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App updates not showing in App Store

Ever since I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 6, the App Store has not been showing updates properly. Periodically, it will show a badge indicating that there are updates for apps available. But when I open the App Store, I see this:

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If I tap on another tab, like Charts or Featured, and then come back to Updates, it still says all apps are up to date. I have to force quit the App Store app (double tap Home button, tap and hold on App Store icon then tap the minus sign, then hit the Home button again) and then open it again in order to see this:


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A similar thing also happens sometimes when there is no badge, but I decide to go in to the App Store to manually check for an update. It will show no badge on the Updates tab, and the main screen says all apps are up to date. But when I force quit App Store, and open it again, it will show updates are available.


Prior to iOS 6, we could tap on the Updates button and it would force a refresh and check for updates again. That no longer seems to be the case. That in addition to it intermittently or incorrectly showing updates makes it difficult to know if app updates are actually available.


Is this just my iPhone or is anyone else experiencing something similar? Either way, does anybody have a solution?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 11, 2012 2:27 PM

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Dec 13, 2013 7:35 PM in response to mrbofus

i'm having a similar problem but mine is that the App Updates are showing up in my iPhone5/iOS7 and iPad3/iOS6 but not showing in my MBAir/iTunes11. tried updating to the latest iTunes but still nothing. this started only yesterday... i hope it is just a bug with Apple servers and would solve itself soon.

App updates not showing in App Store

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