Gathering printer information keeps coming up when I want to print on my phone but no the iPad.

How do I clear the ‘gathering printer information’ on my phone when I want to print?


I have switched off printer, phone, reset wifi, router, upgraded to 16.5 and cleared cookies but still happens.


When I switch on the phone it hasn’t the message but says ‘No printer selected’ and when I select the Brother printer the ‘gathering printer information’ comes up again and won’t swop to the other Hp printer.



iPhone 8

Posted on May 22, 2023 10:23 AM

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Posted on Dec 4, 2023 6:59 PM

I had this same issue when our iPhone updated to IOS 17... Apple help tried all the usual things that did not work. Finally, they asked if I had updated my printers firmware. I updated the firmware and sure enough it was working again. Before the update to the firmware all of our updated iPhones would not select the printer, however, our old iPhone with IOS 14.. could print fine. So try updating your printers firmware.

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Dec 19, 2023 2:52 PM in response to Melomine

I updated to 17.2 Sunday and my print function no longer works. I do not have a vpn installed on any of my devices. The hp printer shows on my list of available printers but when selected it starts gathering printer information but never finishes and goes back to no printer found. Had no issues prior to this update. Judging by this forum this is apparently a common issue so hope a patch is forthcoming. Apple Support??? What say you?

Mar 24, 2024 1:47 PM in response to Melomine

my wife has the same issue and symptoms using iOS 17.4.1 with or without VPN enabled. She has an iPhone 13 and it’s suddenly impacted about 4 weeks ago. Gathering supplies information D infinitum. My iPhone 8 and iPad are both unaffected. Can anyone advise if there is a routine that works. I e spent hours switching on/off reinstalling printer pairings to no avail

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