Got to play with an iPad 2 on iOS 4 yesterday

[Woodcrest64]

I got a chance to play with an iPad 2 yesterday running iOS 4. I will say it ran the OS fairly snappy but today's websites really slow it down . I didn't think the Internet would have that much of an impact but it did. Not every website slowed it down but Engadget, CNET and few others did. It was my sister's iPad who refuses to update the Apps and or iOS . It does everything she needs it to so why update . You could argue for security reasons for sure but she does not do anything that is information sensitive on it . Just interesting to see how the iPad 2 would hold up running iOS 4 today.

 

[MyAppleWorld]

It would be cool to see a video

 

[musicpenguy]

It would be cool to see a video

I've still got an original iPhone running iOS 1.0.1 - fun to go back and see where it all started

 

[chfilm]

yes I can barely remember how it looked like !

 

[Ghost31]

It would be cool to see a video

I'll second this. Would be fun to see a video of this and maybe a first gen iPhone running current stuff

 

[Videomanmac]

I still have an iPad 2, but not with iOS 4 on it.

 

[bufffilm]

It would be interesting to poll ipad2 owners as to what ios version their iPad 2 is currently running.

My ipad2 is on 7.12 (and JB)...the only thing I wish I had put on this was iheartradio - apparently now, it needs to be on iOS8. I do have Pandora with skip tweak... so I get by. (If anyone knows of something else that would allow me to listen to radio stations, I'd love to know,)

 

[FeliApple]

It would be interesting to poll ipad2 owners as to what ios version their iPad 2 is currently running.

My ipad2 is on 7.12 (and JB)...the only thing I wish I had put on this was iheartradio - apparently now, it needs to be on iOS8. I do have Pandora with skip tweak... so I get by. (If anyone knows of something else that would allow me to listen to radio stations, I'd love to know,)

Tunein Radio, that's the one I use

 

[kiranmk2]

Has anyone tried one of the ad/content-blockers on iOS 9? Would be interesting to see how much (if at all) this improves web performance on older devices.

 

[bufffilm]

Tunein Radio, that's the one I use

Thanks for the recommendation...surprised that the free version needs ios8 whereas the paid version ran on ios7.

 

[Erdbeertorte]

Has anyone tried one of the ad/content-blockers on iOS 9? Would be interesting to see how much (if at all) this improves web performance on older devices.

Apple says:

"Apps containing content blocking extensions for Safari on iOS are available only on 64-bit devices, due to performance limitations of 32-bit devices."

• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone 5s
• iPad Pro
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Air
• iPad mini 2
• iPad mini 3
• iPad mini 4
• 6th generation iPod touch

 

[kiranmk2]

Apple says:

"Apps containing content blocking extensions for Safari on iOS are available only on 64-bit devices, due to performance limitations of 32-bit devices."

• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone 5s
• iPad Pro
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Air
• iPad mini 2
• iPad mini 3
• iPad mini 4
• 6th generation iPod touch

bugger

 

[TechFann]

I updated my Uncle's iPad 2 from iOS 4.3 to iOS 8.4.1 over the summer. It was weird to see how much iOS has changed since. I even went under setting to check for updates and remembered that a computer free update didn't happen until iOS 5.

 

[musicpenguy]

I'll second this. Would be fun to see a video of this and maybe a first gen iPhone running current stuff

I'll put it on the to do list! Some stuff just doesn't work like the YouTube and Maps app