Man buys first iPad from 2010 and then tries to jailbreak it to install Minecraft but the process is anything but easy

A man bought a 2010 first-generation iPad for cheap on eBay to see if he could ‘jailbreak’ it, but the process did not go smoothly.

Jailbreaking is the term given to removing restrictions imposed on a device – in this case, an iPad – so you can use unapproved apps and programs. 

Apple warns against jailbreaking, saying that it introduces security vulnerabilities, can negatively impact battery life, and make the device more unstable. 

But that wasn’t enough to put off YouTuber Zachary Staines, who snapped up an original iPad for cheap online and attempted to jailbreak it. 

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He bought the first-generation iPad for cheap and decided to jailbreak it

Zachary said that if it weren’t for jailbreaking, a bunch of his old Apple products would be ‘useless’. 

So, when he bought a 2010 iPad for just $60 from eBay, he decided to see if he could use the same process to give it a new lease of life. 

The vintage bit of tech turned up in good working order, and Zachary was able to find an iOS jailbreak kit online.

Running the kit, he was able to quickly jailbreak the iPad and download Cydia so he could make some cool tweaks. 

But although it looked like it was good to go, Zachary soon discovered that he couldn’t connect to the App Store. 

“What have I done?” he asked. 

“Have I completely cooked this?”

In an attempt to get it working again, he had to plug the iPad into his Mac and restore it to factory settings, and then re-jailbreak it. 

Zachary had to follow this up by tinkering with some settings and making some additional tweaks, but the iPad still refused to connect to the App Store.

The 15-year-old device hit some problems, but could he get past them?

It turned out that, unlike other iOS devices he had been able to jailbreak in the past, this one was running on the very old iOS 5.

This meant he needed to install some additional tweaks to get it working, and those tweaks had to be older versions to work. 

After a bit of trial and error, he finally got it working and was able to download Minecraft onto the 15-year-old iPad – much to his delight. 

“I’m actually really impressed with how well it’s running right now,” he said. 

“Almost two decades old and it still runs so well. I’m incredibly impressed.

“I could genuinely just play this for hours. This is so much fun.”

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