Older copies of the iPad Facebook App?

The App staes it requires iOs 4.3 or later so it should work on 5.1.1. Try Resetting the iPad by holding down home and power buttons until rthe Apple Logo shows up. Ignore any sliders that may appear.

If that doesn't solve it. Try uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Just remove it, and download it again.

Also try closing any apps from the recently used list so that nothing lese is running and see if it opens.

I feel like I am being the bearer of bad news to you once again regarding your iPad.

Once an app is updated in the App Store, there is nowhere from which you can download the older version of the app again. If you have the older version of the app in iTunes on your computer - you can delete the app from the iPad and sync the old version back to the device. Obviously, the only way that you would have the old version is if you just updated the app on the iPad and have not synced with iTunes yet.

If you just updated the app and you did sync with iTunes, you might be able to drag the old version out of the trash and reinstall it. You will have to delete the new version off of your iPad first.

Ok, so here another bearer of bad news... I made the mistake of updating my facebook app which was constantly freezing, and... the new one doesn't even launch, it crashes as soon as I click the icon.

So I plugged the ipad in itunes, installed the facebook app from my backup, and... same thing, crashes all over again.

I managed to find older versions of facebook... facebook 5.0.1 doesn't work, it crashes too. But 5.0 works, at least the version I found : http://turbobit.net/download/free/otpae8r5zm50# So now I'm stuck with an older version, but at least it loads and I can use it.

Good luck, I hope it works for you !

You need to download it on your mac/pc, and then you put it in your iPad, either by installing it via iTunes, or by putting it directly into the iPad files and installing it with something like Installous.

Did you get a reply from Facebook? Hopefully an update will fix this. In reading through this thread, it seems as though a poster sent you a Dropbox link to the app; this will not work because it is tied to his/her Apple ID.

The app I put in my dropbox should help you, it was not linked to my ID, it was something I downloaded from the internet.

Sadly, I can't post it again or anything, since my flat was broken into and my macbook pro was stolen last week (as well as my iPad, iPod and macbook).

But really, you should try it, and try the method I suggested. It was working flawlessly for me and it even solved the problem I had with the app freezing all the time.

Arggh, that's too bad. How did you try to load it ? Putting it in iTunes didn't work for me, I had to put it into an app inside my iPad and open it from there.

And yeah, it *****, big time. Especially since I had a 17" quadcore 2.5ghz 16GB macbook pro and these are not sold anymore 😟

I'll try to explain a bit more, but it's hard since I lost the iPad and the computers and I don't really remember the apps name. There is no need to jailbreak your iPad !

You need to install an app which will enable you to browse through the contents of your iPad from your computer, but not from iTunes. I have the impression it was called iFiles, but I can't be sure.

Then, you need to download another app called Installous. And after that, from your computer and the iFiles app, you need to browse through your iPad, find the "downloaded" folder of the Installous app, but your facebook app inside it, open Installous in your iPad, go to the downloaded apps tab, and install it from here.

Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's hard to remember the names. Installous, I'm sure of this one, and iFiles, I'm almost sure but not 100%.

As I said, it's not illegal or anything, and there is absolutely no need to jailbreak your pad.

As I said, your iPad can't open it, you need to open it with something able to open the apps, and appart from iTunes, which will surely not work (didn't work for me, which is why I had to find an alternate way on the web), you can use something like Installous (there are surely other apps available). Your iPad has no built in way to open apps.

There are other stuff. I used it, it was fine. I wasn't planning to use it any further, and now it doesn't really matter since I don't have my iPad anymore.

Try to find something similar with better reviews.

I had all the serial numbers, the boxes, pictures of the stuff since I was doing some promotion for a sticker company, and I also had the original receipts. I'll be reimbursed fully by the insurance, but I lost some documents (it had been two weeks since I last saved it with timemachine), my music (it was also on the macbook and the macbook pro, but since both of them were stolen too, I don't have it anymore), and I can't get another macbook pro 17". So I'm not able to work with my Cintiq at the moment.

I hope facebook quickly releases another version of the app, it seems a bit scandalous that they are offering such a crappy app and not even trying to fix the problems.