Q: iPhone 6 "Restoring from iCloud Backup" forever

Seems it's still an issue!  I backed up to iCloud and restored from that backup.  Two days later several apps appear to be halfway through the loading process and haven't moved at all.  What gives??  I'm updating iOS to 8.4.1.  Not that I think it will help....

This issue has been around for a looong time.

This page might give a hint: If you need help restoring from an iCloud backup - Apple Support

• Restoring from a backup might take a while because of the size of the backup or the speed of the Wi-Fi network. For example, iCloud can take approximately 1 to 4 hours per gigabyte during a restore process.

So a 64Gb iPhone restore may take as long as something between 64 and 276 hours. This means up to 11 days, connected all the time on Wifi.

The point is: try to always keep a reasonably recent backup on iTunes, locally. To restore from iCloud does work but may take - easily - more than a week.

My suggestion is the same present on previous posts on this thread:

• Before restoring, turn Find My iPhone OFF
• Be sure to restore from a local backup on iTunes

I did the mistake of restoring from iCloud but after two days I cancelled it and did a new restore from iTunes, with a local backup. I didn't have most of the apps (which has been automatically downloaded and installed on the phone) and the entire wipe/ restore took about 6 hours to complete.

Before someone complains, surely Apple should fix this and provide better backup tools. Anyway, this is a workaround that usually works.

PS: I did this to format an iPhone 5 (was using iOS 8.4.1) and then did a iOS 9 clean install.

Spot on worked for me, Cheers!

Thank you for your awesomeness.

HI Yefchak,

i just upgraded from iPhone 5s to 6s and it's been saying the same thing on my phone for the last 2 days and chewing up my battery. I did the same thing you did, all wifi and all iCloud. All my apps are there tho so I don't know why it's doing it but I went to Settings>iCloud > backup>Stop iPhone restoring. did that, rebooted and the message is no longer there. It did say apps wouldn't be completed but they already looked that way to me and I've been using them with no issues so try that. then it your phone do its automatic backup whenever it does it and see if anything changes.

The 'stop restoring' worked for me as well.

Thank you!  My icloud back up on my 6s kept saying restoring but I couldn't find anything not restored.  This worked!

I had the same problem after upgrading to iOS 9!  The good news is that they added a feature!

Go to "Settings > iCloud > Backup" and click "Stop backup" -- note that this is more for people who are sure the data that they need has been restored to the phone already.  After 3 days of restoring and all apps and data being present, I was sure I had everything.

Once you click "Stop Backup" you should be able to create a new backup from that point on.  You just run the risk of losing some of your data.

Thank you so much (Y) This helps.

I recently lost an iPhone 5 with iOS9.02 and needed to restor to a new iPhone 6.   My laptop direct backup was about a month old and I wanted to retain recent data so restored from iCloud.  It took forever!  After I noticed WhatsApp had been restored I noticed photos and music were downloading slowly. Other apps not appearig to download.  I hooked up to iTunes, still restroing from iCloud and the process continued but now ant increase speed!   It didn't take too long for all Apps, data, photos and music to be restored.   Hope that may help someone

TThank you for his. My phone faulty had it replaced in apple shop 3 hours later still restoring. Just checked I had all and stopped restoring

thanks for your advice

Thank you! This worked for me!

Thank you for the calculations, I was about to stop reading and do them myself when I read this...thank goodness I have good WiFi. In a couple of days I'll also have a phone again. And I have learned that I should always back up in iTunes.

here is my solution.

first close find my iphone.

and then settings>icloud>storage and back up>stop restoring iphone.

and then install 9.1 come back to icloud section and make manual back up.

Guys, how 'bout a rabbitts foot?  Maybe a Shaman? 

This IS ridiculous!  Does Apple Corporate Ever respond.  Do u think they understand that all these issues and all the indicated lack of clarity are their, self created, problem.

makes u want to Never Upgrade!

or finally (even with all attendant difficulty) switch brands.

inexcusable to get nothing concrete back from Apple!