iPad can't connect to App Store.

I'm just wondering why I had to do this in the first place? I had a 64gb and traded it in for the one with more gb and I never had to go to settings and do this "time switch thing" with the 64gb ipad. Could there be something wrong with my new ipad? Also both we're new... Like why I had to do this on this ipad but not other one. Is it a hardware or software issue? Should I go get another ipad since I just go this one today? Maybe apple didn't install things right on this ipad? Will I have to fix more things on it?

Idk just opening up a brand new ipad and having something already WRONG with it makes me frustrated and discouraged. Idk if I can trust the apple ipad product since it seems to have so many glitches... Also the screen was flickering when I was downloading new apps is this normal? Also I touched one app in the App Store and it opened up the one above it as if I were clicking the one above it when I didn't... It only happened once..

Idk I'm just scared these problems are just a SIGN that I have a BAD IPAD. ?????

Thanks Minhfromnj. That worked.

I tried signing out, reboot, signing in. Did not work.

I tried resetting all settings as suggested. Did not work.

Setting the date a year ahead, signing in the app store and then setting the date back to the correct time WORKED. Simple. Thank you @9thoma!

Hi,

I had the same problem as you but I managed to fix it by doing the following:

1. Fully turn off your ipad

2. Turn your ipad back on

3. Go to settings> general> restrictions> at the top it will either say enable restrictions or disable restrictions - if it says enable restrictions you will need to talk to apple bout the code - if it says disable restrictions, click on it, type a pin code in, then re-enter the pin code so you will be disabling the restrictions.

After that it should work, if not please reply!

I tried all above mentioned: reboot iPAD, remove VPN, reset all setting, changing date and time, restrictions on but nothing happened. "Cannot connect iTunes & App Store" still remains! Any other ideas?

Hey Vahraz,

I have a sugestion if you have not already fixed the problem..

I had the exact same problem, just go to General - Reset and then Reset til Network conections.

Vola - problem solved (:

Regards M

Merci bc AndreasMalthe for your suggestion.I resolved my problem, actually an app had hanged up when iTunes tried to update it before. I found the app, closed it and after that i could sign in to iTunes.

Thanks Timothy , tried that but failed

It worked for me! Just changed the time/year. Thank you!!!!!

All i done was reset my dateand time back to automatic and it worked. what I.O.S do you have on there

That is good.

NOTE!! If you are going to do that, backup anything that needs to be backed up

Thanks, AndreasMalthe! Your solution finally worked for me.

I am using iOS 7.1.1 on my iPad. I was not able to connect to the App Store or iTunes. Here are all the steps I tried before yours worked:

1) I set the date forward a year then tried to sign into iTunes. I still could not sign in.

2) I set the date back to automatic. I still could not sign in.

3) I used Reset > Reset All Settings. I still could not sign in. NOTE: this still remembered my Wifi connection and password.

Then I read your post and used the Reset > Reset Network Settings. After my iPad restarted, I had to select my Wifi network and enter my password then I was finally able to login!

Thanks Capitalsforsizzlesam, your suggestion worked fine for me! 🙂

My story: unable to connect to iTunes Store from iPad or MacBook Pro. All the above suggestions failed to resolve the problem for the iPad. This was using my iPhone with WiFi Personal Hotspot as network. Because the Apple Knowledge Base article on the subject focuses almost exclusively on network issues, I decided to try our network at work, instead of the iPhone. And voilà! worked like a charm, on iPad as well as Mac. So apparently there's something squirrelly going on with the iPhone network connection -- even though all other types of network access seem to work fine.

It's the date and time........ My GF plays candy crush and keeps changing the date forward.... Set it back to auto and you'll be fine guys.....