Will Ipad Air 2 get IOS 16?

shivaji113 wrote:

Bro , everyone is not that rich like you that they can afford newer models of apple devices while their old ones are in good working condition.

The device no longer meets Netflix's minimum hardware requirements. That's not Apple's fault. Take it up with Netflix. Or, buy a new, inexpensive Android tablet. Or, take the money you would have spent on Netflix and start saving it for a new iPad.

I can no longer read the NYT on my iPad Air 2 as of this week. I’m very disappointed with Apple. There is nothing wrong with this tablet. It works well but now is not supported on NYT, Netflix …. This is clearly a way for Apple to force users to buy a new, expensive iPad. Shame on you Apple. Eventually this will come back to hurt your bottom line. Unhappy, angry customers will eventually find an alternative.

According to NYT customer service it was Apple that forced this change. I bought this iPad about 6 years ago. It still runs fast, has plenty of storage and memory. There is no clear reason to me why these apps would no longer support it. You are not going to convince me that Apple isn’t aware of what they are doing here.

NYT customer service lied to you. When you bought it the iPad Air 2 had been discontinued 2 years earlier; you (hopefully) knowingly bought an obsolescent device. I’m not out to convince you of anything. I am just stating facts. I know facts are out of fashion these days, but I still accept them. As a software developer I can tell you that it is always the choice of an app provider for the versions of any operating system that they are willing to support.

The Times decision may have been based on economics; they wanted to take advantage of new features in iOS 16 and later, but to support an older version they would have had to fork the development tree and essentially maintain 2 versions, which would have increased their development and support costs.

Facts are very important to me. Why is Apple not providing a way to upgrade to iOS 16? What is the specific reason? Is it a technical issue? Does Apple not want to spend money testing the OS on this device? I’m clearly not the only one bothered by this lack of support by Apple.

RileyBruno wrote:

The example of a 1984 IBM PC and windows 11 is not quite equivalent. That is a 40 gap in technology. With the iPad Air 2, you are talking about a device you could purchase from Apple 6 years ago. It’s sad they have now made it obsolete. Perhaps the neural engine features of the OS could be turned off when running on an older platform.

I’m not interested in defending the often-inexplicable statements of the New York Times.

You could contact the NYT ombudsman and ask about their decision here, of course.

Ok?? The iPhone SE was also released almost a decade ago but so many people still use it. Just because it was released 10 years ago doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be able to use the same functions as others. And not everyone has the funds that you do, like me personally I have the latest iPad and an Air 2 but I prefer using the Air 2 anyways for a multitude of reasons.

alexiskibidi wrote:

Ok?? The iPhone SE was also released almost a decade ago but so many people still use it. Just because it was released 10 years ago doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be able to use the same functions as others.

You can still use it with the same functions. But you cannot use it with updated functions that require hardware features that the 10 year old device doesn’t have.

alexiskibidi wrote:

Ok?? The iPhone SE was also released almost a decade ago but so many people still use it. Just because it was released 10 years ago doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be able to use the same functions as others. And not everyone has the funds that you do, like me personally I have the latest iPad and an Air 2 but I prefer using the Air 2 anyways for a multitude of reasons.

I understand that some people will want to use an underpowered and under-configured device with missing hardware features, and a device that will be overloaded by newer apps and by newer operating system versions meaning that device will run poorly at best, and that result with the added effort involved from Apple and from the third-party vendors around de-tuning the newer features and running quite possibly maintaining parallel copies of apps, and maintaining multiple copies of documentation and help files to ensure proper communications of the differing versions, and this all to avoid and to eliminate what won't work on the older gear, and I'm sure that the folks with these older devices won't then be unhappy about the missing features and about the poor performance, and all of that effort and complexity for a shrinking number of older and more limited devices, right?

magret8 wrote:

Now unable to download newest version of American Airlines app on my iPad because it requires 16.0. I am sure other apps will follow. Not great Customer Care - just greedy of Apple, again..

How is this "greedy of Apple, again"?

It was your airline who decided to keep you from running their app on your device.

Tell Netflix you need support for your iPad Air 2. It is the

developer's choice which devices and what versions of

iOS/iPadOS they support.

That really upsets me as I bought 2, ipad2 s brand new with lots of Gigabytes so that my mom and I wouldn’t have to replace them because of memory issues and now this!! Totally unfair!!!

https://www.netflix.com/browse

You can still use it via an internet browser.

How is this unfair, the ipad air 2 was released 10 years ago

Bro , everyone is not that rich like you that they can afford newer models of apple devices while their old ones are in good working condition.