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Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Re: Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Post by sphars »

Semi-adjacent: I was given an iPad mini (1st or 2nd gen, not sure) by a former neighbor. Unfortunately it is still locked to their Apple account and I've lost contact with them.

Is there anything I can do to unlock it and use it?

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Post by __rito__ »

gigatree wrote: post #7
blitzar wrote: post #5

Tried to offload to a friend with a 3 year old and not much money. They threw it out and bought an iPad Pro for the little one.

Ah, so that explains why they didn’t have much money…

Why would a 3 year old have much money in the first place?

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Post by leobg »

sixtram wrote: post #13

I have two iPad Airs, first generation, but the latest YouTube app no longer works on them. Skype and Teams don't work on old iOS either. Do you have any ideas other than using them as photo frames?

I had the same problem. All SSL connections are failing. I now run a copyparty server, without SSL, allowing my iPad to stream audiobooks and videos.

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Post by owenmakes »

leobg wrote: post #16
sixtram wrote: post #13

I have two iPad Airs, first generation, but the latest YouTube app no longer works on them. Skype and Teams don't work on old iOS either. Do you have any ideas other than using them as photo frames?

I had the same problem. All SSL connections are failing. I now run a copyparty server, without SSL, allowing my iPad to stream audiobooks and videos.

Ok this seems like a great idea. You need to watch/listen everything from the browser though right?

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Post by owenmakes »

Vuska wrote: post #4

The iPad 2 can be downgraded to iOS 6.1.3 or 8.4.1. Both offer better performance than iOS 9 and have untethered jailbreaks. Once downgraded and jailbroken you can sideload hours and hours worth of games. A lot from that era are IAP-free. I use an iPhone 5 downgraded to iOS 6 (tethered) as an iPod. I love how I can unplug my headphones from my work Mac, plug directly into the phone (no adapter required!) and it effec…

Got it downgraded, and it is a much better experience. It is actually useful, though I have yet to play around and see which apps I can load on this

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads?

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

Vuska wrote: post #4

The iPad 2 can be downgraded to iOS 6.1.3 or 8.4.1. Both offer better performance than iOS 9 and have untethered jailbreaks. Once downgraded and jailbroken you can sideload hours and hours worth of games. A lot from that era are IAP-free. I use an iPhone 5 downgraded to iOS 6 (tethered) as an iPod. I love how I can unplug my headphones from my work Mac, plug directly into the phone (no adapter required!) and it effec…

I know what you mean, but a pseudomorph seems to be a geology term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomorph

What you meant was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

Skeuomorphic means designing digital interfaces to resemble physical-world objects to make them more intuitive and familiar to users. Like how iBooks was made to look like an actual bookcase.

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