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Sep 14, 2016 9:55 AM in response to IpadminiQUESTIONSby ckuan,Your iPad mini 1 hardware is not up to task, you'll need an iPad mini 2 or later.
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Sep 14, 2016 9:55 AM in response to IpadminiQUESTIONSby Kilgore-Trout,- This is a a user-to-user technical support forum. You are not addressing apple. you can offer feed to Apple here.
- If that model iPad had the specs to handle iOS 10, it would have been released for it.
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Sep 14, 2016 9:58 AM in response to IpadminiQUESTIONSby Neku Sakuraba,It is really unfortunate that the 1st Gen Ipad mini does not meet the requirements to run this new ios. I would have hope to see it on it as well.
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Sep 14, 2016 10:28 AM in response to Neku Sakurababy MichelPM,Why are you surprised?
We're onto the 4th generation of iPad Mini, now!
The 1st gen iPad Mini is functionally the same as the iPad 2 and almost as old.
Apple discontinued iOS upgrades for iPad 2 and 1st gen Mini for the same reasons.
They are both only 32 bit architectures, limited 512 MBs of RAM in both, and the cpus only has 2 cores. and no graphics co processors.
I am, actually, surprised that Apple left the iPad 4 as a qualifying iOS 1O device.
Other than a faster A6X cpu (1.4 Ghz) ,1 GB of RAM, the more recent lightning connection (early iPad 4 models still had the 30 pin dock connection), the iPad 4's hardware architecture is still 32 bit, still only has a 2 core cpu and the iPad 4 has no graphics coprocessor, either!
iPad 4 has virtually the same specs as the iPad 3, which only has a 1.0 Ghz A6 cpu, which Apple also discontinued for iOS 10.