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iPadOS 17 Drops Support for These iPads

SpringKid said:
Curious question: What are you using those horsepowers for? Again, still on the iPad Pro from 2018 here, but there’s absolutely nothing I do with it that makes me feel “Oh this feels slow, I should probably upgrade soon”.
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Nothing different, and I knew that.

My iPhones got slow over time, and so did my relatives' iPads, so when shopping for my iPad I knew that the M1 was already out (in the MBA), and the amount of RAM on the older device was a concern (which I bet is THE reason why the old machines lose support). So I waited.

Once M1 dropped into the iPad, the decision was easy and the time to buy was right. I keep my devices for as long as I can and my average is around 10 years, because it's all personal, non-heavy-lifting stuff.

So a 1TB iPad with 16GB of RAM and an M2 MBA with 24GB of RAM means I'm probably good 'till the Thirties.
 
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Little Endian said:
Yup hanging on to my 2018 11” iPad Pro. Sadly this is my 3rd one!!! First one lasted 2 years and 2 months before I accidentally dropped it with a crappy case. Ouch!! just barely out of Apple Care+ warranty. Had to pay for out of warranty replacement. Unlucky again when that replacement got cracked due to a seat belt buckle a little over a year later. Paid for out of warranty replacement again.

Both times I thought about upgrading to a newer model but the 2018 iPad pro was just that good. It was cheaper to pay for the out of warranty replacement of $499 for a 256gb LTE model than springing for equivalent newer model replacement. The newer models just didn’t add enough features or performance gains to warrant upgrading.

Here we are in 2023 and this 2018 iPad pro performs just as well as my 2022 iPhone 14 pro. Probably won’t upgrade until 2025.
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Yep I’m hoping to get another 2 years out of mine.
 
Open Core Legacy Patcher works well and allows older Macs to run the current OS version. I have an unsupported, in fact a legacy, Mid 2013 MBPro running Ventura fully updated.

I don’t know if it will be able to run Sonoma because it lacks a T2 security chip. I believe I read that Apple was dropping support for all Intel Macs with out T2s.
 
txscott said:
Open Core Legacy Patcher works well and allows older Macs to run the current OS version. I have an unsupported, in fact a legacy, Mid 2013 MBPro running Ventura fully updated.

I don’t know if it will be able to run Sonoma because it lacks a T2 security chip. I believe I read that Apple was dropping support for all Intel Macs with out T2s.
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The 2019 iMac that does not have a T2 is still supported in Sonoma.
 
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This is good to know for my workplace (Apple Configurator 2 automatically downloads and installs the latest OS that an iOS device will support when wiping and resetting one). Plus, at least my 7th gen iPad I bought from there will be able to run iPadOS 17!
 
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iModFrenzy said:
Didn’t the first gen iPad Pro come out the same date the dropped Macs did? Seems like they’ve been fair about it.
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If there is a case and it's very nasty of Apple to cut support for an iPad with a ARM SOC

As much as I can understand that that they want to get read of Intel Max I find the cut for a 2018 iPad not very classy
 
2016 iPad Pro 9.7 checking in. This is a sad day.

Seven years is a decent amount of time for a device to stay supported with updates, so I can't complain too much, but I must say that as long as you got the battery replaced in the past couple of years as I did, this device is more than fine to keep going. It's a shame they refused to put 17 on it, but I understand that 2GB of RAM isn't a lot to work with -- but this is a better argument for not having Apple skimp on RAM in their devices than it is an argument for withdrawing software updates.

I suppose this starts the clock ticking on my search for a replacement. Hopefully the next Pro will have OLED and a camera on the landscape rail. Throw in some actual colors and I'd be in heaven, but I understand that for Apple "Pro" means boring and dull appearance. Can't have everything!
 
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It’s the end of software support for my favourite iPad ever, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The 9.7-inch design language lives one more year I guess, but the best 9.7-inch iPad has been discontinued. It’s to be expected I guess, the 2GB of RAM probably aren’t enough.

This also means that I was able to keep my 9.7-inch iPad Pro exactly at the middle of the support run, iOS 12. I’ll keep using it, it’s so flawless.
 
Electroni said:
I have a first generation iPad Pro 12.9” and it’s disappointing Apple is dropping ipadOS support for it as it has no problems whatsoever running ver. 16 (not sure about the smaller 9.7” first-gen Pro variant since it has half the amount of RAM the 12.9” has).

That said, I believe Apple continues releasing security updates for the previous version of iOS for a year past the release of the new version so I guess I’ll wait until next summer and see what’s available to upgrade to at that point.
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I can tell you that is sadly not the case. My iPad that I chose not to install 16 on so as not to ruin the tv app is stuck on an insecure version. Only the iPads that can’t run 16 are offered the last patch for 15. They released two more patches after they stopped offering them to iPads that won’t take 16.

