Cant download apps on old ipad reddit

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See also apple. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Chad Chad 3 3 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. God I hate Apple's planned obsolescence. The apps worked fine when the iPad came out Very clever: Apple won't let any apps work on the old iPad rendering it useless, forcing you to get a new one!

Works like a charm! Martin Martin 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. The how to fix it seems to be answered by the earlier posters. Here to the why: When writing a program, one can choose pretty freely how compatible it is with prior versions of iOS.

Some minority of user have been turning ON and leaving ON iCloud backups continuously backing up on a constant and daily basis. If you are one of these users, in Settings App, tap your Apple ID, then tap iCloud, then find iCloud backup and turn off iCloud backup and only turn this on to do daily backups either when you are not using your iPad for a prolonged period of time like when you are sleeping , then turn iCloud backups OFF when actually using your iPad.

Only perform your backups on a lesser time schedule. Like I stated, the older compatible version of the Netflix app will make itself automatically available to your older ipad 2 once the most recent version is downloaded to a newer iOS 10 or 11 compatible iDevice OR when you download the current Netflix version to an older iTunes version on a computer.

Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: mariagiuliax mariagiuliax. I tried to download Netflix and apparently my Ipad is too old to support the app I'm really disappointed with Apple at this stage as the products you sell are not cheap and also if you conserve well after a while they can't be use with the new products as app or videos or photos etc Is it correct?

Thanks Maria Giulia. More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Jun 9, AM in response to mariagiuliax In response to mariagiuliax Netflix on iPad 2 is not supported. Netflix requires iOS View answer in context. Loading page content.

Reply Helpful 5 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. This Thanksgiving,. The battle just got real. Have you participated yet? If not,. Written by Dhvanesh. Step 1. Launch App Store on your iOS device. Step 2. Now, search the app you wish to re-install. Step 3. Once you have found the app, go ahead and install it as usual. Open iTunes.