How can I update iPad mini 1 to ios 10?

No.

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.

So, your options are really keep using your 1st gen iPad Mini or purchase a new iPad if you feel you need or want to.

Your current 1st gen iPad Mini will still work and continue to receive app updates until sometime this Fall 2017, when, with the introduction of iOS 11, ALL support for older 32 bit iDevices and any iOS 32 bit apps will come to a final end.

Your 1st gen iPad Mini will still work and function as it always has, but will no longer receive any more app updates after the Fall of 2017.

The 1st gen iPad Mini has had 4-5 years of iOS upgrades/updates

The final app updates your 1st gen iPad Mini will receive will be its last!

I'm still using an iPad 2 which is STILL receiving app updates for a little while longer.

This is why Apple introduced the new, lower cost 2017 iPad 5 model, in April

Apple is trying to get older iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen Mini iPad users to upgrade to more modern iPad hardware in anticipation of iOS 11, which will render all older 32 bit iDevices obsolete.

Good Luck to You!

That is correct, but Hulu should allow the last compatible version to download to your 1st gen iPad Mini.

Yes, this is what is going to happen.

Over time, your older iPad will no longer receive current app updates, but the versions you already have on your iPad Mini 1 and whatever the last version of an app gets issued for iOS 9, will still function as well.

If you already have a the older version of Hulu, this should still be working.

And, as I already stated, Hulu should still allow the previous, older, compatible version to still download to your iPad Mini 1.

If you do not like this eventuality, then you would need to purchase a new, refurbishished or “newer” (used) iPad Mini!

Currently, the iPad Mini 4 is going for $399 for the 128 GBs storage model.

The new 2017, iPad 5th generation is selling for $329 for the 32 GBs storage model and $429 for the 128 GBs storage model.

Good Luck to You!

Not without a newer one. iOS 10 requires at least an iPad 4, sixth generation iPod touch, iPhone 5, or second generation iPad mini.

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Will we (iPad Mini 1 owners) be able to use the apps without updates?

'How' what ? As has already been posted, you can't update a first gen Mini higher than 9.3.5

Sorry to say, but its not able to upgrade. The iPad mini 2 can upgrade (which is about $300)

Yes.

The last app updates you receive, prior to the release of iOS 11, will be their last and will continue to function as they always have.

Not fully. I am seeing this with my iPad Mine 1. I can't get the Hulu app with Live TV on this ipad because it doesn't have iOS10.

How?