Good news for owners of a "less new" iOS device. Did you think that Apple was going to leave you in the gutter? Not this time. iOS 9, Apple's next mobile operating system to be released in September this year, can be installed on iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. The Cupertino thing shows that their customers are important to them, not as many say when they say that they make their devices obsolete to force us to buy a new one.
If we take into account its releases, the iPad 2 is from the spring of 2011, which makes it already have more than 4 years of support. The iPhone 4S is a little younger, from September 2011, but will still have a minimum support of 4 years. Although what I am saying is not entirely true and I will explain why after the jump.
Both the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S will be able to install iOS 9, that I have already said, but that does not mean that at the moment they update they will stop receiving support. They will be compatible with the most modern operating system until the next one is released, which will be a year from now. In summary, the iPad 2 will have a 5-year support, it is said soon, and the iPhone 4S only half a year less.
Today's keynote has fulfilled all the rumors that were expected, so there is another rumor that is very important that has yet to be demonstrated and is nothing other than the possibility that iOS 9 will make the iPad 2 fluid again worthy of the Apple device that it is. And the iPhone 4S, which is not too bad, will also see its performance become more solvent.
List of devices compatible with iOS 9
- iPhone 4S
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 5C
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 6
- 6 iPhone Plus
- iPod Touch 5th generation
- iPad 2
- iPad 3
- iPad 4
- iPad Air
- iPad Air 2
- iPad Mini
- iPad Mini 2
- iPad Mini 3
IOS 9 is expected to be publicly released in September. Starting today, developers can already download the first beta and non-developers will have a beta available in July.
I have an ipad 2 and if ios 9 correct the hangs and the slowness of my ipad blessed be….!
Victoria Marian Avila González
How good I feel happy I have an iphone4s
I will not have any problem with my ipad air (ipad 5)
I have an iphone4s with ios8 and it became a brick ... However, I left my ipad2 with ios7 and it goes like the first day ... Apple does not force us to change devices with its "updates" let me smile ... X)
Be careful that here you cannot criticize or insinuate anything negative about Manzanita, not even if it is true 🙂
It is true, the good thing about Apple is that it updates the entire family of its products on the same day, and with products from 5 years ago. I have many gadgets, but without a doubt, my wife's iPhone 4s and iPad 2, without a doubt the ones that have given the best results. Now, I left them in iOS 7 out of fear, I read many complaints with 8, to see if 9 does something special for them or if I keep leaving them in ios7, if the latest games do not go I don't care.
I just installed 9 on my iPad 2 and it is being an ordeal, it goes off the internet continuously. It goes fatal. Will it be possible to go back to 7?
9.0.2 improves the behavior of iPad 2 with respect to 8. But it shows with 9.0.2, the previous ones were not effective, to see if as they polish the 9 it ends up behaving in a suitable way ..., but for now the best for a long time, and it is very important to have the device with an adequate capacity occupancy level and without saturation.