Netflix for older ipad

Hey everyone! The same thing just happened to me with my older iPad Air (1st gen) and could solve it! You just have to download Netflix from your “purchased apps” “not in this iPad” from the App Store.

Download Netflix in another iOS device with the same Apple ID than the “old iPad” is using. Once that is done, go to the App Store in the “old iPad”, click on the avatar sign on the top right corner > “purchased” > “My Purchases” > “Not on this IPad”. Then find Netflix and download it. It should be causing no more problems!

Yes! It didn’t give me the most updated version of the app obviously since I don’t have iOS 13, but the old version of the app itself works fine just like it used to before I reset my device.

AND it was super easy, all I had to do was go to my phone with the same Apple ID and download the Netflix app (or if you already own it, then delete and reinstall). Then go to your iPads App Store settings and then ‘purchased’ and ‘all’ and it should be on the top and there should be the cloud with arrow symbol there. Once you click it, it asks if you are ok with an older version of the app and if you agree the app gets downloaded.

I have the same problem but with my son 6th Gen Ipod Touch. Netflix work just fine on it with IOS 12.4 but we reset it to give to my youngest only to find out that we can't redownload Netflix for him because of this stupid requirement. Now my son is beyond mad/sad and doesn't understand.

This is absolutely ridiculous and a cash grab from Apple forcing us to have to buy newer devices. Popular apps such as streaming sites do not need updating to run and to restrict their user base by limiting to the most recent IOS... This is why I myself switched to Android…

So I had an Apple ID on an older iPad mini but erased it so my 4 year old could have his own account under family sharing. Now I can’t get Netflix back! It’s the main thing he watches. Did you figure out a solution?

Apple has step by step instructions on what to do for this.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211841

There is one last thing you can try/attempt, if you need an older version of an app.

If you own much newer iOS device that can run either iOS 12 and.or iOS/iPadOS 13 and later, you can install the most recent app/s onto that more recent iOS device.

Then go back to your older iPad, open the iOS App Store, go to the Purchases section of the store app, search for the app/s you wish to try and download to that older iPad and see if an older version of the app is allowed to be downloaded/installed to that older iPad.

These newer iOS/iPadOS devices must use your same Apple ID user account and password.

Failing that OR IF NO joy, then there is nothing more to be done.

Well then,

This is the way that used to work, but I had no idea that if that procedure would still work today, in 2020, with some apps.

I will have to make note of this in the future for anyone else with older iPads trying to get an older version of Netflix to use.

I am not convinced, though, that this will work for all other older iOS device apps, or not.

I am not sure this procedure will work, for instance, for getting the older version of the YouTube app, for older iPads, for example.

If the app is too old and the apps developers have removed any/all of their older versions of their app/s, from the iOS App Store, then their is no way to get the older version of an app, any longer! Period!

As I have stated over and over in these iPad communities,

“Virtually, all third party iOS app developers ended/stopped/abandoned supporting these old iPads over two years, ago.

There are virtually, NO MORE older iOS 9 or 10 compatible apps available from the Apple iOS App Store, any longer.

There are NO MORE popular, useful apps or games for these old iPads, any longer!

Especially games as game makers push for upgrade compatibility for best interactive user and cross device gameplay.”

Netflix maybe still available to older iOS devices, but this is a rare exception to my statements

I know fof a fact you cannot get the older Hulu app, no Disney+ app and pretty sure NO older versions of Amazon Prime Video app, either!

Many popular and useful productivity and creative apps ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO 8-10 year old iOS devices, any longer!

Nearly ALL third party app developers do not want to support 8-10-year old Apple mobile devices and have removed all of their older 32-bit version apps that run on the aged 8-10-year old iPad models.

“Simply put, yet again, these old Pad models are too old and obsolete now.

Sorry, but this is the reality for ALL 8-10-year old AND OLDER iOS devices now. Especially going into 2021!”

That link you supplied pertains more to currently still available apps and those older, but still more recent apps ( I am thinking from iOS 11 to current iPadOS versions of apps).

These procedures will yield very few download/install results for apps that supoort iOS 10 and earlier.

Sorry.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/106306

That link is to the Netflix help page that says it’ll work as long as the device is running iOS 5 or above. On that help page you can also find the original Apple link I posted.

https://macreports.com/how-to-install-apps-on-older-devices-running-older-versions-of-ios/

Another source from 2020 with the same process. It mentions using this process with old IOS versions, you know the same ones you say it won’t work with.

Then there is my personal experience. I refurbish old and broken Apple products, often for other students at my school. I have successfully guided over a dozen students through this process, albeit sometimes another, older, Apple ID needs to be used. Most recently I did this last week, the I pad was running iOS 10.

I don’t know what you’re apologizing to me for, it worked for me. You’re the one who seems to be having problems, or maybe you’re just speculating.

If the old versions of apps are gone, they are gone forever.

As I will keep staying, the lion's share of older apps have been permanently removed from the iOS App Store by both Apple and the third party developers.

I know ALL about ALL of the different procedures to try and attempt to get older version apps, but if they are gone from the iOS App Store, the app/s are GONE!

Nothing to be done.

AND there are practically NO MORE apps for iOS 5 devices either!

Again, not my first rodeo with ANY of this, either.

You need to complain to Netflix. Only the publisher decides whether to keep old versions of their apps available.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!

Not sure if that is going to work!

This is NOT my first rodeo with old iPads and older apps.

Not by a long shot!

I believe your advice will fail.

Did Leonardo_castro’s advice really work for you?