App in limbo between deleted and installed (icon with white circles and lines)
Hey, hope someone can help me, I'm pulling what's left of my hair out.
I deleted an app from my phone last week, planning to reinstall it to fix a bug. I did a forced restart of my phone in between to clear the cache. When my phone rebooted the app returned to my home screen to haunt me, but as a ghost icon with circles and lines. Clicking it does nothing, and deleting and doing another hard reset just gives the same result ad nauseum. I'm on iOS 15.5.
In the App Store, the phone shows as downloaded with the 'Open' button, but tapping that also does nothing.
Weirdly, the app doesn't show up in iPhone Storage, but it does show in my list of apps at the bottom of the main Settings page, albeit with only a couple of settings (Siri & Search, Notifications, Background refresh) rather than the full list that this app normally has.
I've deleted, force restarted and tried again about 30 times now and it's killing me. It's my banking app, so I need to get back in! I'm loath to do a factory reset for one app as it's a pain in the *** having to set the whole phone up again and restore all my preferences, etc. I can download and delete other apps just fine, it's just this one, and I reckon the problem started because I force restarted after deleting, rather than just delete and reinstall.
Has anyone experienced similar and found a way to fix this madness? I'm hoping the next app update (this app has regular weekly updates) might sort it if the App Store allows me to update, as it'd effectively be a reinstallation of the app?