My iPod 3 recently died and I am thinking about buying a factory sealed iPod 4. If the iPod 4 has ios 5 or earlier on it can I still upgrade it to ios 6.1.6?
iPod touch, iOS 5.0.1
Yes. Note that if it's running an iOS version older than 5.0, it'll need to be connected to a computer to be updated.
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It's 2016!
The IPod Touch 4th gen was discontinued nearly 4 years, ago, and it's a six year old (soon to be 7 year old) device!
Not much better with a newer iPod Touch 5th gen as this is 4 year old technology, but you can upgrade the 5th gen iPod Touch to the last version of iOS 9, iOS 9.3.5!
Apple's online store has refurbished 5th gen iPod Touches (which Apple treats as new product with complete AppleCare warranties) and have a few 32 GB models selling for $170 U.S.D and a couple of 64 GB models selling for $209 U.S.D..
http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/ipod
OR
Why don't you just bite the bullet and get a new iPod Touch 6th gen from a local Apple store or dealer or from Apple's online store.
It will be up to date with the current iOS and has waaay better specs than any iPod Touch before it.
The 6th gen iPad Touch is pretty nearly 80-85%, or so, on par with the iPhone 6!
http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipod/ipod-touch
Good Luck!
The reason is very simple. I have paid apps that are either no longer in the App Store or supported by the latest iOS.
Yeah,
That happens, but for apps that aren't supported by the latest iOS, if it is still available from the iOS App Store, the last compatible version will still be able to be downloaded.
For apps that were discontinued and no longer on the App Store, are those apps that you use a lot or ones that you only use infrequently?
Are these paid discontinued apps that important to you that you keep refusing the move up to a more recent mobile iOS device?
So, in effect, you are never, ever going to upgrade to better iPod Touch because of some apps that some developers decided weren't making them enough money to continue to develop or support past iOS 6?
Have you attempted to look in the iOS App Store for suitable replacement apps for those dicontinued apps?
How many discontinued apps do you have on that iPod Touch 3?
You rationale for paying for and staying with older, no longer supporedt Apple iPod Touches seems rather self defeating and not very logical.
So, as long as you have older paid apps that are no longer available on the App Store on new or newer iDevices, you will always have to stick with one or two older iPod Touch models that will just keep getting older and older and scarcer and scarcer to find?
That is what you are doing?
Really?
FYI
If you had backups to iTunes, of your iPod Touch 3, on a computer, those discontinued apps will backup and you can restore those discontinued apps back to a newer iPod Touch.
Upgrading older iPod
