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In settings on my iPad 5 with iPadOS 15, I see a notification that a software update is available. Since I don't want to update to 16 now, I just ignore it.
Huh?! How did you get rid of it?
Anyway, great for you that you were able to make it go away!
Blocked Apple iOS/iPadOS update server through my router for just the mac address of the iPad 5th generation.
What's the advantage of going to this effort? I'm hardly ever in Settings, and when so it doesn't bother me. For me it's actually good to know if there's an update available anyway.
So it never accidentally gets updated to iOS 16 sense it is so old and slow of a tablet/hardware. iOS 16 would run horrible on it. In my opinion. iOS 15 it already very slow I can't imagine what iOS 16 would be like.
I'd say if Automatic Updates is off, it shouldn't happen. But I hear your concern.
I have 16 on mine and for me the iPad runs fine. Just a tiny wait and it's not fiber fast lol. Then again, I basically use it for books and etc...
my mom accidentally updated her 5th gen to iOS 16 and it still runs fine for her uses, hasn't complained at all.
This won‘t clear the settings badge, unfortunately. My iPad Air 5 is on iPadOS 15.6 and has update downloads disabled and the badge is still there. To go even further, my 9.7-inch iPad Pro is on iOS 12 (which means it can’t even update via OTA to iPadOS 16: when I go to the Software Update page it says “your iOS version is too old to update wirelessly. Please connect it to iTunes on a computer”) and it still shows the badge.
I can confirm that iOS 16 is absolutely horrible with the 5th Gen iPad. Safari constantly reloads tabs and everything feels extra laggy versus iOS 15.7.x. Definitely the last intended iPadOS release we'll be getting, as iPadOS 16 leaves the 5th Gen in its ideal end-of-life state from Apple's perspective. 
If you're trying to dodge iOS 16 you're doing the right thing.
If you're trying to dodge iOS 16 you're doing the right thing. 
Could you share the server information to you blocked to achieve this?
I remember having that active on our home router a few years ago to avoid iOS 12 notifications.
One way I used to do it was with an OpenDNS account.
I'd set it up as a custom home network on OpenDNS, and would run a small OpenDNS utility on an always-on Mac that notified OpenDNS of any changes to my IP address to maintain the network rules.
I'd setup custom rules for my home network in OpenDNS to block the hostnames Apple uses to check for updates and deliver them.
And then any devices I wanted to block from iOS updates would use OpenDNS DNS servers. As long as they were connected to my local network, it worked beautifully and I never saw that horrible red update badge.
Sounds super-complicated, but it's actually quite straightforward once I got it working.
It may sound strange but you have to delete the already downloaded update file to remove the badge. You'd have to download the update to do this.
Well, good to hear opinions and experiences from both sides. 3 iPad 5's here. 2 on 14.8.1 and 1 on 15.4. All running well. On the fence if update to 16.
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Interesting. It wasn't like that on iOS 12. I've never downloaded it on iPadOS 15, as it's been disabled since day 1. Is it a new change?
I don't recall when this change was made, a few years back I'd say. I remember it used to be impossible to remove for the longest time. I just tested it today on iOS 15 and it worked, what I'm not sure about is exactly how long the badge will stay gone after doing this method.
Yes does vary based on use case.
Any Apple user satisfied with iPad 5th gen on iPadOS 16 though could quite comfortably live with a cheaper laggy crashtastic Samsung tablet experience in future too.
It’s a shame iPadOS 16 and iOS 15 have severely degraded my favourite processor ever (Which is the processor my two favourite devices ever have: the iPhone 6s and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, the latter has the improved A9X version). The iPhone 6s’ battery life has rendered the 6s unusable as a main phone, and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro not only has had its battery life obliterated (reports hover around the 5 to 6-hour mark at most), but performance of the iPad 6th gen on iPadOS 16 has also been severely criticised, and even though the A9X is slightly better, it’s not enough to offset iPadOS 16’s requirements, which means that it’s probably not amazing either (however, I haven’t read many reports either way, but it shouldn’t be a whole lot better than the iPad 6th gen).
Yeah, in conclusion, Apple has really degraded the experience. A shame.
Frankly, 2GB RAM iPads haven't been the same since iPadOS 13. I really regret not keeping my iPad Pro 9.7 on iOS 12.