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YouTube is blocked from iPad 2

This is my family iPad we had for years and YouTube has blocked out when I charge it again in a while the only thing I can watch YouTube is to use safari but the YouTube app is comfortable to use I try everything please help.

iPad 2, iOS 9

Posted on May 1, 2021 7:34 PM

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Why is it in vintage

Posted on May 2, 2021 7:59 AM

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May 2, 2021 3:25 PM in response to MrDrinker

I gave you my response.

9-10 year old iPads, like the iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini are no longer supported by Apple and are no longer supported by third party app developers.

Without anymore support from Apple and virtually NO more support and updates from third party app developers and many third party app developers abandoning theses old iPad, by not supporting their older version apps and NOT offering any more app updates, these 9-10 year old iPads are, effectively, obsolete devices.

Apps that DO NOT rely on Web-based services or a connection to the Web/Internet, will still continue to function.

Those old apps that rely on a connection to the Internet, their functioning days are on borrowed time.


Sorry.


More and more third party Website-based apps, streaming Web-based apps, game app developers will continue to drop support for all of these old iOS device models.

It is what it is and this trend of non-support of apps for old iOS devices is only going to continue.


Sorry.


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May 1, 2021 9:46 PM in response to MrDrinker

I really doesn't matter with that very old iPad.

Google/YouTube has stopped supporting their older app on 8-10 year old iOS devices, now.

This actually happened at the very beginning of the 2021 year.

So, your ONLY option is to use and view YouTube from a Web browser.


Your 2011 iPad 2 is now 10-years old and considered old and obsolete technology.


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


Apple ended support for all 8-10-year old iOS devices well over 4 years, ago, in 2016.

Third party app developers abandoned and stopped supporting these 8-10-year old iOS devices nearly 3 years, ago, in 2018.

There are, virtually, NO MORE third party apps available from the iOS App Store, any longer!

Third party compatible apps for such old devices are few and far between, now, in 2021.


Also, that nearly 5-year old default iOS Safari Web browser is too old, not secure and not safe to use to access the Internet, any longer.

There are virtually NO MORE third party Web browsers left for 8-10 year old iPads!

Available and more popular third party Web browser choices are pretty much GONE, now.

If you must use these old iPad models, here is what is left for still updated Web browsers.


Pickins’ are slim, now!


ALook Web browser ( A fairly new Web browser primarily designed for old iOS device versions, but is still available to newer iOS/iPadOS devices, as well )


Dolphin Web browser

Maxthon Web browser

TOR private browser

TOR + VPN private browser

Turbo VPN private browser


This is pretty much it for iOS 9/10 compatible, third party Web browsers today.



It's 2021 now!

You really need to seriously consider a purchase of a new iPad model OR a much, MUCH “newer” and less expensive, refurbished or used iPad models, from better known, trusted Apple product/device retailers/resellers, locally or online, on the Web/Internet, capable of running the latest iPadOS versions.


There are PLENTY of newer, older iPad models that can run the latest, current versions of iPadOS.


I am sorry that you had to learn all of this, but this does not change any of the facts regarding these very old iOS devices.



Sorry & Best of Luck to You!


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May 2, 2021 3:25 PM in response to MrDrinker

I gave you my response.

9-10 year old iPads, like the iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini are no longer supported by Apple and are no longer supported by third party app developers.

Without anymore support from Apple and virtually NO more support and updates from third party app developers and many third party app developers abandoning theses old iPad, by not supporting their older version apps and NOT offering any more app updates, these 9-10 year old iPads are, effectively, obsolete devices.

Apps that DO NOT rely on Web-based services or a connection to the Web/Internet, will still continue to function.

Those old apps that rely on a connection to the Internet, their functioning days are on borrowed time.


Sorry.


More and more third party Website-based apps, streaming Web-based apps, game app developers will continue to drop support for all of these old iOS device models.

It is what it is and this trend of non-support of apps for old iOS devices is only going to continue.


Sorry.


YouTube is blocked from iPad 2

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