How to cancel a download in progress

I'm downloading some aplicaciones to my device, but I'm sutil waitting after 3 days and I wanna know hoy to cancel all this fáiled downloads.

iPad 2, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 12, 2012 4:52 PM

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Posted on Oct 12, 2012 5:05 PM

Here are a bunch of things that you can try in order to resume the downloads and get out of this jam. You may be able to delete the stalled downloads as well if you really want to do so and that is listed near the bottom of my post.


Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.


Make sure that you do not have a stalled download in iTunes - a song or podcast .... if you have a download in there that did not finish, complete that one first. Only one thing can download at a time on the iPad so that could be what is causing the problem.


If that doesn't work - sign out of your account, restart the iPad and then sign in again.


Settings>iTunes & App Store>Apple ID. Tap your ID and sign out. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.


Go back to Settings>iTunes & App Store>Sign in and then try to update again. Tap one waiting icon only if necessary to start the download stream.


You can also try deleting the waiting icons - tap and hold down on an icon until it wiggles - the tap the X on the icon to delete it. Then try to download again.


You can try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your app preferences and device settings again.


If all else fails, download the updates or the apps in iTunes on your computer and then sync the content to your iPad.

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Oct 12, 2012 5:05 PM in response to Dianis Rojas

Here are a bunch of things that you can try in order to resume the downloads and get out of this jam. You may be able to delete the stalled downloads as well if you really want to do so and that is listed near the bottom of my post.


Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.


Make sure that you do not have a stalled download in iTunes - a song or podcast .... if you have a download in there that did not finish, complete that one first. Only one thing can download at a time on the iPad so that could be what is causing the problem.


If that doesn't work - sign out of your account, restart the iPad and then sign in again.


Settings>iTunes & App Store>Apple ID. Tap your ID and sign out. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.


Go back to Settings>iTunes & App Store>Sign in and then try to update again. Tap one waiting icon only if necessary to start the download stream.


You can also try deleting the waiting icons - tap and hold down on an icon until it wiggles - the tap the X on the icon to delete it. Then try to download again.


You can try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your app preferences and device settings again.


If all else fails, download the updates or the apps in iTunes on your computer and then sync the content to your iPad.

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