Apple ID no longer used under iOS 15?

[Urbanpixels]

Hi Guys,

Thought i'd get my old iPad out to give to one of my children and tried to log into my apple ID to download some apps.

I get the below message, trying to log into 12.3.3 on a iPad mini 3

I have other Apple ID's I've managed to log into iCloud on a iOS 10 device. so what makes my personal apple id different?

I don't see how apple can get away with locking your ID out of older devices? I cannot find any information about this. Wether it's a certain feature or something i can disable.

Does anybody know?

TIA

 

[Nermal]

That message has a couple of typos. Are you sure you haven't entered the account details into a phishing website or something, made to look like iOS?

 

[Urbanpixels]

This is direct from the settings > Apple ID section of a freshly defaulted ipad. Not any other site.

 

[iStorm]

Yeah, that seems odd. Try updating to the latest iOS version (12.5.5).

 

[Urbanpixels]

Yeah, that seems odd. Try updating to the latest iOS version (12.5.5).

I tried this, Same issue.

 

[Urbanpixels]

So, Solved.

I had a recovery contact on my apple ID which forces all devices you use to require iOS15

Once the recovery contact is removed it logged in fine.

Im not sure why my numerous contacts with Apple couldn't tell me this.