no longer be upgraded/updated will have NO MORE APPS AVAILABLE for initial download, at all, soon, from the Apple iOS App Store, for such old iOS devices in the very near future.
Older versions of apps for these older iPads will be completely gone, at some point, in the very foreseeable future.
Again, it is what it is, today, in the year 2020!
So, this is really now the time to seriously consider a new or discounted, refurbished iPad from Apple or other Apple authorised resellers.
You need to consider a new or discounted, refurbished iPad.
This is the reality and the reality of many modern, mobile devices from ANY maker.
If you would have purchased a tablet from some the maker, you would have had to replace it sooner than now!
A lot has happened with iPad and iOS in 7-9 years and in the past 2 to 3-1/2 years since iOS 9 and 10.
As an example and compared to your 9-years old iPad 2nd generation,
The baseline 2019, 10.2 inch screen 7th gen iPads have a 1/2 inch larger retina screen, newer, more powerful and nearly 2-1/2 times faster 2.3 Ghz, A10 Fusion processors, AT LEAST, 3-4 times the internal RAM, with the 2019, 7th gen iPad having 3 GBs of internal RAM, iPadOS 13 support, with much better and improved multitasking features, Apple Pencil and Apple Smart keyboard cover support and have better audio speakers and better/improved built-in cameras.
AND it is the lowest priced iPad that Apple has ever made or sold.
Also, this 7th gen iPad can be found, through other Internet resellers for a savings of between $70-$100 cheaper than Apple’s own pricing.
Sorry & Best of Luck to You!
Sorry, that model can not be upgraded further.
That is the latest update available for your iPad 2.
iOS and iPadOS devices listed by the last compatible OS
You can't update it to iOS 10 or newer.
I am sure you can deliver it to recycling if you have no further use for it.
Or give it to someone who will appreciate it.
Have a nice day!
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