I have ipad 9.3.5. Can I upgrade to iOS 10/or iOS 11?

Not True.

I just checked.

The New Yorker magazine app is still minimal iOS version iOS 7 or later.

The New Yorker Magazine by Condé Nast Digital

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-new-yorker-magazine/id370614765?mt=8

The New Yorker TODAY app is iOS 10 or later.

The New Yorker Today by Condé Nast Digital

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-new-yorker-today/id1081530898?mt=8

Not necessarily.

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.

Also, with 1st gen iPad Mini is hardware and functionally equivalent to the 7-year old iPad 2.

You would NOT like the slower, degraded performancd of your current iPad Mini IF you could upgrade to iOS 10 or 11.

Both the iPad 2 and 1st gen IPad Mini share a 1.0 Ghz CPU and only a paltry 512 MBs (NOT GBs) of RAM!

No where enough CPU or RAM power to handle iOS 10 or 11.

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 current of iOS 11, ALL support for older 32 bit iDevices and any iOS 32 bit apps will come to a final end at some later timeframe.

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.

My older iPad 2 and 3 models are still getting app updates regularly on a daily basis.

This is why Apple introduced the new, lower cost 2017 iPad 5 models last April 2017.

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.

So, the decisions are really up to you!

If you decide to stick with your older iPad until it is no longer getting any app updates, I would STOP using that 2-2-1/2 year old Safari web browser and seek out a third party web browser that is STILL currently being updated and supporting iOS 9.3.5.

Here are a few third party web browsers that I know are STILL being updated and supported on iOS 9.

Perfect Web browser

iCab Mobile Web browser

Dolphin Web browser

Maxthon Web browser

Opera Web Browser

Good Luck to You!

I use my iPad mini generation #2 to download The New Yorker magazine on Monday every week, before I get the hard copy on Wednesday or Thursday. This past Monday, I couldn't get the latest issue. After many phone calls and e-mails to the magazine, the reason finally emerged (after help from this chat room) that the App was no longer supported for iPads with less than IOS of 11.0. So......even I don't need the other features of a new iPad very much, I guess I will be forced to upgrade to keep my New Yorker access available.

To be clear: I don't want to spend a chunk of cash on a new iPad, IF I can still download my full New Yorker issue each Monday, which is not a certainty at this point. This coming Monday morning, 3/26, I should be able to download the April 2 issue if what you say is true. The New Yorker people have told me otherwise, however. I guess I will find out whether I can keep my old mini or will trade it in for a new one pretty soon.

Thanks

Tap on the links in my post to you.

It will bring you right into the iOS App Store, right to the app where you can read the the iOS requirements, yourself!

You don't need to take my word for it, at all.

That is why I posted these links, so you can see for yourself.

If you use The New Yorker App, your iPad Mini running iOS 9.3.5 supports the app, as the minimum iOS version is iOS 7 and later!

Check this out for yourself.

Customer service reps don’t always have the right or correct answers or solutions.

In most cases, here in these forums, experienced volunteer users that are regular contributors here, know more than many Apple staffers or “Geniuses” in the Apple Stores.

Especially true for many of Apple’s older products and software.

Take a look at my links for yourself.

Good Luck to You!

In fact, it was one of these Apple chat rooms that told me about the old mini iPads not supporting 11.0. The number of contacts I had with various New Yorker personnel, by phone and email, would be comical if it were not so frustrating and annoying. It took them three days to come up with a diagnosis and a solution (buying the new iPad or waiting till Friday to download the issue). Why would that be helpful if I already had the hard copy in my hands by Friday? The point is to read it early in the week since it takes so much time to get through it.

Can't wait to see what happens on Monday............

So, I was able to download today's New Yorker just as I used to do. Hmm....what was all that nonsense about, anyway, last week?

Therefore, I am keeping my old mini (for now) and hope not to run into any more roadblocks.

Thanks again for your help.

1st gen iPad Mini can only be upgraded to iOS 9.3.5.

It’s hardware is too underpowered to running any newer versions of iOS.

Does this mean I need to replace my iPad mini with a new one?

Well,

If you want to spend a chunk of cash on a new iPad, just to keep a digital magazine subscription going, that is your decision.

Good Luck to You!