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OnceBitten

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#296352 10-Jun-2022 12:40
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ok so we have an older iPad bought new about 2014?

 

I installed Chrome on it back then and it has worked fine since, but recently some websites (mainly accommodation websites) haven't worked properly - e.g. you click on a link to bring up a list of available rooms at a motel / hotel and it comes up blank. or you go into a website and you get a message saying 'Your browser is not supported / out of date' and has a list of browsers to download (one of them being chrome)

 

 

 

anyway I tried unsuccessfully to try and 'update' Chrome, but it wouldn't or couldn't update for some reason

 

so then I had a stroke of Genius (or a blonde moment - depending how you look at it) and deleted google chrome completely, then went to re-install it..... it wouldn't come up in the app store, so I went online and it said you need iOS 14 or later? looked at the settings on the iPad and it said 11.06 or something (I'm at work at the moment - iPad is at home)

 

there are no updates available for the iPad according to the settings

 

Safari is ok, but I much prefer chrome... does anyone know how I can get Chrome back onto the iPad?

 

 

 

any help would be appreciated thanks 

 

 


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  #2924718 10-Jun-2022 13:45
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It sounds like you have an iPad Air (1st gen) which was sold from late 2013 to late 2014. The last supported release on that model was iOS 12.5.5, so if that is what you have then you’re SOL for updating Chrome.

You should still be able to download the last compatible version by going to your purchases list within the App Store - if I recall correctly there’s an Updates tab where you can find them (sorry it’s changed between then and now and I don’t remember exactly!)

If your iPad is an Air 2 then you should be able to update to the current release of iPad OS - 15.5



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  #2924723 10-Jun-2022 13:56
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konfusd: It sounds like you have an iPad Air (1st gen) which was sold from late 2013 to late 2014. The last supported release on that model was iOS 12.5.5, so if that is what you have then you’re SOL for updating Chrome.

You should still be able to download the last compatible version by going to your purchases list within the App Store - if I recall correctly there’s an Updates tab where you can find them (sorry it’s changed between then and now and I don’t remember exactly!)

If your iPad is an Air 2 then you should be able to update to the current release of iPad OS - 15.5

 

 

 

thanks for that... I go into the app store and chrome is not listed there when I search

 

from memory the version of chrome that was on the iPad wasn't an app it was the actual website... because sometimes I'd open my gmail in Chrome and get a message asking it I wanted to go on the app and I always said 'no thanks'

 

 

 

I might plug the iPad into the Macbook as it hasn't synced with apple iTunes for ages


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