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Recently bought an old iPad 4. Since it's my first apple I don't have any old backups. I wanted to use this iPad only for Netflix on the go. But it won't let me install the app. How can I install any 32bit version apps on this iPad? Thanx.
The reason the iOS App Store won't ask this question immediately/initially from an incompatible iDevice running an older incompatible version of iOS for an initial download for an app is bothersome, confusing and a bit of a mystery.
By making the process of getting more popular, but older iOS versions of an app for older Devices more difficult to get/obtain, this might push an older and uninitiated iDevice user to simply go out a purchase either or new or newer iDevice to rectify/solve this issue for ANOTHER 5-6 years!
The reason I had you download and install iTunes 12.6.5 is that in the newest, more current iTunes version ( 12.7, 12.8 12.9 ), Apple did away with the iTunes feature of saving iOS Apps within iTunes on a computer.
This feature was a staple feature of iTunes for nearly 10 ten years and Apple eliminated this feature, in its own forced wisdom and objection to long time iTunes users, to, once again, help/push/force older iDevice users into thinking about spending money to upgrade both their iDevices, and in some instances, their Mac computers, to more current models.
There are actually three distinct methods to obtain older versions of iOS apps that have moved to a higher minimum iOS version for older iDevices running an older iOS version that cannot be upgraded any farther.
Since your iPad is your first and ONLY Apple mobile device, the ONLY workaround method we could use is this more complicated older iTunes version workaround method, which works, but makes getting some older apps more difficult and tedious to get/obtain, instead of getting the older version of any app directly and straightforward from the older iDevice from the iOS App Store app.
If you need older apps for that iPad, if you have a computer with an older version of iTunes (version 12.6.5 or earlier ), you can try downloading the most recent versions/s of app/s, by accessing the iOS App Store, through iTunes, logging in using your Apple ID and password, and then, download the most recent version of the app/s you like to use on your iPad, to iTunes on your computer, FIRST.
You will need to use an older iTunes version and once it is downloaded and installed on your computer, at launch, hold down the Opt/Alt key on your keyboard while launching this older iTunes version, so you can create a new Tunes library.
Then, back on your iPad, you can try to download the latest app from the iOS App Store and if the developer/s has/have left an older, compatible version of their app/s on Apple's app servers, then you will receive a small window pop-up prompt that states that there is an older version of the app that is compatible with your device.. Would you like to download this version now.
Since the iPad 4 has not had any new iOS upgrades/updates in over a year, I would strongly consider you stop using that year old, default iOS Safari Web browser and seek out other more current and, up to date and more secure third party Web browsers, instead.
It works thanks. I just downloaded and installed Itunes 12.6.5 to my PC and loged in and downloaded netflix app. Than I downloaded it to my ipad and it actualy asked me if I want the older version of app. Why TF it couldn't ask me that in the first place? And yes I have the latest chrome and opera installed ;)
Our Linksys router died recently. After not making it more than about 2 years on our last two Linksys routers, I decided to come back and give Netgear a try. I'd had good luck with them in the past. I purchased a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 Wireless Router. For the most part I am very pleased with our new router. Wired connections are fast and stable. Wi-Fi is fast and stable on either network with one exception. I cannot get Netflix to work consistently over Wi-Fi on our Samsung tablets. Every device that is wired works well and Netflix has no issues. If we use our Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablets to connect, the app will start and, when switching to the library/selection screen, we get the little swirling busy icon for about ten seconds, then the app crashes back to the home screen. We have no issues whatsoever if we turn our phones into mobile hotspots and connect to them. We have no issues on any other Wi-Fi networks that we have attempted to use. The only time we have this problem is on our home Wi-Fi network administered by our R7000 router.
I called tech support a few weeks ago, and they walked me through performing a factory reset on our router, thinking maybe something didn't take quite right during our initial setup. They walked me through initial setup again. Once we were done, bam!, Netflix was back and was working well. However, within a couple of days, the same problem started. The Android Netflix app was crashing on our home network. Again, no problems over mobile data and no problems on any other Wi-Fi network we checked. The problem was only exhibited through our home network. If I reset the network and perform initial setup again, Netflix will work fine again, for a limited time; anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days. Since installing our new router, I have not been able to make it more than three or four days without this problem arising and requiring a factory reset to "fix" it.
It definitely looks like it is a Linksys issue. The funny thing is, until my Linksys router died, we had no issues whatsoever. Everything worked fine with the range extender on our network. It took that router dying and setting up our new Netgear for the issue to manifest. Now though, our issues sound exactly like everyone on that thread.
On the off-chance that this could help with my issue, I looked at the link you provided and followed the instructions there. I came up with with an optimum MTU of 1500. When I check my router settings, MTU Size is already set at 1500.
Ok, it was a stab in the dark. I can't think of any reason why the R7000 could cause your Netflix app to crash. The only thing it does to the traffic is NAT. Most of the time that should be transparent to applications.
Thank you anyway for the suggestion. It was worth a shot. I'm just hoping someone may see the post and it will sound familiar to an issue they had or something and maybe they'll have a suggestion that works. I'll give it a few days and then call tech support again.
The only problem with that is that they want to ask 50 bajillion questions about things not related to the router, seemingly in hopes of steering towards the problem being something other than their equipment. I know they have to rule out certain things to get at the issue and they have a flow chart to follow, but it gets frustrating.
Well, I spent about an hour on the phone with tech support. They were very nice and didn't take me through too many insanely basic steps. They listened to what else I had tried and basically took off from there with very little back-tracking. Even though I was at the most recent firmware version, they had me manually update it. Then we reset to factory defaults and went through initial setup again. After that, they had me change the DNS servers to the Google DNS servers, which didn't help before when I first tried it. Then they took me to QoS Setup to adjust Downstream QoS. We enabled that to prioritize video streaming.
After all of that, the Netflix app starts just fine on our Samsung tablets and videos play and everything works great. Of course, it always did after I performed factory reset and ran setup again. We changed so many things that I don't know if any one of them or the combination of changes fixed it. All I know is that it's working now and I'm good with that, assuming the problem doesn't return in a few days. If it does, I'll post here for anyone that may be having similar issues in the future. If you don't see a reply from me within a few days, maybe a week, you'll know we're still good and that this fixed our problem. If you're experiencing similar issues, I'd give all of this a try and see if it helps you.
OK, well, as hopeful as I was, the last fix didn't take care of my problem. As a matter of fact, my problem only remained "fixed" for approximately 15 minutes before returning. I went on to make two more phone calls to tech support that lasted almost two full hours altogether. They had me changing all sorts of strange and obscure settings and, each successive time, the "fix" lasted for less and less time. To me, it definitely appeared to be a hardware issue that was getting worse and worse. And let's face it, to use Netflix over wi-fi shouldn't take a bunch of jumping through flaming hoops just to get it to work. I mean, I know there may be settings and parameters that can improve performance, but we're talking just getting and keeping it working at all, and it really shouldn't take all that. It should work right out of the box.
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