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Has Apple stopped issuing updates for the IPad 2?

HHas Apple stopped updating the os for the iPad 2?

An iPad 2 cannot update beyond iOS 8.x.x.

* message edited by:  CS

The iPad 2 can not be upgraded beyond 9.3.5.

The iPad 2, 3 and 1st generation iPad Mini are all ineligible and excluded from upgrading to iOS 10.

The farthest these devices can be updated to is iOS 9.3.5.

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 the 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.

Plus, these are the only two supported models left that use the much outdated 30 pin dock connector.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.

Plus, the myriad of release of iOS 10, at the moment, seems riddled with bugs and undocumented feature omissions that current iOS upgraders are, currently, struggling with.

FYI,

Just because your iPad 2i is no longer able to upgrade to the latest iOS doesn't mean your Pad 2i is suddenly useless.

Your iPad 2will 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.

Good Luck to you!

Unfortunately, yes... The iPad 2 is no longer supported by Apple.

The iPad 2 is stuck at version 9.3.5, and won't get any more major updates.

Apple dropped support for the A5 and A5X chips with iOS 10, therefore dropping support with the iPad 2.

Don't worry! At least you can still install a lot of 32-bit apps! (Because iOS 11 happened and killed 32-bit.)

...however, there is a drawback.

Have you ever heard... of the BroadPwn?

Yes, my friend, there's malware out near the iPhones, and BroadPwn is affecting devices left and right, iPad 2 included. And no, Apple isn't patching it.

At this time, it is very dangerous to use an iPad 2.

Hope this helps! Have a good day ^^

最後更新：2017-09-23 18:44:33

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