Apps won't download on my iOS devices.

Steve is rolling in his grave, right now.

Got reality distortion?

Agree that that the issues "Should not be related". However systems security enhancements are frequently the nemisis of systems access. But then I remind myself that Apple never do anything wrong 😉

Wahoo! I'm finally able to connect!

Yes, it seems to be working again for me as well. I'm guessing what has been midday Saturday in Australia was the middle of Friday night in California so good work Apple engineers 🙂

Seems to be a lot of folk with the problem tonight. I was forced to input security questions 2 days back. Tonight, I've not had luck with my iphone, ipad, or computer. I can't update applications, can't download purchased music. I've changed credit cards, logged in and out of the store, rebooted soft, rebooted hard, checked the DNS server of the router, and tried using 3G alone. Nothing lets the applications download. The waiting bar just sits there for minutes until the machine times off. Shutting down and starting up causes it to say "Error, can't purchase YYYYY at this time." On my computer, I get a dropped interenet connection error.

I had downloaded an update Friday morning, without issue. I came across the issue Friday night as I attempted to purchase a game. Sometime after midnight I tried again, and at that point I was prompted to create security questions. Once I did that, the game downloaded without issue.

Hope nobody else is experiencing these issues.

Most common cause (which is very prevelant - sad Apple won't address this themselves... love customer service from the all mighty Apple...) is that there are downloads stuck and all other apps (whether new or updates) are waiting for those to download before the new ones will, hence the "waiting" status.

You can either:

1. Update apps on your laptop and then sync (defeats the purpose of the cloud)

2. on you iphone/ipad go to itunes app, click on "more" then "downloads" and there are most likely itunes downloads there that got stuck and need to be deleted. Swipe to delete.

2a. For good measure, click on itunes app, music, then scroll to bottom and sign out of itunes account then sign back in.

This should solve most of these "waiting" problems.

Can't wait for Apple to send me a check for solving a huge customer service issue...

I've been encountering this problem on my iPad 3 for a while. It is always ONLY when I am connected to wifi. When I turn wifi off and switch to 3G, the apps download first time ever time. It makes no sense!

*every

The other thing that seems to work is if you switch on Airplane Mode, then turn it off again. Every time I've tried this, the App has continued to load straight away on the next attempt. It is annoying and doesn't solve the problem, but at least it is a workaround until the issue is resolved by Apple.

I have the same exact probleum with my IPads and iPods

Same hear, just bought this new iPad 3 for my dad, downloaded apps fine yesterday but not today. Been reading around for a solution for hours and no luck. Only thing different I did was update the iPad as apple sent a notification to do it. Every time I hit download on an app, icon appears but just says waiting and never downloads. Was my job to set this iPad 3 up and send it away to dad. But cant do this now, how annoying, had it 2 days!

I figured this one out.

1) Delete everything off of your recently used apps

2) Turn off wifi

3) Put device in airplane mode

4) Turn off by holding down power button and sliding to turn off

5) Turn back on

6) Turn wifi on

7) Turn airplane mode off

8) Try downloading/updating the app(s) agian

This has worked for me.

I have had the same issue described here. and I tried what @Gogism did and it worked for me! Man that's rediculious!

I had two podcasts waiting to be downloaded (stuck) in my itunes app, So, I delete both of them and presto! my app store updates started working! I have a suspicon that the new Podcast App that got released this Tuesday (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podcasts/id525463029?mt=8) had alot to do with why I had issues downloading my podcasts (which I first attempted to download somewhere around Tuesday the 26th 😕)... hence why I had issues downloading apps from the app store. Apple really should send you a check @Gogism THANK YOU! 😉

gogism wrote:

Most common cause (which is very prevelant - sad Apple won't address this themselves... love customer service from the all mighty Apple...) is that there are downloads stuck and all other apps (whether new or updates) are waiting for those to download before the new ones will, hence the "waiting" status.

You can either:

1. Update apps on your laptop and then sync (defeats the purpose of the cloud)

2. on you iphone/ipad go to itunes app, click on "more" then "downloads" and there are most likely itunes downloads there that got stuck and need to be deleted. Swipe to delete.

2a. For good measure, click on itunes app, music, then scroll to bottom and sign out of itunes account then sign back in.

This should solve most of these "waiting" problems.

Can't wait for Apple to send me a check for solving a huge customer service issue...

**UPDATE**

I also was having probloms downloading new apps and I just successfuly downloaded the one I've been trying to for days... 😁 HOORAY! Back to normal!

Message was edited by: ice0ver13

I HAVE THE ANSWER YOU ARE LOOKING FOR I THINK!!!

ios only wants to download one thing at a time and if something gets stuck and you forget about it- oops. your screwed.

I did EVERYTHING, including a reset all settings that required a hookup and restore from my imac...anyway,

what it was- I HAD AN OLD PODCAST I TRIED TO DOWNLOAD THAT DIDNT DOWNLOAD. tHIS SAT THERE FOR A FEW DAYS AND I FORGOT. WHEN I TRIED TO DOWNLOAD AN APP, IT WAS STUCK.

IT WAS FIXED INSTANTLY WHEN I SWIPED TO DELTE THAT STUCK PODCAST IN THE :ITUNES: APP.

Good luck. I hope this helps. I never had an apple problem this frustrating. On my hp laptop-once a week lol.

I have the Apple iPhone for *** and I am having the exact same problem as everyone with the applications not downloading I tried to update some applications and halfway through updating they just stayed at a dark color and you can't even go into them now they didn't never finished downloading the updates