HT204204: Update the iOS software on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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Cruellagg
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Q: I have iPad mini version 1 and when I try to updat to version 10 it say version 9.3.5 is up to date and does not allow me to access version 10

i have the mini iPad version 1  I want to upgrade to iOS 10 but when I go to settings it tell me that version 9.3.5 is up to date and does not give me access to version 10.  Why is this and how can I get version 10

iPad Mini, iOS 9.3.5

Posted on Oct 15, 2016 4:14 PM

by ckuan,Apple recommended
ckuan ckuan
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iOS 9.3.5 is the highest you can go with iPad mini 1.

If you want iOS 10, you'll need at least iPad mini 2.

Posted on Oct 15, 2016 4:18 PM

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  • by IdrisSeabright,

    IdrisSeabright IdrisSeabright Oct 15, 2016 4:17 PM in response to Cruellagg
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    Oct 15, 2016 4:17 PM in response to Cruellagg

    Cruellagg wrote:

     

    Why is this and how can I get version 10

    You can't get iOS 10 because the original iPad Mini doesn't have the hardware to support it.

  • by ckuan,Apple recommended

    ckuan ckuan Oct 15, 2016 4:18 PM in response to Cruellagg
    Level 7 (34,344 points)
    Oct 15, 2016 4:18 PM in response to Cruellagg

    iOS 9.3.5 is the highest you can go with iPad mini 1.

    If you want iOS 10, you'll need at least iPad mini 2.

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Oct 15, 2016 6:45 PM in response to Cruellagg
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    Oct 15, 2016 6:45 PM in response to Cruellagg

    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.

    Since iOS 8, older iPad models such as the iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini users 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.

    Plus, the initial release of iOS 10, at the moment, seems riddled with bugs and undocumented feature omissions that current iOS upgraders are, currently, struggling with.

     

    FYI,

    You are not missing much, so far, with the initial release of iOS 10.

    It's still a bug ridden, initial public release.

     

    Many of its features are geared more toward iPhones/iPod Touches and is a lesser iOS for iPads.

     

    IMSO, iOS 10 is a lot more iPhone specific iOS and NOT and iPad iOS specific and NOT an iOS worthy for any iPad, at this early, initial release.

    I am still running very smoothly with iOS 9.3.5 on my large iPad Pro and 6th gen iPod Touch.

     

    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!