Originally Posted by musiclover
Worse thing about ipads is once the OS is upgraded a number of versions then it's virtually impossible to download an app from the app store that will work, and it seems you can't upgrade the ipad to a later version either.

This issue comes because the newer models have newer hardware and they don't see a reason to pay the code monkeys to update the older OS. Also doing that would create competition for themselves when they much prefer selling new hardware. I bought my mini 2 in 2015 and it updated to 12.5.7 in January, which is the last one they will do.