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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. More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question.

User profile for user: canering canering. If the app has an "Update" banner, that is usually a good indicator that it is an older version of the app. This is an older version of the Pages app, as indicated by the "Update" banner. If you do not have the version you are looking for in your iTunes library, it may have been replaced by a newer version. When iTunes updates apps, the. If you have not emptied the trash recently, it may still be there.

If you can locate the. NOTE: Do not download. Confirm that the app you want has been added to the library. Then, you can delete the newer version of the app from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. For instructions, see: Deleting, Rearranging and Grouping Apps. To install the older version from iTunes onto your iOS device, you can:. Conduct a sync Drag the app from the Apps section of your Library to your device in iTunes' sidebar Click on your device in the sidebar in iTunes, select the Apps tab at the top of the screen, select "Install" for the app that you want, and click "Apply" in the lower right For the third method listed above:.

When you are done these steps, click the Apply button in the lower right of the iTunes window. A sync should be initiated, and, when complete, the app s in question should be installed on your device. Article ID: AA Not all apps will offer an old version. If WhatsApp decides not to offer it, you won't be able to download it, sorry. Thank you very much for your valuable information.

Is there any app for home button for iOS 4. You won't be able to get WhatsApp on an iPhone 3G since it's not compatible; hacking solutions are not worth the trouble.

If by a home button app, you mean something like AssistiveTouch, I don't know of any. Is there any way to do this from your iPhone? I'm looking to get an older version of NBA 2k13 the v1. If you don't have access to iTunes on a computer, the only other way to be offered an older version of an app is if you had a 2nd iOS device which is compatible with the latest version of the app. Okay thank you.

It's just that I hate the version of the game that I have now and would like the older version back. I cant believe this actually works, it's simple and works exactly how it says and the work around does work, thanks a lot for this help!!! I was becoming so discouraged with my iPad gen 1 hand-me-down.

Not anymore - this workaround works and now my iPad is not just a boat anchor! One important detail I noticed was that when I used it for my iPod Touch 4th Gen after downloading in iTunes, back on the iPod there was an indication on the homepage that the App was downloading, but it never completed.

Then I went back to the App Store on the iPod, re-selected the App, selected install, and hey presto I was asked if I wanted the older version. Thanks one million for this clarification!!! I have a problem. I wish to download shadow fight 2 on a Ipod Touch do not know gen but is has iOS 5 it can run on the operating system yet it crashes on loading screen.

How do I download a older version of the app which will use less processing power? If your iPod is compatible with the latest version of an app, you won't be offered an older one.

The only exception would be if you previously owned an older version of the app and it resides in your iTunes library, in which case you could refer to the "Downgrading Apps" section of this article.

This article allowed me to download older apps into an original iPad. I wonder have you find a solution? I have a go pro 4 and also want to use my old ipod touch 4th gen to control it. Do you know how? A way to get around this would be brilliant. I did everything I could to download the app that I had onto my iPad 1 original , and it installed okay, but when I tap on the app to open it, it goes black and then crashes.

How do I make it work properly please? By matti. It doesn't offer me the possiblity to download the last compatible version. I want to download the Soundcloud app. I guess, I tried to download the app 6 mouth ago and it offered me the last compatible version at that time.

Is it possible that there was a change with the introduction of iOS 8? No, you should still be able to download older versions of apps, there was no change with iOS 8. However, not all developers will let you download older versions of their apps.

I would check with the developer of Soundcloud and see if they offer this. Thank you for this article! NetFlix lives again on my resurrected 3G running albeit slowly iOS4.

Note : These online app repositories let you download APK files of the older version of an app. There are many other sites that host old APK files but not all of them are safe. If you know of any other websites that are equally good as the ones mentioned here, do write it down in the comments section below.

I tried it but my app says i must update it because I have played on the updated app so the app does not work unless I update it so what must I do. This went smoothly. However, the internal microphone is not working. Anyhelpu on this would be appreciated. Your Comment. Your Name. In this world of silicon shortage and scalping of CPUs and GPUs, many are looking at the laptop space to provide them with desktop PC replacement devices.