So, your options are really keep using your iPad 2 or purchase a new iPad if you feel you need or want to. Your iPad 2 is NOT, suddenly, becoming obsolete or useless. 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. You have had four years of iOS upgrades and updates. 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 relevant to your current iOS.

Just because your iPad 2 is no longer able to upgrade to the latest iOS doesn't mean your iPad 2 is suddenly useless. The same iPad 2 and 3 users who whined, moaned, groaned and vehemently complained that both iOS 8 and 9 slowed down the performance of their iPad 2 models to a crawl, would come back, once again, in angry droves, with even more complaints of severe slowdowns under iOS 10 or iOS 11. Plus, the iPad 2 and 3 are the only two unsupported models left that use the much outdated 30 pin dock connector. 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. Since iOS 8, older iPad models such as the iPad 2, 3 and 4 have only been getting the most basic of iOS features. Why would you want to even consider upgrading an older iPad, anyways? In addition, iOS 11 is now for newer 64-bit hardware iDevices, now.Īll older iPads ( iPad 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1st generation iPad Mini ) are 32-bit hardware devices incompatible with iOS 11and all newer, future versions of iOS. Most iPads have, at least 1 GB of RAM and all newer iPads have 2 GBs or more of internal RAM, now, which is plenty of RAM to run newer versions of iOS. No where near enough RAM to sufficiently run either iOS 10 or 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 OR iOS 11!Īlso, both iPad 2 and 1st gen iPad Mini have a paltry 512 MBs ( NOT GBs ) of internal RAM. The iPad 2, 3 and 1st generation iPad Mini are all ineligible and excluded from upgrading to iOS 10 AND iOS 11.

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