How to Download Old App Versions to Your Older DeviceĪs we noted above, if you fire up an old iPad using iOS 5 and try to download darn near anything from the App Store, iOS 5 is so ancient that installation will almost certainly fail for 99% of apps (even if that app is old enough to have an ancient iOS 5-era version). With that in mind, let’s take a look at how to stock up your aging iPad 1 with apps, frustration free. You can’t download an iOS 5 version of a six month old app that never had a version compatible with iOS 5. What they don’t tell you, though, is that you can easily (no jailbreak required) and legally (no piracy required) download old versions of applications to your older iOS devices with a pretty simple trick.īefore we walk you through that trick there is one minor and obvious caveat: the trick only works on apps that once had versions compatible with your OS.
Search for an application in the App Store on your iPad 1, for example, and the App Store app will tell you that the app can’t be downloaded because it requires a device running iOS 7 (or 8, or 9), and therefore can’t be installed on your iPad…even if there was an iOS 5 version of the app at some point in the past.
On the surface, this is a perfectly sensible thing for Apple to do: why would they ever want you to download older, buggier, and potentially less secure software when there’s an updated version available? When you’re on an older device, however, this means an app may not be compatible with your old version of iOS. WhatsApp parent company Meta has made Facebook available on iPad, but WhatsApp and Meta's Instagram app have never had native iPad availability, despite many users asking for the feature.The way Apple has the App Store configured, you are always directed towards the newest version of an application. WhatsApp is testing multi-device support that allows the desktop and web versions of the app to be used without an iPhone, functionality that paves the way for the iPad app. Right now, WhatsApp is available on the iPhone, the desktop, and the web, but an iPad-specific app has been left out. That would be really important for a tablet app, to be able to use the app even if your phone isn't on. If I have multi-device on, I can turn my phone off or lose my network connection and still get messages on my desktop. "Our web and our desktop apps now have that. "We did a lot of work on the technology for supporting multiple devices," he said. Though Cathcart did not commit to a release date for a WhatsApp iPad app, the Meta-owned company already has the underlying structure in place for creating one. In an interview with The Verge, Cathcart said that people have long been asking for an iPad app, and that the company would "love to do it." There could be a WhatsApp app for iPad coming in the near future, according to WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart.
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