I have a iPad mini 2 with model number A1455. I am trying to update it with iOS 10, but it shows my iOS 9.3.5 is up to date. I also tried to do this through iTunes. But it also showing same. What can I do to get iOS 10?
iOS 9.3.5
For those of us who bought an iPad Mini less than 3 years ago, brand new, from Apple, this is kind of lame. I can no longer run Outlook for iOS to read my work emails. I know I could forward work emails to my personal inbox, I just don't want to. I wasn't looking to spend $700 on a cell phone then, and I am not now. Thanks for the replies.
foxje79 wrote:
For those of us who bought an iPad Mini less than 3 years ago, brand new, from Apple, this is kind of lame. I can no longer run Outlook for iOS to read my work emails. I know I could forward work emails to my personal inbox, I just don't want to. I wasn't looking to spend $700 on a cell phone then, and I am not now. Thanks for the replies.
Why not?
The iOS requirement for the MS Outlook app is STILL iOS 9 and later?
What is/are the issue/s with the Outlook app?
If you are having issues with the app, maybe you need to be contacting Microsoft App support?
I feel sheepish now. I'm still not sure as to the root of the problem, but I deleted the version of the app I had, dowloaded the latest version, then after a failed log in attempt (even though the password was working from my home computers), I changed my password using the iOS Outlook app, and now it works.
The model number indicates a 1st gen. iPad mini with Wi-Fi + Cellular (MM). Your device cannot run iOS 10.
tt2
So this is it, there will never be an update for this iPad
That seems to be the case. I'd personally be grateful since performance can be diminished by requiring the iPad to perform tasks that the CPU is not fully capable of handling. Yes, apps and their ability to run newer versions of them will be a problem when they start requiring the higher OS but all devices have a finite lifespan, at least as far as software goes.
There is a very slim possibility that Apple might discover a vulnerability with 9.3.5 which they decide they want to address, but otherwise yes, that is it. It hasn't stopped working however. Apps you already have will continue to work, but as time goes by there may be newer apps that won't work with it because they rely on new features introduced in iOS 10.
tt2
The iPad 2, 3 and 1st generation iPad Mini are all ineligible and excluded from upgrading to iOS 10.
They all share similar hardware architectures and a less powerful 1.0 Ghz CPU that Apple has deemed insufficiently powerful enough to even run the basic, barebones features of iOS 10.
Why would you want to upgrade, anyways?
Since iOS 8, older iPad models such as the iPad 2, 3, 4 and the original iPad Mini have only been getting the most basic of iOS features.
Older iPad users get none of the newest and coolest cutting edge features that newer model iDevices, with better hardware specs, can handle with more aplomb.
FYI,
Just because your 1st gen iPad Mini is no longer able to upgrade to the latest iOS doesn't mean your 1st gen iPad Mini is suddenly useless.
Your 1st gen iPad Mini will work as it always has and the apps you have installed on it will continue to update and receive some level of app updates relevent to your current iOS.
You have had four years of iOS upgrades and updates.
Your 1st gen iPad Mini will still do everything it does now and you will, get, at least, another full year, perhaps two, if you decide to you want to wait longer to get a new or newer iPad model.
Your 1st gen iPad Mini is NOT suddenly becoming obsolete.
Good Luck to you!
iPad mini 2 not showing an update for iOS 10
