Unable to upgrade iPad to iOS 11 from 9.3.5...it says "up to date" & no provi to upgrade, how can I resolve? Thank you.....
iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 9.3.5, Trying to upg are to 11
The iPad 2, 3 and 1st generation iPad Mini are all ineligible and excluded from upgrading to iOS 10 AND iOS 11.
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Plus, the iPad 2 and 3 are the only two supported models left that use the much outdated 30 pin dock connector.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 or iOS 11.
FYI,
Just because your iPad 2 is no longer able to upgrade to the latest iOS doesn't mean your iPad 2 is suddenly useless.
Your iPad 2 will 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 2 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 2 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 2 will still work and continue to receive app updates until sometime through this Fall 2017, when, with the recent 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 2 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 2 will receive will be its last!
Your iPad 2 should STILL be receiving app updates, currently, but look for this to end sometime soon.
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 the recent introduction/release of iOS 11, which WILL render all older 32 bit iDevices obsolete.
Good Luck to You!
Yes. Almost all is true exclude lots of App wont to work at OS older than 10. If I can't install my favourite apps, it means for me that my 3hd generation iPad is not fully functional
How long do you expect any tech company to support older hardware.
The technology in a, now, 6 year old 5th gen iPod Touch will NOT support any newer iOS version other than iOS 9.3.5.
The technology in the 5th gen iPod Touch is the same as in an iPad2.
Your iPod Touch 5th gen has severely limited and outdated hardware with a clocked down 1 Ghz CPU (running at only 800 Mhz) with only a paltry 512 MBs of RAM.
No way iOS 10 or 11 would run on a device with that old hardware.
In addition, the 5th gen iPod Touch is a 32-bit device and will NOT work under the new, ALL 64-bit coded iOS 11.
BTW, your 5th gen iPod should still be, currently, receiving app updates!
How do I know this?
Because all my older iDevices running iOS 9.3.5 are all still receiving app updates.
The 6th gen iPod Touch has been available since July 2015.
The hardware that Apple put into that iPod Touch 6 is, ACTUALLY, the closest in specs to an actual iPhone 6 without the phone part!
And is still powerful enough to handle iOS 11 and, perhaps, two more major iOS upgrade releases!
You have had over two years to purchase a new iPod Touch!
No one here cares if you purchase a Google product.
You think you’d be better off Google Android product?
LOL and Ha Ha to you with that statement!
Android is a fragmented mess with thousands of REAL malware and viruses!
Say goodbye to the security protected, sandboxed iOS and walled garden!
Google Android is the new Microsoft Windows in the mobile device market, in terms of viruses and malware!
In addition, other mobile device makers support their devices for a much shorter time than Apple.
Apple supports older hardware for 4-5 years!
Most other mobile product manufacturers only supoort their devices for 2, maybe, 3 years.
Plus reports are that the Google Pixel 2 you are looking at has some problematic touch screen issues.
So, good luck with your purchase of the Google Pixel.
I am sure it is everything you think it is!
Your ipad 2 is obsolete in regards to upgrading to IOS 11. However you can still play games and browse the web and Still do Most things.
Trying to upgrade iPad to iOS 11, currently 9.3.5 It sayes "up to date" and no provision to upgrade, how do I upgrade? Thank you
