Apps taking forever to download after restore

I followed James Mol post but nothing happened. After 2 days called Apple Support. The problem for me was the restore was interrupted and stopped in the middle of the restore. This is what she told me to do and it worked. Do a force restart. For the iphone x, do this right after the other in this order 1. The only problem was I lost some apps. Option 1 is to reset and erase and do another restore from backup. Option 2 is to download the apps again.

I chose option 2. Dec 1, AM. Dec 14, PM in response to riverfreak In response to riverfreak. Dec 14, PM. That was after two days of spinning circles. Dec 19, AM. Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore More Less.

Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: Billfromcottonwood Billfromcottonwood. Question: Q: Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore I did a restore on my new iPhone X and some of the apps are locked up and won't start. More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too.

Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Nov 8, AM in response to Billfromcottonwood In response to Billfromcottonwood Same thing here except some of my apps have downloaded.

View answer in context. If I understand correctly, you are unable to finish installing apps on your new iPhone X after setting up and restoring from your iCloud backup. To help resolve this issue, please force close the App Store app and restart your device as iOS clears cached data and does other system optimizations when you turn your device off and on.

Then open the App Store app and test if these apps will reinstall on your iPhone. Called apple care - They advised I restore again. After 12 hour 54 apps ready under not on this iphone 84 app after 16 hours under all 84 apps after 26 hours.

Method 1. Once you do this you can selectively get back on track. Nov 10, AM in response to Billfromcottonwood In response to Billfromcottonwood Just got off the phone with AppleCare and now the apps are downloaded. For now it is working. Loading page content. Reply Helpful 19 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post.

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Reply Helpful 4 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Nov 25, PM in response to Billfromcottonwood In response to Billfromcottonwood Okay after hours and hours messing around with this, I tried to do a restore from a local backup of my old phone. Reply Helpful 2 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: djlatt djlatt. User profile for user: cayohana cayohana. Hope this helps. User profile for user: zkhcarroll zkhcarroll. Instantly the App became available.

It seems most of the Apps had been downloaded, but each one still said waiting. The ones that hadn't downloaded, were deleted by this method, but were easily retrieved afterwards, by re-downloading them from the cloud. Hope this helps. Jan 10, AM. We eventually went to Genius Bar. It was suggested to us that perhaps our back up was somehow corrupted, so we restored the new iPhone X as a new phone and went to the Apple Store and just downloaded the apps.

This worked well. Since all photos and contacts were shared, those were recovered too. Only lost some texts. I had the exact same problems as everyone is describing here, and I found the solution. The answer is:. Make sure the iOS version of your new phone is updated to the latest or ideally matching the iOS version of your old phone. This will restart your phone as a new out-of-the-box phone, and after a few steps it will ask you if you want to restore your phone from a backup.

Choose yes, and select your backup to restore from. Then you'll see that everything will work perfectly. The only disappointment is when I discovered certain apps that are no longer available on the App Store will no longer work. For those apps, you'll be given the option to either delete them or keep them but no use keeping an app that doesn't work. I have about apps including some that are no longer on the App Store. Jan 16, AM. Jan 16, AM in response to ThankGod! In response to ThankGod! Jan 17, PM.

Jan 21, AM. I can help anyone who need assistance with this prob. Jan 23, PM. Feb 10, PM. Hi James. Is there any how-to from your what you have learned from Apple or elsewhere? Similar issue here - when moving from 5S to 8, some apps got stuck in "waiting" state and some other in "loading" state, nothing helped to get it moving again :-? Mar 2, PM. Mar 6, AM. Mar 6, AM in response to hodalborz In response to hodalborz. Try connecting your iPhone to a computer. Then go on iTunes and Reset your phone.

Then try to restore backup again. Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: Billfromcottonwood Billfromcottonwood. Question: Q: Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore I did a restore on my new iPhone X and some of the apps are locked up and won't start.

More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Nov 8, AM in response to Billfromcottonwood In response to Billfromcottonwood Same thing here except some of my apps have downloaded.

View answer in context. If I understand correctly, you are unable to finish installing apps on your new iPhone X after setting up and restoring from your iCloud backup. To help resolve this issue, please force close the App Store app and restart your device as iOS clears cached data and does other system optimizations when you turn your device off and on.

Then open the App Store app and test if these apps will reinstall on your iPhone. Called apple care - They advised I restore again. After 12 hour 54 apps ready under not on this iphone 84 app after 16 hours under all 84 apps after 26 hours. Method 1. Once you do this you can selectively get back on track.

Nov 10, AM in response to Billfromcottonwood In response to Billfromcottonwood Just got off the phone with AppleCare and now the apps are downloaded. However, it is always reported that restoring from iCloud backup taking forever when iOS users try to restore their iPhone from its backup.

In this post, I will walk you through different reasons that cause iPhone restoring from backup to take forever and the ways to fix it. You may wonder how long should it take to restore from iCloud backup. Even with the strongest network connection, it might still take hours to complete. If it seems to go on forever, you need to think about if something went wrong. Most of the time, such a situation occurs because of the instability of the application in restoring the content from the backup file.

Although the reasons are unknown, many applications tend to refuse to set up on the new iPhone. If the restoration process is taking forever, the process got stuck due to a glitch and will not continue no matter how long you wait. A better way is to stop the process manually.

As the restoration is stuck, you will have to revert the process manually. Some data is unnecessary to backup on your phone. To speed up iCloud backup, you should try to avoid backup useless data. You can choose to delete old iCloud backups if you hardly use them.