All iPads Jail breaking old iPad to upload latest iOS software.

[ssymes007]

The old apple iPads can’t be used anymore as apple won’t let you update to the latest software. However, if I jailbroke the iPad could I then upload the latest iOS software?

 

[arw]

No, that's not how jailbreaking works.
Modifying and downgrading to formerly supported versions, yes/maybe.
But not once have I read of successfully installing a newer version than intended by Apple.
And I don't expect it to happen as each new version gets more mature/secure while at the same time the efforts/inducements for finding a jailbreak decrease.

 

[ssymes007]

Many thanks for your speedy reply. So in a nutshell I won’t ever be able to update an old iPad with the latest iOS if it’s been unable to automatically update via air to air?

 

[rui no onna]

Many thanks for your speedy reply. So in a nutshell I won’t ever be able to update an old iPad with the latest iOS if it’s been unable to automatically update via air to air?

Yep.

Frankly, the latest firmware tends to be laggy on the oldest supported models so I wouldn't want to install it anyway on models that are even older.

 

[ssymes007]

The reason I’d want to is due to the apps support. You seem to lose some apps when you don’t update. The apps all load onto the iPad but don’t work.

 

[FeliApple]

No, updating an unsupported iPad has never been possible, and even if it were, you wouldn’t want to. Performance and battery life would be so poor so as to render the device unusable, and 1GB of RAM is so little for the current OS that I doubt it could run it, anyway.

Updates do enough harm as they are, if Apple were to extend support even further it would be a fiasco, like it was back with the iPhone 4 and 4s, and the iPhone 5 and 5c.