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Re: [NEWS] Mac App Store broken for old versions of macOS

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On 2/15/2025 11:25 AM, scole wrote:
> In article <kQQpP.19723$Dov4.1213@fx15.iad>, Percival John Hackworth
> <pjh@nanoworks.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 8, 2025 at 8:57:21 AM PST, "scole" <scole> wrote:
>>
>>> Kinda related gripe; I have a fully-functioning, near-pristine original
>>> iPad that I haven't been able to do a damn thing with for years as it is
>>> unable to connect to the App Store, they cut its iOS off from connecting
>>> to it. In an ideal world, Apple would allow for these outdated machines to
>>> still connect and access older versions of apps (it used to be the case
>>> that I could buy/download an app on my modern iPhone, and then visit the
>>> App Store on the iPad and be able to download an older, compatible version
>>> of the app - this squeezed a few more years of use out of my iPad but
>>> can't even do that now, and I didn't realise that until I had reset it to
>>> factory settings and went to grab a few key apps...).
>>
>> My neighbor had one of these I pads she fished out of her closet while she was
>> attempting to Marie Kondo her condo. The last email we could see on it was
>> over 3 years ago and it wouldn't connect to Gmail any more. Nor would it
>> connect to iCloud or the Apple Store.
>>
>> I couldn't factory reset it as it required logging into iCloud to do so. So I
>> told her to take it to the Apple Store and tell them to shred it.
> 
> This iPad ran two apps perfectly still; NewsTap, an iOS newsreader, and
> NetFlix. If I had known that I wasn't going to be able to be able to get
> back into the App Store to get these two specific apps again, I wouldn't
> have done the factory reset... Lesson learned there, research better
> before doing anything irreversible...
> 
> I did look into jailbreaking it but I went round and round in circles on
> that for several evenings, reading confusing and contradictory wikis and
> following dead links, so I gave up. The iPad is in a storage bin in my
> garage, and will likely stay there forever more.
i dont know about any of that there is many YouTubers with tutorials on 
how to jailbreak that iPad and side-load .IPA files unto it and i in the 
past was even able to downgrade the iPad 1st gen to iOS 3.2.2 and still 
access bluesky and the like through a bridge and even play YouTube via a 
patch i have currently a iPod touch 5G running iOS 6.1.3 and its 
jailbroken with quite a few apps i mostly use it to play Doodle Jump and 
read classical literature via iBooks i also have a iPhone 5C running iOS 
7.1.2 via a tethered downgrade and it works great for most stuff

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