Will ipad mini be supported for ios 10 or 11?

See the chart below to determine whether you can upgrade your device and to what you can upgrade. If you do not have a Software Update option present on your iDevice, then you are trying to upgrade to iOS 5 or higher. You will have to connect your device to your computer and open iTunes to update.

iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad iOS Compatibility Chart

Device iOS Version

iPhone 1 iOS 3.1.3

iPhone 3G iOS 4.2.1

iPhone 3GS iOS 6.1.x

iPhone 4 iOS 7.1.x

iPhone 4S iOS 9.x.x

iPhone 5 iOS 10.x.x

iPhone 5c iOS 10.x.x

iPhone 5s iOS 11.x.x

iPhone 5se iOS 11.x.x

iPhone 6 iOS 11.x.x

iPhone 6 Plus iOS 11.x.x

iPhone 7 iOS 11.x.x

iPhone 7 Plus iOS 11.x.x

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iPod Touch 1 iOS 3.1.3

iPod Touch 2 iOS 4.2.1

iPod Touch 3 iOS 5.1.1

iPod Touch 4 iOS 6.1.x

Pod Touch 5 iOS 9.x.x

iPod Touch 6 iOS 11.x.x

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iPad 1 iOS 5.1.1

iPad 2 iOS 9.x.x

iPad 3 iOS 9.x.x

iPad 4 iOS 10.x.x

iPad 5 iOS 11.x.x

iPad Pro 12.9” iOS 11.x.x

iPadPro 9.7” iOS 11.x.x

iPad Mini & Mini Retina iOS 11.x.x

iPad mini 2 iOS 11.x.x

iPad mini 3 iOS 11.x.x

iPad mini 4 iOS 11.x.x

iPad Air iOS 11.x.x

iPad Air 2 iOS 11.x.x

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Select the method most appropriate for your situation.

Upgrading iOS

1. How to update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

2. iPhone Support

3. iPod Touch Support

4. iPad Support

a. Updating Your iOS from iOS 5

Tap Settings > General > Software Update

If an update is available there will be an active Update button. If you are current,

then you will see a gray screen with a message saying your are up to date.

b. If you are still using iOS 4— Updating your device to iOS 5 or later.

c. Resolving update problems

1. iOS - Unable to update or restore

2. iOS- Resolving update and restore alert messages

iOS 11

iPhone

• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone SE
• iPhone 5s

iPad

• 12.9-inch iPad Pro (first-generation)
• 12.9-inch iPad Pro (second-generation)
• 9.7-inch iPad Pro
• 10.5-inch iPad Pro
• iPad (fifth-generation)
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Air
• iPad mini 4
• iPad mini 3
• iPad mini 2

iPod touch

iPod touch (6th generation)

iPhone compatible with iOS 10

• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone SE
• iPhone 5s
• iPhone 5c
• iPhone 5

iPad compatible with iOS 10

• iPad Pro 12.9 inch model
• iPad Pro 9.7 inch model
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Air
• iPad 4th generation
• iPad Mini 4
• iPad Mini 3
• iPad Mini 2

iPod Touch compatible with iOS 10

iPod Touch 6th generation

No.

The iPad 2, 3 and 1st generation iPad Mini are all ineligible and excluded from upgrading to iOS 10 OR 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, 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 in the near future, 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 1st gen iPad Mini will still work and function as it always has, but will no longer receive any more app updates sometime in the foreseeable future.

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!

Currently, your 1st gen iPad Mini is STILL continuing to receive app updates under iOS 9.3.5, but look for this trend to end at some near future point in time.

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 release of iOS 11, which will render all older 32 bit iDevices obsolete, in time.

Good Luck to You!

iPad Mini 1 is not compatible with iOS 10. iPad mini 2,3,4 are.