Unable to download item please try again later

You tried Imazing? info two posts back - solved the problem

Page 14 of the thread has the answer the name of the user who posted it is Macuserjeff.

they posted the answer I tried it the other day and it’s worked.

Use iMazing as described. Worked for me.

That nonsense about airplane mode is utter nonsense. It's also referring to a Home button on an iPhone XR, which has no home button. Baffling.

Just chiming in that I’ve had this same annoying issue with my iPhone XR for almost two months. A Google search led me to this discussion. I’ve tried viewing download files and disabling automatic downloads, but no luck. After reading this thread, I’m thinking my next step is make sure I’ve backed up everything & take it to the Genius Bar. Will post here after with anything helpful.

Have had this same issue for months on an 11 Pro Max. I have restarted fresh and from an icloud backup with no luck. I've tried everything in this thread too. Deleting/clearing hasn't helped. Relogging into icloud hasn't helped. Happens a lot in my most frequent apps, especially around photos. Really wish Apple would catch and patch this. Software developer and ex QA, and I've tried a lot to get this to go away

Hello ~ I wonder now by seeing all you have gone through …and you have really gone through it…if there is a possibility that it may be something that could be connected to the email address associated with your Apple ID? Just a thought. If you do find a solution and I do so hope that you do …could you post back with your solution? Good luck :)

~Katana-San~

i just started having this issue about a week ago. It’s annoying and it looks like there’s not a solution. I’m running iOS 14.8 on my XR and 10.2-inch iPAD. Both with 128GBs of storage. Maybe I need to upgrade to iOS 15? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am yet another person with this issue.

I have also tried everything and have a phone/email thread going with Apple Support and so far everything they have tried has had no effect.

I notice it will occur predictably every time I reboot the phone.

iPhone 11 Pro Max IOS 15.0.2

I'm at 290.5 GB/2 TB and constantly get it on my 11 Pro Max (posted earlier that I've had it for months and have cleared/refreshed, etc. Deleted and reinstalled all apps. Literally everything). Did get a Cloud+ notification checking out my iCloud account on my phone. Maybe it's a part of that rollout?

Sorry, I missed your post, Dunkaroos. Such an odd and frustrating experience. Now I'm wondering if it had something to do with my photos? Who knows. The 'unable to download item please try again later' message is so vague. Tells one nothing. Such a pain.

I had a long call with Apple Support yesterday. They took some diagnostics off of my phone to see if they can find the source and are supposed to get back to me next week. I told them of this forum thread and the rep Ryan (who seemed genuinely helpful and interested in getting this problem fixed) noted the forum link and is going to add it to the file he forwards on to engineers so they can see this isn’t an isolated issue.

I had a first call with them and they took some diagnostics. I had a follow up call Thursday to gather more specific diagnostics at the engineers request. They are supposed to follow up with me this week when they’ve looked that data over.

Had same issue for so long can't remember when it started. No help here in communities. No help from customer service. They didn't know anything about it. Default solution: factory reset. No thanks. It's an error message for god's sake! I just keep pressing 'done' hoping that one day it will be.

I'd like to know the process of how you reset your phone if you recall. I tried wiping my phone clean as if it were a brand new phone. I chose to manually set it up...not using iCloud via my phone's WiFi, or by connecting to my PC. I then added my apps back from the App Store. Now all of my apps need to be organized the way I like and I have to sign into everything again. A laborious process as you mentioned. It was looking good for about 3 hours today and then the dreaded message appeared. I almost cried in my beer. Over the past couple of days, I have spoken with Apple Support 2x via chat and then with a rep on the phone after the chat got me nowhere. I think I need to hit the Apple Store. I'm at the end of my rope. I hope they do what someone mentioned in this forum...send us a replacement phone.

Thanks, BmWood!  You rock! Your process sounds like what I did too.  Thanks so much for detailing it out.  It's greatly appreciated.  As of today, I have not seen the dreaded message.  Maybe my phone just needed to sync back up with iCloud. I did notice my Notes coming in very slowly yesterday. A few good things came out of this process, one as you mentioned, my phone seems faster. Two, I didn't download all of the apps I had before as I never used some. It sure was a time suck though. I'll post again if I see the message pop-up.

Thanks again!