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IOS device no longer compatible with eBay app

So it has started again, now with my iPad Air and the eBay app.  Apple no longer update my operating system and then apps no longer work. Slowly but surely I’m being forced into having to buy a new device when the existing one is perfectly serviceable. There must be millions of perfectly useable apple devices world wide being thrown away because of this strategy.


Well done eBay for supporting apple in their capitalistic and environmentally unfriendly strategy of making our devices unusable and then forcing us to regularly buy new devices and throw the old ones away. And please don’t tell me I can use my browser instead. I want an app that works! 

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IOS device no longer compatible with eBay app

@stephen4548 No need to buy a new device. If on iOS 15 see bold below.

Instructions here: How to update your eBay app

- Requires Android 10 or later
- Requires iOS 17 or later, but there are directions for iOS 16 users to download an older version of the app

If you have iOS 15 or Android 9 and cannot update to a compatible OS, you can still access eBay from a web browser on your device, and you'll probably want to delete the app so links open in your browser instead of the app.

Read more: eBay UK Announcement

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IOS device no longer compatible with eBay app

You obviously didn’t read the last part of my post; which was; ‘And please don’t tell me I can use my browser instead. I want an app that works! ’ 

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IOS device no longer compatible with eBay app

I didn't miss it. My post was for the benefit of others reading that are looking for a way to access eBay and may want the option.

 

This is a public peer forum. All we can do is try to help our fellow buyers and sellers with the options available. We cannot help it if you don't like the options that are available.

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Oh and by the way. The Amazon app still works just fine so I know where I’ll be ordering from in future.  

Look up the Amazon app for iPad on the app store. It says right there; ‘shopping on your iPad  made easy’. As opposed to the EBay app; ‘ shopping on your IPad, you’ll have to use your browser’. … 

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