Is my older (10 years) iPad worth anything? It still works, but is very slow.

Is my older (10 yrs.) iPad worth anything to anyone? It works, but is slow.

Posted on Jan 22, 2021 11:24 AM

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Posted on Jan 23, 2021 9:55 PM

Don;t give it to anyone.

That iPad is pretty a useless, obsolete device, now.

That old an iPad will NOT be useful, any longer, to anybody.

Apple ended support for 8-10 year old iPads, at least, over 3 years, ago.

The internal hardware in that iPad is too old, too underpowred and completely incompatible with all later versions of iOS/iPadOS.

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 also, virtually, NO MORE popular or useful apps or games for these old iPads, any longer!

AND there are virtually NO MORE apps for the even the oldest of iPad models running iOS 8 and earlier!

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

It is simply far too old an iPad, now!


Sorry.

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Jan 23, 2021 9:55 PM in response to Jupiter2021

Don;t give it to anyone.

That iPad is pretty a useless, obsolete device, now.

That old an iPad will NOT be useful, any longer, to anybody.

Apple ended support for 8-10 year old iPads, at least, over 3 years, ago.

The internal hardware in that iPad is too old, too underpowred and completely incompatible with all later versions of iOS/iPadOS.

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 also, virtually, NO MORE popular or useful apps or games for these old iPads, any longer!

AND there are virtually NO MORE apps for the even the oldest of iPad models running iOS 8 and earlier!

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

It is simply far too old an iPad, now!


Sorry.

Jan 24, 2021 2:13 PM in response to Jupiter2021

Thank you so much for your continuing replies & support to my blather. We elder folks have a difficult time traversing the internet world & aren't as sharp as in the olden days. (Of course we didn't have internet back then. Much simpler time.} You have saved me a lot of time & angst. I will simply stop trying to resuscitate my iPad 2nd generation, per your advice.

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