IPAD model MF432LL/A will not update. How to force it?

It took you over a year to realise that your 1st gen iPad Mini could never upgrade past iOS 9.3.5?

Well, I have some more bad news.

Your 1st gen iPad Mini is a 32 bit device.

iOS 11 is an all 64 bit operating system

As I stated previously, when iOS 11 is released next week on Tuesday, September 19, all support for 32 bit iDevices and newer iDevices to be able to still run 32 bit coded apps will end.

Well, I'm feeling down after reading this. Actually I thought that all the iPads shall be getting the update. I've got Ipad Mini 1 and now I've realized why its update was stuck at 9.3.5 😕

It seems that I won't be able to enjoy the amazing features of IOS 11 on my iPad 😟

That model is a 1st gen iPad Mini and can't be upgraded to iOS 10 or later.

iOS 9.3.5 is the highest iOS your iPad Mini 1 can go!

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 and 1st gen 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 iPad Mini 1 is no longer able to upgrade to the latest iOS doesn't mean your iPad 2 is suddenly useless.

Your iPad Mini 1will 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 iPad Mini 1 will still do everything it does now and you will, get, at least, another full year, perhaps two, if you decide you want to wait longer to get a new or newer iPad model.

Your iPad Mini is NOT, suddenly, becoming obsolete or useless.

So, your options are really keep using your iPad 2 or purchase a new iPad if you feel you need or want to.

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

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

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!

Won't update to what ? If you mean iOS 10 then you can't, that model is a first gen iPad Mini which only supports up to iOS 9.3.5