

Some of these attacks are pretty serious, and can allow an adversary to gain control of your device.Īpple has explained why automatic updates aren’t applied straight away to all iPhones. This means the only way to ensure serious security holes are fixed is by manually applying iOS updates.Īpple devices are increasingly being targeted by adversaries, with multiple security holes fixed this year that were already being used in attacks. In fact, despite having automatic updates turned on, many iPhone users are left waiting days or weeks until after new iOS versions are released. As I’ve mentioned before, Apple’s automatic security updates aren’t very quick in arriving to iPhones. But in my experience that's not too common apps usually work just fine.Rapid security updates can’t come soon enough.

Most of them will work, but sometimes even once you have the app installed on your it still won't run correctly. This method should at least allow you to have most apps on your outdated device. You'll get a message that says "The current version requires iOS 6.1 or later, but you can download the last compatible version," just hit Download. If the iTunes on the computer and your iPad are both signed into the same Apple ID, and the iPad is connected to the internet, then go on your iPad/iPhone to App Store -> Purchased -> tap on an individual app you want to install.

Then go to the iTunes store and download all the apps you want to be on your iPad/iPhone. Go onto your computer (it doesn't matter if it's a PC or a Mac) and open the iTunes app. On your old iPhone/iPad, go to Settings -> Store -> set Apps to Off. Here's the easiest way to download apps onto an old iPhone/iPad that doesn't support downloading apps through the App Store (if you're getting an error that you need a greater software version to download): The only workaround for now is to install a precedent version of iTunes (see this answer) and follow the rest of this answer. Now that iTunes can not manage Apps, you’re not able to side load them over USB. ITunes 12.7 or later makes this answer into a no - you can’t do it.
