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

Add 2 Ipad Mini's to the list. Mine and my wife's same problem.

This has been going on now for a couple of days. Our iPhones update fine but the iPads can only update the apps through the purchased tab.

I'm so glad I was able to find out I wasn't the only one having the blank screen on updating apps. I hope Apple is working on a real fix. Until then, I'll take the suggested route of going thru Purchased and do updates.

Thanks much guys n gals.

Add me to the list- Ipad3- it might affect the Ipad2 as well- but that doesn't have any updates-

The purchased tab is works well- it said I had to update 2 things I had deleted awhile back- when I went to do it though it did not reinstall the deleted apps- but it removed the number update icon.

For those that are using the purchased tab but cannot find all the apps needing updated go to the top where it says ipad apps and change to iphone apps it is probably listed in there, at least this was my solution.

Logging out of my AppleID and logging it back in just resolved this issue for me!

If you're not are of how to do this, go to

>> Settings

>> iTunes & App Stores

Top of page, click

>> [Apple ID]

>> [Sign Out]

Then, top of page, complete fields

>> Apple ID

>> Password

>> Click [Sign In]

Wait a few minutes, then open System > App Store again.

Once I logged back in, the App Store wouldn't open immediately, but it DID open when I tried a few minutes later. It's still opening on continued attempts a half an hour later.

Good luck!

Ditto. Same problem and I have tried every solution, wacky and logical, I could find online: reboot, reset network settings, reset iPad and reboot from iCloud, changed year, changed language. Nothing works. Glad to know I'm not the only one being annoyed by this.

Darn - no luck with this for me. I had hopes, because it was one of the few semi-logical steps I hadn't tried yet. Unfortunately, I'm still seeing the same behavior. The badge indicates there are available updates, but the Update tab in the App Store remains stubbornly blank. The rest of the tabs work normally.

For what it's worth, after signing back into my AppleID and opening the App Store, I left that tab open for 10 minutes or more. That should have been plenty of time for results, since the Purchased tab clearly recognizes my ID.

Having the exact problem on ipad 2. Found under purchased section the three items that had updates available.

I'm actually thinking that leaving the Update tab in App Store open for a long time won't do it. I'm thinking that closing it, waiting a while, and opening it again is what was needed.

I'm thinking this because when Update is opened, it makes a request to a server. If that request fails to arrive, fails to execute, or the results don't appear, I'm thinking that additional requests aren't sent. (I'm thinking this due to my limited Apple product experience, past behavior I've seen.) I'm thinking that you have to manually send any additional requests by re-opening Updates.

FWIW, the whole 2 days my Updates wouldn't open, my Purchased DID open. Purchased recognized my Apple ID and behaved properly while Updates did not. That speaks to me of a different server/cluster receiving the request. I didn't try Featured, Top Charts, or Genius during the period when Updates wouldn't open but Purchased did open, sorry.

Logging out of my Apple ID and logging back in has resolved the issue for me.

Thx SO much for advising that a particular solution worked!

I tried that method. No luck. Maybe leave signed out, power down, power up. Then sign in. About to try again.

I just logged out of my apple id and restarted my ipad. Then signed back in. Didn't work.

it didn't work for me on the first try after logging Apple ID out and back in. It DID work 3-5 minutes later.