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Oh how exciting - now if they only removed their restriction of OS installations on old devices then maybe I could make use of it. As it is it's just another n
by munk-a 6y ago
Oh how exciting - now if they only removed their restriction of OS installations on old devices then maybe I could make use of it. As it is it's just another nail in the coffin for me ever being able to download an app ever again because their app store doesn't do backwards compatibility well and everything needs to go through the app store.
- Angostura 6y agoThe App Store will indeed let you install previous versions of an app if you have an older device.
- Hnaomyiph 6y agoThis needs an asterisks, unless something has changed recently, the steps needed to get an app on an old device are annoying. If I want to install an app on my 3rd gen iPad, I try to install it directly in the app store, it tells me it requires an updated version of iOS. I then have to install the app on my iPhone that's running the latest iOS version, then switch back to the iPad, change the app store account from my partner's to my account, and only then am I allowed to install the previous version of the app.
- Hnaomyiph 6y agoNot sure why this is getting lots of downvotes. EOL devices should be opened up for whatever software a user wants to put on it. Jailbreaking seems like a somewhat viable option, though, but even that comes with its own issues.