I cannot download pages, numbers, nor keynote on my iPad 2 anymore?? Help!!

The new versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote require iOS 10 or later.

If you need a compatible version for iOS 9, you'll need to download the incompatible versions via iTunes on a computer first, so they are associated with your Apple ID, and then follow the steps here to get compatible versions on your iPad.

Install an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X - Apple Support

You do not need to connect the iPad to the computer at any time. Just download the Apps in iTunes, and then find them in Purchased tab in the App Store App on your iPad.

Note as mentioned this method may stop working once iOS11 iks released.

Phil0124 wrote:

Install an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X - Apple Support

I saw that article but for some reason it looked different than what I remembered and since it is now archived and no longer updated, I wasn't sure what to make of it.

I assume that still works, for now, anyway.

Those apps require iOS 10 and your iPad cannot run higher than 9.3.5. There used to be a workaround for this. It is explained here.

App Store: Downloading Older Versions of Apps - Apple Club

Apple used to have a support document explaining the same process that is explained in the link above. I can't find it now. I may have missed the article, but it may have been pulled since iOS 11 will be released soon and only 64 bit apps will work in that version. Maybe that has something to do with my inability to find the Apple support document. It may irrelevant soon. Just a guess.

If you have a computer running iTunes, try downloading the app in iTunes using the same Apple ID that you used to download the app on the iPad. You will be downloading the latest versions of the apps. Then try and download the app from the purchased tab of the App Store and see if you get the option to download the compatible version for the 9.3.5.

You have to remember that it is up to the developer to make older versions of the apps available and it wouldn't surprise me at all of Apple decided to pull the older versions. I don't know that for a fact, but nothing Apple does surprises me anymore.

Since the OP had the apps prior to resetting the iPad, and tried to download them from Purchased in the app store, I assume they are already associated with his Apple ID. So I wonder if this indicates that the earlier versions have simply been removed. The computer download trick is worth a try, of course.

Yes, it has been archived for a while. I had questioned why it was archived a while back, no answer was given, but now it seems obvious with what we know is coming.

Have not attempted to do it recently, so it may not work anymore, or there is the possibility as Diana points out, that Apple has pulled the older versions so they are not available any more.

Lets wait and see if Bdarmy is able to do it. Beyond that, there's unfortunately no other way to get those Apps on that iPad anymore.

Bdarmy wrote:

I just got done talking to apple support technician. They said they are retiring old iPads and the sorts. So you cannot download old versions of their apps anymore.

As I said, that comes as no surprise to me. I'm sorry that you can't download your apps again, and I know that you don't want to hear this, but support for the iPad 2 is all but gone now.

Hi. Are you on WiFi?

Do you have the current iOS, 9.3.5, for your iPad?

Do you have any Restrictions that would prevent installing apps?

Try downloading them from the Purchased section of the app store.

Try it anyway. Apple support likes to be premature in their assessments. Is possible you may be able to get the apps for your iPad still.