My iPhone 13 Pro Max is stuck in restore progress

Ditto; top many apps to show, leaving some deprecated ones infinitely awaiting download. Sorted visible apps into folders, deleting retired ones, rebooted, sorted the next batch, rinse, repeat. Finally, after all retired apps were removed, I was able to upgrade to OS 15.2 😅

In my case it looked like my IPhone X ( the one I was transferí g from)I had a beta version and it could not upgrade to iOS 15 so I had to use my friends iPhone 11 to transfer my iCloud storage and setting as if it was my new phone, then from her phone I was able to do the same process of transferring my iCloud info and data into my new iPhone 13 and it worked . Later my friend restored her info into her iPhone 11 and we were both finally happy up and running. Hope it helps

What FINALLY worked was, I had 200GB of iCloud, I HAD to purchase 2TB of iCloud storage and the BAM, everything suddenly updated and worked just fine. Wish there was an iCloud option between 200GB and 2 TB!

Late to this thread but ran into the issue of "restore in progress 100MB needed" wipred my phone twice, took it into the Apple Store and turned out I just needed to sign into Media and Purchases and it went away. I could do a proper back up from there on my new iPhone 13 and did not lose any data!

For me it was a book that wasn’t downloading. Before figuring that out, I changed the Apple ID password, turned off wifi, turned on 2.4 network, turned off cellular data and restarted. None of my apps were in progress. I went to Books and one book was at 78% and another at 2%. I deleted the file at 2%. That did it. The restore message was automatically removed. And I was able to update iOS to 15.4 and back up to iCloud. I suspect that an app, or media purchase not downloaded correctly will prevent a full restore.

I’m new to the community but I have some experience in operating systems and Linux.

it sounds to me that you need to reset the whole process.

first reset iPhone pro max to factory ( you can do that using iTunes on a PC or MAC through the lightning connector USB )

then boot the phone and configure your internet connection and so on, then setup the restore process.

if it continues to fail, write a support ticket for Apple unless you know of a way to see the verbose logs during the restore yourself.

What fixed it for me in the end was restoring my new iPhone from a backup done on the Mac. I had tried resetting the iPhone and restoring from iCloud (initially I had done it over wi fi) but the problem persisted, from the Mac is what fixed it at last after months.

What do you mean? You do a backup of your old phone on your computer and restore the new one from that one. If you have material on your new phone that is not on your old one make sure to save it somewhere, as it doesn’t backup automatically if you are having this issue.

I am normally pretty tech savvy but this is driving me bonkers and making my head spin... Will the backup make me lose everything that I've saved in my iCloud over the last two months? In order to restore my phone to the final backup from my last phone, do I have to wipe this one first?

This is apples irresponsible ridiculous product managers not requiring restore use cases to be tested in QA in context of how about optimize app downloads and iCloud usage for all of your photo data? I ran out of space twice because the restore attempts to restore everything 100% and ignores him probably doesn’t even have the meta-data of unused apps or simple iCloud pointers for the content. After I ran out of space incessantly twice I started a race to delete gigantic apps and then the restore simply hung up I have 6.9 GB waiting and I did the app volume down volume hold lock button and I did the kill all apps and I did the click on waiting how about I do the where is Apple‘s responsibility in making sure that these functions actually work and what do they actually test time is it an empty phone?

billions of dollars and you can’t even manage use cases to restore your own devices with your own restricted apps and content —- what is the real fix ???? Update to iOS 57.5??? A disservice to every apple customer is what this is.

This thread helped me fix my issue but my problem wasn’t as complex. Maybe this help someone out there -

My iPhone 13 Pro Max was stuck in the restore process and was not letting me install the new iOS update.

I discovered my iPhone was not completing a current backup. So I canceled the backup then restarted the backup. All was fixed after that backup was complete. (Settings - Clicked my name at the top - iCloud - iCloud Backup)

I did not have the issue that the word “Never” was next to my iCloud back up status so my apologies I can’t help those with that.

I didn’t lose any photos or current info on my phone.

Good luck to those who still need a fix. I hope you get one soon.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS? I don't know why it's so hard for the Apple people to help this should be an easy yes or no question. Like, "yes you'll lose all of your files since your last phone when you restart it" or "No, you won't" smh

I am having the exact issue from upgrading my iPhone 11 to iPhone 13 pro max just stuck at 100mb

I am on 15.1.1 and am still stuck @ 100MB, noticed with cellular enabled restore is paused.

iPhone plugged in over night still @ 100MB. Worst part about this lots of network services unavailable while this is in this state. (ie pandora, music apps)