With the recent deprecation and now removal of the old States UI, it looks like my old iPad is useless when it comes to HA. It was a matter of time as there’s a dozen other apps I can’t update because the iOS version is so old. iOS 9.3.6 is the highest version iOS it can support. This means I have to use the old HA iOS app. I thought the iPad supported Lovelace because I could still view about 95% of my front end except for the few Lovelace cards I had (Alarm Card, Dark Sky Card, and a couple other built in). I’m guessing it was viewing a hybrid States UI but couldn’t render the specific Lovelace parts. I never clicked the “use States UI for this device” which is under the developer tools. As soon as I updated HA to 0.107, my front end in the old app disappeared. I can still send notifications, etc, just can’t view any entities.
So anyway, I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas what I could do or if it truly is the end of the road for my iPad. I’d like to keep using the iPad for HA as a whole home remote. I’m too entrenched in the Apple-verse so an Android or other type tablet isn’t an ideal solution. I may just go buy a more recent model iPad.
You can install Firefox and Opera Mini from the App Store (at least those are the two I had installed and could try), but I just get the initializing screen and can’t even get to the login screen. I believe this is due to the level of javascript supported by the OS, not by the browser.
I don’t understand why you iPad 3 is stuck on that version? My iPad 3 mini is on 12.0.4.6 and working fine with Lovelace. Unless there is a difference between iPad and iPad Mini as far as iOS version goes? I will admit that the iPad Mini 3 is starting to get noticeably more sluggish compared to iPad Mini 4 though?
the iPad 3 and iPad mini 3 are different. the iPad 3 was released in March 2012 and can only update as far as iOS 9.3.6. the iPad mini 3 was released in October 2014 and has newer hardware and can support up to iOS 12.4.6.
Im just writing to say how happy I am to have revived my Ipad 3 2012 so I could utilize it for a HA Dashboard. I will share a step by step in the long post linked above by squirtbrnr, where I learned that this is still possible. Ipad 3s are such a great hardware machine that it would be a big waste throwing it away or selling back to Apple for 1 USD. Now you can utilize the for simple HA Dashboards. Check out my post on the above link.