The Mac App Store makes buying and installing Mac apps a fairly easy process by taking care of all of the heavy lifting involved. The Mac App Store will both download an app to your Mac and start the installation process. Unlike before, installing an older version of an iOS app is pretty simple. How to View App Store Subscriptions Status on iPhone, iPad, and iTunes App Store.

It was pretty exciting news when Apple to install older versions of iOS apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, but if you’ve tried to download a new app that requires a newer OS than your device has, you’ve probably been stumped. It happened to me recently. I was looking for ways to get more space for my wife, and if you download the email client (Gmail only at present), Dropbox will give you an additional 1 GB of space. That’s pretty good for just downloading an app! I sent a Dropbox invitation from her Mac to one of my less used email addresses, created a new Dropbox account, and attempted to download Mailbox on my for that extra gigabyte of storage.

Sorry, the App Store informed me, but this app requires iOS 7, so you can’t load and install it on your old iPhone running iOS 6. After all I’d heard about the App Store allowing you to download the last version of an app to support your iOS version, I was frustrated.

I used to have a UK itunes account since i lived in london, but last year i moved to the states. And since all my funds are now in US banks i had to make a new itunes account with a US credit card, but i can't find a way to change the itunes account on my iphone. It remains as the UK one. Is there any way to remove that account and add a new itunes account on my phone too? To change the Apple ID / iCloud Account* associated with a specific Mac user account, you’ll want to be logged into the user account you wish to change. Changing the associated Apple ID means logging out of the existing Apple account, and then logging into the new one. Create a new admin user account for yourself. Log into this account and delete the old account. You should now be able to register it under your Apple ID. If you move or get a new credit card, you can manage your account information in iTunes on your Mac. Launch iTunes on your Mac. Click on Accounts in the app menu in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen. How to switch registration for itunes account for a mac book pro.

What good is this new feature if it doesn’t really work? The Solution I emailed Dropbox asking what to do, and while waiting for a response, I decided to install Mailbox on my, which is running iOS 7, and get an extra gigabyte of storage for my main account. The app installed and ran without a hitch, and my Dropbox account now has over 20 GB of free storage! After that, I went back to my iPhone 3GS with iOS 6 to try installing Mailbox again – and it worked. I guess that’s because I had previously downloaded a current version of Mailbox, even if it had been just a few minutes earlier and it was a version that doesn’t work with iOS 6.

So here’s the solution to installing new apps to your old version of iOS, and it won’t work for everyone. You’ll need to use an iDevice with a version of iOS that supports the current version of the app, make sure you’re logged in with the same ID on both devices, and simply install the app on the newer device. Now when you try to install an older version of the app with your iDevice running an older version of iOS, you should have no problem. The App Store should show you the cloud-with-arrow icon indicating that you’ve previously downloaded the app to some iDevice with the same user ID. It’s an odd workaround, and perhaps Apple will eventually make it possible to install previous versions without having to use an iDevice with an iOS version that supports the current version of the app, but until then, at least we have a workaround. Keywords: #lastcompatibleversion Short link: searchword: previousversion.

I haven’t really tried it but I’m guessing it should also work if you download the app via iTunes since the phone will also show the cloud with arrow icon, i used that trick a few months ago when WhatsApp was still a paid app and they made it free for a few days since there’s no iPhone 3G support i couldn’t download the app but I was already planning to get a newer device so I downloaded the app using iTunes on my Mac and months later when I got an iPhone 4 i downloaded the app for free since it showed the arrow icon indicating I had already purchased the app. It appears that iOS 4.2.1 users don’t need to pre-purchase their apps on a Mac or PC or newer iOS device; this is only an issue for iOS 5 devices and up, like the iPhone 3GS and 1st gen iPad. I’ve downloaded several “last compatible version” apps to my iPod Touch 2nd gen. Without having to purchase them on another device. I found this article a little puzzling when I first read it last month, since I never had this problem.