Very slow downloading of any applications from the App Store

Definitely Apple side issue.

Bet they don't distribute the apps from each continent servers but from a centralized one, so top isp speeds will NEVER be hit abroad.

Im never getting above 10% my ISP speed from the appstore... had to check from router's web, since this OS refuses giving you info. Everything else flies at max speed available.

TJF@DENVER wrote:

yup ... this is not a VPN or any other non-apple software/hardware/connectivity issue ... this is completely iApple ...

Then why aren’t there millions of complaints from the 1 BILLION iPhone users? There is a problem with your phone, your router, or your network connection. My app store downloads take a few seconds over my gigabit FIOS connection. And I get a dozen or more app updates a day among my 300 apps.

Never happened in my entire list of Galaxy devices.

600 MB/s downloading from any other device.... 400 kbps from Iphone 15 PM.

in fact it NEVER downloaded a thing from the appstore at full available network speed.

Im quite sure is an optimization issue as 99% of people do not care if an app downloads slowly, but I care and check from another app how fast things are going, and are going at said speeds. SLOW

Not necessarily true. Apple can easily throttle throughput on their end. I have gigabit speed through my ISP but also notice the abysmal speed of App Store downloads.

Hi.

For me everything is downloaded from App Store super slow on WI-FI, but immediately on LTE.

So it is definitely an Apple bug because the WI-FI connection works fine in all other cases.

Unless you are privy to Apple’s computing infrastructure and policies, I don’t see how you have the authority or expertise to make such a claim. Your experience doesn’t dictate every user’s experience any more than my experience does. There are many variables at play, as my 35 years in professional IT have taught me.

It’s unfortunate for others here who are experiencing this issue that instead of receiving helpful feedback they instead get trolled.

I am an IT professional. And well qualified to troubleshoot this. I'm experiencing this issue as well. Which is what lead me to read this. I'm seeing this at every location if try to download at. There's plenty of bandwidth available.

I have the same issue as rellaax. I do not have any VPN profiles installed. 3 days ago I could down load my updates and new apps very quick (310mbps) then now even with the same speed the apps take a lot longer to down load (227mb took 30 minutes…) I have the space on my phone and no issues watching YouTube / Netflix. It really does appear to be an issue with Apple App Store downloading.

ah ... success ...

same issue for me ... 2 Macs ... one was great on the AppStore/Updates, the other painfully slow ...

went into settings ... searched for DNS ... within the DNS tab, the SEARCH DOMAIN had my old router ... highlighted and deleted it ... it then defaulted into my current router ... saved ... rebooted ... AppStore/Apple Updates now work at regular speeds ...

HTH someone else ...

DiegoKS wrote:

Definitely Apple side issue.

Bet they don't distribute the apps from each continent servers but from a centralized one, so top isp speeds will NEVER be hit abroad.

WRONG. They distribute using a worldwide 3rd party network distribution provider (Akamai). And they have several distributed server sites for their own servers, including Ireland, Australia, Japan and China.

Ummm never had a problem with my VPN before. Everything ran perfectly. My problem now is after the 2 updates in May 2024! Every app loads at dialup speed, if they load at all! Basically unwatchable/useless ever since.

I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro Max iOS 17.5.1 & in the last day or two ALL of my downloads from the App Store are not just running VERY slowly, but they are displaying the download time in mins & seconds! This is even happening w apps I have previously downloaded but deleted & am attempting to redownload. Needless to say, this is VERY upsetting! 😡

zeruspocus wrote:

There are thousands if not millions of users with the same problem, just google it or look at it here. You keep repeating the same thing... how much does they pay you for these garbage comments?

Yes, and those thousands and millions (which I doubt) are all using either a “helper” app or VPN, or have very slow Wi-Fi or an obsolete router.

And it is still a tiny percentage of 1.5 BILLION.

Yes, and those thousands and millions (which I doubt) are all using either a “helper” app or VPN, or have very slow Wi-Fi or an obsolete router. And it is still a tiny percentage of 1.5 BILLION.

You "Doubt" and you base all your statements in just suppositions. You say you are a computer scientist for the past 50 years, well then honor your title and don't state BS without studying properly what is actually happening. You are blaming VPNs and/or bad router configurations or whatever pointed to the user without even knowing if they user has a VPN or a bad router and when most are stating that everything else works fine in terms of connection. I'm also a computer scientist but I'm not being paid by Apple. You have 87,000 replies on this community only, that is quite a lot and sounds like a full time job, so whatever you say has zero realistic and scientific value, you are just a troll.

I have the same problem. I try to download a 453mb app and it takes 5 HOURS. There isn’t any Problem with my internet and I have more than enough space but it TAKES SO LONG! EVEN FOR 75MB APPS. I SWEAR IT TOOK 1 HOUR TI DOWNLOAD THAT THING