All apps stuck loading on iPhone 13 after transfer

Hi Mzzyp,

We'd like to help you find the best resolution path for your apps stuck downloading after the transfer. We would recommend starting with the troubleshooting steps found here: If you can’t download or update apps on your iPhone or iPad. In addition to these steps, make sure you are connected to a strong Wi-Fi network and if you have any VPN connections, you may need to disable this temporarily. If you are connected to a Wi-Fi network, we also recommend to check Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points. Let us know if this doesn't help.

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Next tip, on my wife's iphone 13, I found holding down my finger on the app an extra second, opened a list that has "Prioritize Download" allowed her apps to download. Not sure why, but this worked for her phone. As mentioned above, for my phone, I found the apps listed in itunes under an old email, and I had to find that itunes password. The email address has been discontinued, but I had the itunes password recorded and it worked. Maybe someone else can explain what all of this means.

I just got an iPhone 13 Pro Max & had same problem. The data transfer from my old phone to new worked perfectly but transfer of all the APPs was taking forever. The way I fixed it was to turn off my phone for 5 mins then turn it back on. It restarted the APP transfers very quickly & they loaded within 5 mins. No deleting & reinstalling of APPs was necessary.

The new iPhone put me over the number of iCloud devices(?). So I remove an old desktop Mac in Settings/ Manage Devices. Restated the new phone, and apps began loading.

I had the same issue with my iphone 13 mini. I tried everything I read online; pause and restart, prioritize download, sign out and sign back in, hard restart - nothing worked. Then, I realized that a TV series in AppleTV was downloading in the background of it all. Once I stopped that, the apps seemed to download just fine.

I had the same issue, so I went onto my Apple ID info in settings and noticed that my old iPhone was still connected to my Apple ID. Once I removed the old device I restarted my phone and then everything downloaded.

The same thing happened when transferring from X to 13 pro max.

I discovered that during the transfer my primary payment was an old expired card, I updated the card details and all the apps started loading.

I can confirm this worked. I tried everything under the sun including power cycling the phone, logging in and out of itunes, yadda yadda. Nothing worked for me (on my iphone 13 pro) until i tried the "Prioritize Download" button on just one app: this caused all the apps to start downloading in short order.

Tech support had me delete all Norton Antivirus and VPN and the apps loaded quickly. THolding each app and manually prioritiing the download works, but takes a long time if you have a lot of apps. Once this was done apple watch pairing also worked.

I signed out and back in to the Apple App store and then everything worked fine; picked one app and hit the iCloud link. Took a while to update (20 min)

My wife’s new 13 Pro was stuck “Loading” for over an hour.

I hard-pressed 1 of the apps and clicked “Prioritize Download.” All started working again and in the next 10-15 minutes all were done!

I have the new iPhone 13 Pro, did all the fixes I read on the internet. Nothing would work. I then deleted Amazon Music and the apps all updated. I then put Amazon Music back on. I was only going from a 12 Pro to the 13 Pro and all my apps were current on the old 12.

Prioritize Download on any one app has helped me get unstuck. Thanks for the tip!

The Prioritize Download, by holding down one app is the only thing that worked for me!

FIXED:

Log out of App Store, log back in, done. A few seconds later, all my apps were installed over Wi-Fi.