Q: iPhone 6 "Restoring from iCloud Backup" forever

I tried that 3 times, same issue. Don't waste your time. Stop using icloud and use itune backup.

If you can't setup iCloud correctly then don't use it. That will be the best for you.

Use iTunes instead.

I think many users are just trying to find a way to get Apple's attention that this is really important that gets fixed. It's really a shame, iCloud used to be very stable.

Apple does not officially peruse these forums -- these are user-to-user communities.  Apple has a web site for submitting bugs -- it is radar.apple.com -- and Apple *will* respond to those.  There are millions upon millions of people using Apple products, and the engineers need precise information, not anecdotal evidence.  When you file a bug report, you'll get software that will gather the information the engineers need so that they can help you.

So, how does that work when the service is iCloud itself. Should I just hand over my phone to Apple? Because I've done that before and no fix yet. I don't think this problem is specific to one user or one software. Look, I know you're trying to help so this is nothing personal to you, but if so many users are frustrated with Apple, maybe that's feedback to Apple. In my opinion, mistakes are normal. As long as Apple acknowledges it and brings a solution, then customers will be happy. If customers report it and no solution has been brought nor promised for months and months, customers will start getting impatient. There will be days when they found out that after they cancelled backup restoration that some data is gone. Maybe something simple as a game progress is gone, or something more important like photos and videos are suddenly missing. I have seen complaints from customers that say that their entire documents disappeared. I mean Apple's silence could be interpreted as negligence in this case.

People have reported I'm sure of that, but will Apple listen and solve it, will they open up their system to us so we can solve it ourselves, or will it just remain quiet?

Assuming that your phone is working the way you want it, you can just cancel the iCloud restore.

1. Open the Settings app
2. Tap on iCloud.
3. Tap on Backup.
4. Tap on Cancel Restore
5. Confirm

That should do it. At least, it did for me.

Ok I've had his issue for a day but managed to finally resolve it by following 4 steps:

1. Turn off Find my iPhone (not sure why but a few people mentioned it and it seemed to help)

2. Deleted apps that wouldn't download - re-downloaded them from the App Store. Note you will PROBABLY lose the saved data. Luckily my apps were Auto Trader, Amazon, Dropbox, OneDrive, Cineworld and Snapchat. No saved data worth keeping

3. Checked iBooks for books that were struggling to download or didn't download - repeated the same process as above.

4. Did a soft reset.

Restoring from iCloud Backup message has now disappeared.

Very annoying that the process is still so botched and it's 4 months after release!

those of you stopping the restore will probably be losing data. for example mine says the same message on the lock screen. but all my apps and messages look fine.

however other data is still downloading. i had to look through photos to realise it was still downloading these. I have 128gb iPhone 6 plus. it will take some time maybe days!!!.

my advice would be to wait a few days. only then consider cancelling the restore and use the other methods

SSame problem for me with restoring my iPad air 2 from the iCloud backup, it just takes forever, there's no progress bar to indicate how much mor time I will need to wait

if you leave your phone connected to your computer it will complete, I had the same problem,  iCloud restore took for ever , because one of the download (my voice memos) could not complete!! i think it needs to be connected to be charged too, any how, although you can restore most functions of the phone over the cloud eventually you need to leave it on connected to your computer for a while. good luck.

PS I hate going to the apple store it is very frustrating, great product, very bad culture! those geniuses are not.

Just go to setting iclouds, backup, and turn it off and than turn it back on and you will be all set. Thank you

Thanks a lot! I went through this forum, facing the same issue. After nearly an hour of reading and trying the given suggestions, yours worked for me. Thanks again!

I too had the "Restoring from iCloud Backup" message displayed after restoring phone due to downloaded text tones not working. As suggested above, I did a a Manual Back Up and Restore to This Computer immediately followed by a Restore Backup. Once procedure completed, the phone no longer displays this message on the Lock Screen. 

This is it!  I just started opening all of my apps, starting with the Apple ones that you can't delete.  One of them, Podcasts I think, started downloading something when I opened it.  After opening all of the Apple apps, I put the phone to sleep and woke it up again and that "Restoring from iCloud Backup" message near the bottom of the screen was finally gone.  It let me download the iOS update right away.

Thank you, vcoffman09!

Hello, I had the same problem. i'm trying to recover data from my iCloud backups. I would like to get my pictures/videos back to my hard drive.

I found an application called "iPhone Data Recovery". I was able to extract the files, but the files somehow can't open in my iPhone. Has anyone gotten to extract their files and able to transfer them successfully?

Regards