iOS 6 App Store Crashing when trying to view Purchased apps

Unfortunately 6.1 did not fix the issue on my 3rd gen iPad. In fact, the problem seems worsened by the fact that I now cannot log in to see my Genius results either!

It still doesn't seem to be working on my iPod Touch 4th Generation and my iPod Touch 5th Generation after I updated them both to iOS 6.1.

Add me to the list of those extremely disappointed by this continuing issue. Apple's "aware" of the problem but can't fix it? Lame.

zalucas wrote:

CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT APPLE HAS RELEASED AN UPDATE BUT DID NOT ADDRESS THE PURCHASED APPS PROBLEM. STEVE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO ASHAME HOW HIS COMPANY IS HANDLING THIS ISSUE.

Tested on my iPhone 5 after a full restore (read: I've made a clean install without restoring the previous, 6.0.2 backup.) Listing previous purchases still doesn't work with about 1500 purchased titles.

I'm at just over 1300 purchased apps and don't think I'll bother to update to iOS6.1 if this problem now extends to the Genius section. As with all of you, it's utterly disgraceful that a major bug like this is either being ignored or is taking this long to fix. You do not ignore bugs that cause your apps to crash, they're the ones you fix first (speaking with13yrs of QA experience at IBM).

Is there any type of work around? When I updated to 6.1 I restored and a lot of my apps are missing. I am trying to download through my purchased list and like everyone here it constantly crashes. Thanks

Well, the 6.1 update yesterday (1/28/13) fixed the purchases problem for me. I've gone back into itunes and unhid all apps and it still works on my ipad (showing purchased items). Only 3 months to fix it. Man, they need quality control.

What device are you on? I just tried again on my iPhone 4 and it still crashes on me. Maybe I will try hiding lots of apps until it works. Then unhide them. Remind me how you hide them again?

I'm using a 64GB ipad mini with IOS 6.1

My first post a couple of days ago (to complain) tells how to hide apps in itunes and then unhide them under your account.

This is really frustrating. Since I don't know of any way to have another device give me credit for all cash spent in the apple store (i.e., give me those same apps on Android or Samsung), then I am stuck with whatever Apple does.

Are you sure? I've re-tested this twice on my freshly restored (meaning an absolutely clean device) iPhone 5 in a very fast network with my US iTunes Store account with 1580 purchases. No dice: it either crashed or printed "Request timed out". That is, it is surely not fixed.

amanikas wrote:

This is really frustrating. Since I don't know of any way to have another device give me credit for all cash spent in the apple store (i.e., give me those same apps on Android or Samsung), then I am stuck with whatever Apple does.

You can search for them directly in the "Search" tab (the fourth one on the iPhone) - if you remember their names. Then, if you see "Install" instead of the regular price, you can be absolutely sure you can re-download it without paying again.

Unfortunately, this is still far-far more awkward than just browsing prev. purchases under Purchases. Apple should, instead of diligently removing any parts of posts asking for a class action suit as has happened a day ago in this thread too, fix this problem. After all, as I've pointed out above, this problem is very easy to fix - probably even on the server side, that is, without having to issue another firmware upgrade.

I just went through and hid some apps, but then looked a my total. Still over 1700 apps. No way I'm going to be able to manually hide down to 900 apps. I guess I wait. It was entertaining, though, to see some of those early apps that I'd totally forgotten about. Well, sort of entertaining. 🙂

By device, I meant going away from Apple. the commercials for Samsung and others show people adopting new smart phones and such based on the features of the hardware, but if I dont't buy another iphone, i lose all my itunes purchases. I'd like the app developers to offer a buyer on one platform the same game on any other mobile platfor. It will never happen, but I can dream. :)

Yes, I have 1200 apps, and on my ipad mini have pulled up purchases on # different networks now. This is as of the update yesterday. But maybe iphone is different.

amanikas wrote:

Yes, I have 1200 apps, and on my ipad mini have pulled up purchases on # different networks now. This is as of the update yesterday. But maybe iphone is different.

1200 apps? It's around the threshold of the app crashing, maybe.