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

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 In an ideal world, Apple would allow for these outdated machines to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.