App Store update tab won't show or allow updates on iPad but will on iPhone?

Just want to chime in that I'm having the exact problem with my iPad 2 and not my iPhone. So glad to see others are having the same issue. Seems to me it only happens on iPads, which is very strange. Hopefully there'll be a fix. I've tried quitting the appstore, rebooting my iPad, even changing the language setting (suggestion from an old thread found by googling), and nothing has worked so far.

I am having the same issue on my ipad2. I had to go through the "purchased" tab to do the updates.

Yep, me too. Same problem here.

I am having the issue also ipad 2 , my i phone and i pod are both fine. I have reset, changed language and closed the app. Nothing has worked except going to the purchased page but it only showed me 2 of the 6 updates the badge icon said i have. Hopefully they will fix it soon I dont want to miss a candy crush update.

I have had the same issue on my iPad2 for at least two days. Glad to see it's not just me.

I am having the same problem. For the last two days, the updates tab on my iPad is blank. The only way to update my apps is by syncing with iTunes on my PC. My other IOS devices work normally.

I also have this problem on a "new" iPad. It updated apps fine a day or two ago, but despite the fact that now 15 apps show in the badge, the update tab has been blank for at least the last 16 hours. All other tabs for the app appear as usual, and the iPhone 5 updates apps normally. iOS is up-to-date on both devices.

I have tried the following troubleshooting steps:

- Cleared all apps from the iPad memory.

- Turned Wi-Fi off and then turned it back on.

- Turned Wi-Fi off entirely (LTE network).

- Turned the iPad off (red slider) and back on.

- Rebooted the iPad (with Home and Sleep buttons).

- Power-cycled both my modem and router.

I agree that it doesn't sound like a system restore will solve the issue. Too many others are also having this problem. Server seems like the likely culprit.

Experiencing the same. 3rd gen iPad.

Same problem with me... Seems like it must be an app store issue...

Add on more iPad 2 to the list... My badge count has gone up the past few days, but the updates tab still is blank.. This is what I've tried so far:

- close the App Store

- reboot the iPad

- logged off my account and tried again

- found an old article to try setting the year ahead

None of the above has helped. My iPhone 5 has not had this issue...

iPad 3, same issue. I'm sure it will get fixed but still annoying. Hate seeing little red badges next to apps.

I also tried changing my "language"...

As someone else mentioned, my updates will work through the "purchased" tab, and now my badge is gone as all updates are complete, but going to the Updates tab, it is still blank and does not show the "All apps up to date" message...

Let me start by saying I am someone that works in IT for a living with that said I understand the reasoning in sometimes apple techs always assuming a user problem but I can assure everyone this is not the case I own 4 iPads and two iPhones ipad gen, 1,gen2, and two gen 4, both iPhone 5's update fine neither my wife or my ipad 4 with different apple id's will update but state updates are available, but update screen blank as others have said, my guess something messed up when apple took servers down due to security problem recently in the news. I have not checked my kids ipad 1 and 2 yet but assume same results, hope this helps others from beating head against the wall. I have 0 plans on restoring my iPads this is terrible advice IMO, apple fix your servers you have a problem. This has been at least a couple days now. Oh I support enterprise customers with thousands of iPads I will be checking with some of them Monday and see what they are seeing as well.

Add another one. Shows I need to update 2 apps but when I go to the tab there is nothing there.

I also have the same issue, noticed about an hour ago. But by checking each application status under PURCHASED button, I was able to update one app, namely Evernote, that showed 'update' instead of 'open' . But the second one, I am unable locate any till now. However now the update numbers has come down to 1 after the successfully updating of Evernote! Hope apple understands the issue and corrects it soon.