Why is all my apps in "waiting" mode

It was like that for me too. I did everything until I understood nothing else but a complete restore of the device would do it. Now i have restored everything and it is now working just fine.

Tried all of your suggestions except the total wipe...it's been 3 days of waiting and I can't use any of the "waiting" apps.....grrrrrr! Come on Apple!!!!

I've had the same problem upgrading from 4s->5. The reset and restore from iCloud is what worked for me except the key was to NOT PLUG THE PHONE INTO MY COMPUTER.

If I had the phone plugged into the computer anytime during the restore and before all the apps were downloaded it would automatically start syncing the phone and trying to install apps from the computer backup and get hung up at the end of the sync. After this none of the apps would download and would show the "waitin..." I'm guessing this is because the apps on my computer are out of date or something and don't give the latest version like the restore from iCloud does.

So, try the restore from iCloud and do not plug into your computer until all apps have been downloaded.

Similar problem after replacing a defective iPhone 5. Once restored via iCloud, all apps were in a waiting status. I had to go to the App Store and download the apps again from the cloud. All is well now.

Thank you so much David Ahn, for your super guidance in solving the problem of Apps that were stuck in 'waiting'

I did as you suggested and was delghted with the result. I had about 30+ that were waiting after syncing my iPad Air with the Mac computer and thought I had done something wrong. What a great help! Mo

You don't have to reset anything!!! Just go to the App Store and click update on the apps that say waiting, the waiting sign will go away as soon as you click on update!

SOLUTION: Go to Itunes (Plug in your phone)> Go to Apps (Install a couple old apps) and click Apply. Should reset the board and install and sync your apps. This worked for me, I hope it help someone else!

Just restart your Iphone mate. Same thing happened to me, and I restarted my phone and the minute I unlocked my phone, its starting to download all the apps.

hope this helps

Cheers

Alvin

Solution: Launch App Store - Updates tab, scroll down and re-download all apps from cloud

None of the App Store logoout / reset worked for me

This worked on

iPhone 6 > iPhone 6 S Plus upgrade

So I didn't want to do this whole restore whatever deal

So I decided to go the easiest route for trouble shooting and it worked 🙂

I was doing a restore from ITunes backup on a new Iphone 6s and was getting all my apps WAITING

I decided to go to app world and do updates on the apps they suggested needed it

First it was 6 apps

Went through those

and then got 3 more then 2 etc

After it updated all of them that needed updating

The rest did quickly 🙂

It took a few hours but was so much easier then all the restore, wipe, back up crap

Just took patience but was very easy to see progress thru app world as it updated everything

A few I had to update more than once

Hope this helps 🙂

DJ BritStar xoxooxo

PS The whole restart phone thing I tried but didn't work I had to update all apps

Thank you for the simple suggestion that fixed my problem 🙂

Finally I found it, I was facing the worst case of App stucking in waiting mode and I try many ways to solve this (deleting, deleting from iTunes, restarting , DFU mode) and nothing work.

One day, yes one day I decided to macke a backup for my iPhone and I start normally with (Transfer Purchases App from "iPhone") then i found the iTunes start only with the stucked apps, one by one download and delete.

Finally now I have an working, opening, normal Youtube App.

This did not work for me!!! Hours of restore and back up later and still the problem persists!!! Grrr

Did you ever figure it out? Same problem here

Cjpbuild wrote:

Did you ever figure it out?

Yes, as stated numerous times in this thread.