Apple truly takes a hard line on people that don’t want to update their OS version. I won’t call it an upgrade because that iPad is used only for tv and 16 is a very bad downgrade in that regard.
 
Electroni said:
I have a first generation iPad Pro 12.9” and it’s disappointing Apple is dropping ipadOS support for it as it has no problems whatsoever running ver. 16 (not sure about the smaller 9.7” first-gen Pro variant since it has half the amount of RAM the 12.9” has).

That said, I believe Apple continues releasing security updates for the previous version of iOS for a year past the release of the new version so I guess I’ll wait until next summer and see what’s available to upgrade to at that point.
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I still get occasional updates on an iPad running iOS 12.
 
Looks like my 2011 iPad 2 is still considered obsolete 😠

Still works great though. Unless you want to browse websites and stuff. iOS 6 Safari just doesn't cut it today.
 
Jay-Jacob said:
Shame my iPad Pro 9.7 not supported but I was planning next iPad Air this year if apple release one and expected this happen anyway. Battery getting so bad now my current iPad.
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Same. I just bought a new iPad because my 9.7 pro had reached its limits with iPadOS 16. A little laggy and poor battery life. I knew it was not going to get the next OS update.
 
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klky said:
My 2018 11" iPad Pro lives on! Still the best bang for buck Apple purchase I've made.
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I'm confused...I have the same one...isn't this the 1st gen iPad Pro?
 

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ShinyApps said:
I'm confused...I have the same one...isn't this the 1st gen iPad Pro?
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No, it’s the 3rd-gen iPad Pro. It’s the first generation of the 11-inch variant, but it’s the 3rd-gen, after the 9.7 and 10.5-inch iPad Pros. Apple’s naming convention is awful.
 
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erikkfi said:
2016 iPad Pro 9.7 checking in. This is a sad day.

Seven years is a decent amount of time for a device to stay supported with updates, so I can't complain too much, but I must say that as long as you got the battery replaced in the past couple of years as I did, this device is more than fine to keep going. It's a shame they refused to put 17 on it, but I understand that 2GB of RAM isn't a lot to work with -- but this is a better argument for not having Apple skimp on RAM in their devices than it is an argument for withdrawing software updates.

I suppose this starts the clock ticking on my search for a replacement. Hopefully the next Pro will have OLED and a camera on the landscape rail. Throw in some actual colors and I'd be in heaven, but I understand that for Apple "Pro" means boring and dull appearance. Can't have everything!
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I have both the 1st gen Pro and a 6th gen regular. The Pro is significantly faster than the 6th gen. Load up Minecraft on each and the Pro is in game before the 6th gen even gets to the menu. Weird to me the 6th gen gets the update and the Pro doesn't. Same 2gb ram in both too.

That said, I got my wife the new Air with the M1 and holy-crap is it faster.
 
klky said:
My 2018 11" iPad Pro lives on! Still the best bang for buck Apple purchase I've made.
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Same here. Feels as premium and fast as when I bought it on release day. One of the best devices Apple has ever designed, and I'm hoping we get at least a couple more iPadOS updates out of it before Apple decides it can't keep up.
 
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gammamonk said:
I have both the 1st gen Pro and a 6th gen regular. The Pro is significantly faster than the 6th gen. Load up Minecraft on each and the Pro is in game before the 6th gen even gets to the menu. Weird to me the 6th gen gets the update and the Pro doesn't. Same 2gb ram in both too.

That said, I got my wife the new Air with the M1 and holy-crap is it faster.
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Agreed! I looked at this and, if I have to justify Apple's decision, it's probably down to the raw processing power of the two devices. 6th-gen multi-core is 1405, while for the Pro 9.7 it's 1176. That plus the fact that the 6th gen only started selling in March 2018 -- when the 9.7 was already well out of print -- probably justifies it in their eyes.

But I continue to feel that the best thing Apple could do for the planet is to extend the life-cycle of devices as long as possible, so I don't give them too much slack on this. Joke's on me, though; I'm definitely going to get a new iPad.
 
erikkfi said:
Agreed! I looked at this and, if I have to justify Apple's decision, it's probably down to the raw processing power of the two devices. 6th-gen multi-core is 1405, while for the Pro 9.7 it's 1176. That plus the fact that the 6th gen only started selling in March 2018 -- when the 9.7 was already well out of print -- probably justifies it in their eyes.

But I continue to feel that the best thing Apple could do for the planet is to extend the life-cycle of devices as long as possible, so I don't give them too much slack on this. Joke's on me, though; I'm definitely going to get a new iPad.
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Do you really want that though? Do you really want Apple to push devices beyond what they realistically can with no ability to downgrade? There’s no going back, and I definitely don’t want another A5 on iOS 9 situation, or A6 on iOS 10.

If anything, Apple drops support too late, in my humble opinion.
 
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