What am I supposed to do with my iPad 1st gen?

I wouldn't even bother with this iPad, any longer!

When you did complete full reset the device ( Erase All Contents and Settings ) to a new device state now, and for these 8, 9and 10-year old iPads, this act of the complete device reset means a certain level of operational “death”to these very old iPads, for good, after the fact.

What should have happened is this iPad needed to be backed up to an older version of iTunes on a computer before you did the full reset.

Older versions of iTunes ( version 12.6.5 or earlier ) for Mac or Windows P still save the complete installed app/s to the computer as part of the backup process.

Something Apple eliminated in later versions of the iTunes application ( versions 12.7 and newer ) for Mac or Windows PC.

A 2010 1st, gen iPad is an over 10-year old device, now ( March/April 2010 )!

These older iPad models are too old, now, too underpowered and completely incompatible with any of the current and future versions of iOS/iPadOS.

It is what it is, today, in the year 2020!

These old iPad 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini models are, at least close tp 8 years old and even older,now.

The amount of older, compatible, available apps for these old iPad models has dwindled significantly since the beginning of 2020!

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, now, in 2020!

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, 9 and 10-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, 9 and 10-year old or older iOS devices, any longer!

Older versions of apps are, soon, going to be gone for good, now!

These old iPads are now reaching their complete end of life and support cycles.

So finding older versions apps for older iPads, while still possible, currently, will be a very 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.

Old 8, 9 and 10-year old iPads will be pretty much obsolete by the end of the 2020 year!

Again, it is what it is, today, in the year 2020!

You will never get any more older versions of popular apps for these old iPads, any longer.

Nope.

Never going to happen.

I have all of my data and all those older apps, backed up to two or three older versions of iTunes on my iMac that still save the actual apps from the iPad.

I have 5 external drives with OS X 10.6.8, 10.8.5, 10.9.5 and 10.11.6 which all use versions of iTunes that still save the full app files to these drives through these older versions of iTunes.

Apple doesn’t block anything. Any App developer is free to leave their older versions of their apps available in the App Store. It is the developers themselves who pull the role versions and drop support for them. Microsoft only supports versions of their app for the current versions of iOS and the next most recent. They remove their older versions for older releases of iOS - but that is a MS decision, not Apples decision.

Same things goes for any and every third party developer. They run their own business and they decide which versions of their apps they are going to continue to distribute and support. And almost all of them currently only offer their 64-bit versions of their apps, and have pulled their older 32-bit versions that your first gen. iPad needs.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

LOL.......simply WAAAAAYYYY too much time and effort to keep an old device running.

It is NO effort for me, at all!

I have kept all my older iPads up and runnjng for all of these years!

I backup this iPad everytime I backup all my other iOS devices.

Not an issue nor an “effort”, as you put it!

Nothing at all wrong with what I am doing and not any different with me keeping my 10 and 11 year old IMacs up and fully running!

Funny you should mention VHS tape and a player.

I purchased a brand new, never used VHS tape player from one of my wife’s friends for dirt cheap about two years ago, or so, and I have been able to watch a whole bunch of VHS videos that were ONLY released at that time and ONLY on VHS.

I have not ever found these VHS tape titles transferred to DVD or Blu-ray.

Now I own a machine to actually play and watch these videos, again.

Something to be said for still having functioning old technology around.

Hello,

I have the iPad 1st gen too, there are some applications that are discontinued in the versions on iPad 1. Apps like YouTube, Netflix and Kindle are shutting down their services for those versions because most of the people don’t use those versions anymore. Recently I downloaded YouTube on my iPad 1 but I couldn’t make it work because YouTube has shut down the services for the version that iPad 1 runs. But you can still watch videos on YouTube and Netflix on the browser just fine, it will be just slower than the app.

Have a good day!

Just DON'T ever restore that device, like the OP did. Your 2010 iPad will then be as useless as it is now for them.

LOL.......simply WAAAAAYYYY too much time and effort to keep an old device running.