My ipad is stuck updating apps.

I had a couple apps stuck today and it was just a matter of deleting those apps and reinstalling them. Not a big deal at all. I haven't read all of this thread, but I never saw this solution mentioned and it's probably way easier than the others I've seen here.

And that is why you should read the thread before posting - your "solution" is irrelevant to this problem.

Since this solution worked for me and it was simpler than the other methods I saw, there was no reason for me to continue reading all 4 pages. I also wanted to offer this simplified method that can work for others that find this thread in the future.

Not all solutions work for all folks, but this one may help others. I guess I missed the rule where someone has to study and read every part of a thread before they're allowed to post. Thank you mister Dick!

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I had success by doing the following:

Any app that is stuck updating - click on it on the desktop - it will either immediately update itself OR report that it failed to update and tell you to try again later. Either way it is "unstuck" and can be updated properly from the App Store. This solution may have been reported before but I can confirm it worked for me. You mileage may vary. Good luck.

Thanks, this solved my problem. In addition to the blocked App Store updates I also had hanging video downloads in the purple iTunes app. Deleting all of them individually by swiping solved the blocked App Store updates.

This has been driving me mad too! Had app totally stuck 'installing'. Thought I had tried everything but did it all again as I scrolled through posts here........what finally worked for me was the suggestion to do hard reset in airplane mode! Thank you ! Hope this helps someone else too as I couldn't so anything via iTunes or connecting to desktop etc etc.

This worked for me:

Open purple iTunes App. Tap on Downloads (you might notice the red bubble shows multiple downloads waiting).

You should see a bunch of "pending" downloads (songs, podcasts, videos). One (or more) of them might be stuck, saying "processing."

Tap it. That one will stop processing and the others will start downloading like magic. And your stuck apps will update too.

It's like unclogging a drain. And just as satisfying.

We all may be dealing with different device models, OS versions, update histories, etc., so I'm not offering this up as a "solution"... I just read most of the last 4 pages, but I might even be repeating someone else's approach... I'm just going to write in words that I'd understand, as an a infrequent Apple user.

I have an iPad 2 and recently let it install iOS 6. I don't remember the last time I synced. I may have had over 20 pending updates when I did the iOS 6 update, so the no-upgrades thing was probably an issue for me before the update.

Google Earth was the first of my 20+ stuck app updates. I deleted the app, thinking that this heavy app might be clogging the drain. Didn't help the other stuck apps.

I may have been misinterpreting what others had written here, because I thought they were talking about clicking the next stuck app in the APP STORE (though I think some also mentioned iTunes). I clicked on one of the stuck apps... on the iPad... not in the App Store, but the actual instance of it outside of the App Store out on the "desktop" or whatever you call it on the iPad. I think it might be preferable to start with the first one that's left in the Updates list. That app's icon switches to Waiting mode, then eventually gives me the "[app name] cannot be downloaded. Please try again later." message. I click Done. I then go into the App Store. I find that app. I click the app icon on the left hand side of the list here instead of clicking the Update button to its right. Once the app's description popup is open, I try clicking the Update button on THAT screen. Didn't seem to work 100% of the time, for every app, but when it fails, I just went on to try this procedure for one of the other other stuck apps. You may even want to click on all of the stuck apps out on the "desktop"/whatever all in a row, all along clicking Done for each to get them unstuck before going into the App Store to find them and continue on.

Again, this may work for no one else, as we all have different histories, but so far I seem to be getting somewhere. Frustrating stuff!

Another note:

As I'm doing these, some of the stuck-update apps no longer show the empty update progress bar on their icon, both in the App Store Updates list and out on the "desktop". Even if this is the case, they might still be stuck. Click on their instance out on the desktop. It may take more than one try with this, but these ones that are not yet updated but still showing in the Updates list may actually require that they first be opened (we're opening the old, unupdated version at this point), then closed, before you go back to the App Store and try again to update them. You need to get and acknowledge the "... cannot be downloaded..." message for each stuck app before trying again to update it. There appear to be several points of failure in this Update process.

...aaaaaaaand sorry... my bad... Some of these stuck apps NEVER gave me the "cannot be downloaded" message... but I did have to go to the instance of them and open and close the app before trying to update them again in the App Store.

1st...go to settings, Then tap the blue button @ the right side and find DNS..and leave it blank..and go again into the appstore and thats it!

hi, I had the same problem, but fixed it. try the following:

setting >> iTunes & app stores >> switch off automatic downloads apps

hope it helps!

Eventually after reading loads here.......I put iPad to airplane mode, powered off and on again and took airplane mode off....stuck app was free!! I don't have a mac, but didn't need option to sync from there...

The problem in my case was that the freakin' Podcasts app by Apple seems to block any other app download/update until it has downloaded all the podcasts in its queue. It was a 1gb podcast that was taking ages to download, stopping all my other apps from updating.

Once the podcast download finished, the other apps started updating again.

Briliant, switching to airplane mode on and off again solved my "stalled" apps store! Thanks