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Update ios 10 for ipad 2

Hello can you help? I cant update my ipad 2 into ios 10

iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 9.3.5

Posted on Nov 3, 2016 2:24 AM

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Nov 3, 2016 2:34 AM in response to Marixhes

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 and 4 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Plus, the iPad 2 and 3 are the only two supported models left that use the much outdated 30 pin dock connector.


The same iPad 2 users who whined and moaned and groaned that both iOS 8 and 9 slowed down the performance of their iPad 2 models would come back, once again, in angry droves, with even more complaints of slowdowns under iOS 10.

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.

Update ios 10 for ipad 2

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