Maybe you're hanging on to an older iOS device or maybe you just got a great secondhand bargain. Either way, you can't update the device to the latest iOS and so you also can't download the latest versions of your apps.
Since the App Store only ever shows you the latest versions, it looks as if you're stuck unable to get your old apps back. Yet you can do it, and you can do it easily — if you know where to look. Open the App Store on this older device of yours and then tap on the Purchased button. As great as older iOS devices are, they are older and they are usually slower so this won't be quick.
Especially not as you need to wait until the complete list of your previously purchased apps is displayed. Once the list is complete — and all the icons have displayed too — search for the app you want. Just tap on that iCloud download icon and you're done — or very nearly. The trick here is to wait. And maybe wait for a considerable time, too. Don't tap away, don't leave the App Store, just wait.
After some amount of time, the App Store will display a notification saying that no, you can't have this app because it doesn't work with the version of iOS that your device has.
However, it will also offer to let you download a previous version. This is a really smart feature from Apple because it offers you this compatible version but it also makes sure that you're getting the newest that you can. If an app has been updated five times a year, you'd struggle to know which was the very latest you could use but Apple knows and Apple tells you.
Apps get updated for a reason. You're not going to have the same experience with an older version of an app on an older device than you will with a newer setup. Speaking of newer setups, though, it looks as if you can only use this download trick with apps that you have previously bought.
If this older device is your sole iOS one then that's true, but if you have a newer one as well, you can do something more. On the newer iOS device, find and buy an app you want — that you know has a previous version which will work on your older machine.
That's the hard part. There's no surefire way of knowing for certain and the best you can do is take an educated guess. If you can find references online to the app being updated around the date of your older device, you're probably in luck. Buy it on the newer device and then it's in your Purchased history on all your iOS devices. And that means also on your older one. Give it a few minutes for the information to propagate through the App Store but thereafter you should be able to do this download trick and get the previous version that works with your older device.
If for some reason there wasn't a version that ever worked on your older device then there's nothing you can do. Unfortunately, I thought it was a spiffy idea to wipe it before giving it to her Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the older version of this and maybe other? There has to be an archive online somewhere Thanks in advance for your help!
Apple does have a policy of letting you download the latest compatible version of an App to your device, if the app developer allows it. Have you tried to download the Kindle app to the iPad? If Kindle supports downloading earlier versions of it's app, you should see this pop up when attempting a download.
Tap the download button in the pop up and the download should start. Click to expand Well, if you can't find an old version of the Kindle app on an old backup or in iTunes on your computer, there's nothing that can be done. PJankow iPF Noob. I did the same thing for my Mom, but all my apps were iOS 5. Now she has apps under 3 different logins and passwords since my son had it prior to me.
She won't be able to update without knowing all of them, but I figure that there won't be much updating. Last edited: Dec 31, This time the option to download the app for the existing iOS 5. It worked for me with Tapatalk and Dropbox. You must log in or register to reply here.
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