Very slow downloading of any applications from the App Store

There are thousands if not millions of users with the same problem. Just google it.

Thanks, enabling "Private Relay" made all my stalled App Store downloads start working again!!

Do you use VPN? If so, delete the VPN profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN. Don't just turn it off; delete the profile. VPN cuts communications speeds to 1/4 of the available bandwidth, or, depending on the provider, even more.

I have the same problem on my iPAD Air 5th, 17.4.1. On Thursday, I turned on Developer mode as Apple help article says, to input sandbox data, it's all worked fine.

And on the Friday, May 10th tadaaa: I have no option to download any app from Appstore/Testflight, the download is eternally on start.

I did everything besides flushing device to the factory condition.

When I turn on any VPN the download is happening as usual. Seems this is country+provider issue no one going to fix.

I found similar issues reported since 2021, so draw your own conclusions.

Chat support literally said I have to call at my own expense to other country and speak in Spanish, because they can't schedule call back for me to resolve the issue. I can buy device, but I can't have a support here.

All of my work with Testflight builds is stuck for 2 days.

SELFUPDATE 20 mins later: HAH! I realized 17.5 is standing ready for install and all fixed magically after update! This stucked OS installation prevented all Appstore/Testflight downloads. Whoa.

I ended up here because I was having the same issue on my new iPad 10th gen. I was trying to download DaVinci Resolve which is 3.3 gb. My estimated download time was over 2 hours.

I seen replies saying to remove any VPNs however, I did not have any installed on this new device.

What was the fix for me was enabling Private Relay which is a feature of iCloud+ (Tap on your name in the Settings app, then press iCloud). After enabling, I stopped and restarted the app download. What was a 2 hour download became a 2 minute download.

Hope this helps!

nuna176 wrote:

App Store taking more than 24hours to download app what’s wrong with it?

There is nothing wrong with the App Store. If there was there would be millions of complaints from the 1 BILLION iPhone users. There is a problem with your phone.

As a start: Do you use VPN? If so, delete the VPN profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN. Don't just turn it off; delete the profile.

There is nothing wrong with the App Store. If there was there would be millions of complaints from the 1 BILLION iPhone users. There is a problem with your phone.

As a start: Do you use VPN? If so, delete the VPN profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN. Don't just turn it off; delete the profile.

AndriiKa wrote:

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.

Really? No, it is definitely a problem with your router or some garbage you have installed on your phone, such as VPN, an antivirus, or some app that claims to speed up your phone. If it was definitely an Apple bug you would see thousands or millions of complaints about it.

So first, delete any junk apps that I have described from your phone and restart it (for VPN, delete the profile, don’t just turn it off.

Next, go to a friend’s, Starbucks or equivalent and see if you have the same problem on a different Wi-Fi network.

Same here,

Since the End of July 2024, the APP STORE Downloads, or Updates are superslow on Wifi, but pretty normal on LTE (Cellular).

This situation is ONLY VALID on downloads or updates from "App Store thru Wifi." It is very important to understand this.

All the other stuff on the internet works just fine both on Wifi, or Cellular (4G/LTE)

For the past few days, App Store doesn't like to work with WIFI Connection.. It Still Loves the Cellular, though :)

Very weird issue...

Updating to iOS 17.6.1 did not resolve this issue.

JohnnyPalmBeach wrote:

Same here,

Since the End of July 2024, the APP STORE Downloads, or Updates are superslow on Wifi, but pretty normal on LTE (Cellular).

This situation is ONLY VALID on downloads or updates from "App Store thru Wifi." It is very important to understand this.

All the other stuff on the internet works just fine both on Wifi, or Cellular (4G/LTE)

For the past few days, App Store doesn't like to work with WIFI Connection.. It Still Loves the Cellular, though :)

Very weird issue...

Updating to iOS 17.6.1 did not resolve this issue.

it is definitely a problem with your router or some garbage you have installed on your phone, such as VPN, an antivirus, or some app that claims to speed up your phone. If it was definitely an Apple bug you would see thousands or millions of complaints about it.

So first, delete any junk apps that I have described from your phone and restart it (for VPN, delete the profile, don’t just turn it off.)

Next, go to a friend’s, Starbucks or equivalent and see if you have the same problem on a different Wi-Fi network.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

AndriiKa wrote:

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.

Really? No, it is definitely a problem with your router or some garbage you have installed on your phone, such as VPN, an antivirus, or some app that claims to speed up your phone. If it was definitely an Apple bug you would see thousands or millions of complaints about it.

So first, delete any junk apps that I have described from your phone and restart it (for VPN, delete the profile, don’t just turn it off.

Next, go to a friend’s, Starbucks or equivalent and see if you have the same problem on a different Wi-Fi network.

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?

zeruspocus wrote:

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’m not paid by Apple either. I’m a user like you. And from answering hundreds of posts about this symptom (and it is a SYMPTOM which can have many possible causes - something that you as a computer scientist can understand) it has almost always been the things I have mentioned; a router that needs restarting, a VPN profile that is corrupted, just using VPN (which, as a computer scientist you must know cuts bandwidth to 25% or less of available bandwidth) or a “helpful” app like a memory manager, antivirus or cleanup app (all of which are useless except as revenue enhancement tools for their developers).

Are you using VPN? And have you run a speed test from your phone?

This helped. Thanks Lawrence!

Do you use VPN? If so, delete the VPN profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN. Don't just turn it off; delete the profile. If that fixes it, you can try reinstalling VPN.