Movie Won't Download from iTunes on iPad

Same problem here. The only solution i have found is connecting ipad to computer and syncing movie with cable. But that kind of defeats the purpose of this whole wireless syncing icloud thing they got going on. Very frustrating.

Eureka!!!!

Turning off home sharing just fixed the issue on my iPad.

Thanks so much for sharing that idea.

I think this is pretty widespread. I can't download successfully, starts, get so far then crashed whole iPad or just fails. When I try again it starts back from the beginning.

• it's not a space problem. The current movie rental I'm trying to download is 2.9 GB. I have over 11 GB available.
• downloading the Mac and syncing doesn't work all the time as a workaround. I used to do this, and it worked fine. Now, however, a lot of iTunes rentals won't download to the Mac because they won't play back in HD on my 3 year-old mini. Why, I have no idea, it can certainly play some in HD, so that's not a bug, just apparently something Apple has decided.

The only thing I can suggest is to give up, call Apple and demand your money back on the rental and get your movies elsewhere. I'm a big Apple guy, but on this simple thing, they are - literally - failing to deliver.

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You have seemed to find the problem. It is a memory usage problem. I had 13GB left and would not load a 3.2GB movie. I deleted 4.6GB and still interrupted the load several times. I let the download run overnight and when I woke the movie was finally there! One more thing, i set the auto-lock to never go to sleep, which I believe is necessary.

so, what is the solution? I just bought a new 32 gigabyte iPad air, to replace my very old 16gigabyte iPad, because i seemed to have so little space for movies. I now have more than 15 gigabytes available, yet I can't seem to download even 1 movie. The movie took almost 2 hours to download 3 gigabytes, it had 1 more gigabyte to go, I went out and when I came back there was the dreaded "cannot be downloaded at this time" message. The icon for the film is on my Downloads screen, with a caption saying "Download Error. Tap to retry." But when I tap, nothing happens.

FIve hours trying to download a movie for my flight - that was enough to time to do it five times over which is what it did. Five times the download wheel completed the process and five times it reset immediately after completing the download. Unbelievable.

Itseems the only solution is to go to iTunes on your Mac and then rent the movie AGAIN (why can't they see you've already paid for it but not watched it!?!?!?) and then transfer it to your iPad via cable then write a letter to Apple to explain their ******** system that doesn't work and get a refund. Yeah, that's really simple Apple. You're headed down the path of Microsoft user unfriendliness and it's beyond frustrating.

am having exactly the same issue. I have 33GB of free space (128gb iPad) so cannot be a storage issue.

Also updated the software with 9.3, and then 9.3.1 but this does not make a difference either.

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Yes! I've been struggling for hours, and this fixed it for me too.

I frequently travel with only my iPhone and iPad and have occasionally run into the rental download issue. While the Mac sync works, it doesn't help when you are away from home. What always works for me is to BUY a new movie. Once it starts downloading, the rentals start behaving. It might work to download a previously purchased movie, but I always have something I want to buy, so I haven't tried that yet. Obviously, not the cheap solution, and potentially annoying to give Apple more money when the rentals aren't working, but it will work as a quick fix on the road.

can't believe all the problems and no help from Apple. I have 82gb available so not a storage issue. Gave up and went back to Netflix!