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Madmike1993 Author

Level 1

30 points

Why is there a Spinning Wheel Most of the Time on my Home Screen After the 7.1 Update?

After the 7.1 update, I get a spinning wheel in my notification bar at the top next to the signal strength on my iPhone 5s.

I know that this means there is network connections going on when this happens, but why is it happening so much like this now?

Prior to the update, I only saw the spinning wheel up there when I was downloading an app.

So with it doing this so much, is it using my battery a lot?

What is it retrieving when doing this?

I have mail set to manual, the only notifications I get are for phone, messages, & calendar, and I have Background App Refresh & Location Services turned off.

Help will be appreciated.

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1

Posted on Mar 12, 2014 6:32 AM

83 replies

Sep 26, 2014 5:41 PM in response to cawoodbury

All of those iCloud and iTunes syncing settings are disabled in my phone...all of them from music to app updates..it should not be trying to sync or download anything.

Oct 6, 2014 5:11 AM in response to Madmike1993

The hard reset worked for me!Yay!!!🙂

jcmci

Level 1

4 points

Oct 23, 2014 5:38 AM in response to Madmike1993

I have this problem on a macbook pro. since I upgraded to yosemite and the latest version of iMovie. I have the sponge wheel. I also got the message that If I close or is it delete iCloud all data will be deleted from my macbook.

What can I do?

If I will only loose the diary, etc from my macbook but not from my iPhone I could go ahead but I cannot loose all that data.

Oct 23, 2014 5:57 AM in response to Madmike1993

Are you on iOS 7.1 if you are you need to upgrade to ios 8.1 ? Bsydd uk

hgfgkm

Level 1

4 points

Nov 15, 2014 7:55 AM in response to Madmike1993

The problem is with Safari. I switched to using Chrome and the problem does not occur.

Apr 20, 2015 9:50 AM in response to Madmike1993

i'm pretty sure it has something to do with automatic updates. if you go to settings>iTunes/app store, there's an option for automatic downloads. usually updates is turned on automatically, so try turning it off. see if that helps

May 18, 2015 4:15 PM in response to AmishCake

TThis did the trick for me. After spending over two hours at the. Apple Store working with the genius nothing worked as he said it would. I tried this and bam, it was gone. Thank you so much.

smh48

Level 1

0 points

May 22, 2015 5:07 PM in response to AmishCake

This helped me too. Thanks

Carlosi2

Level 1

0 points

Jun 5, 2015 2:37 PM in response to Madmike1993

It just means your iPhone is syncing with either iTunes or iCloud ... If you download apps on your iPhone or iPad and you set up your devices to synk together....that will cause it also....

Restarting or resetting only delays the process .... so let it ride ... Nothing to worry about... Is all part of Cook's divine plan ... Lol

i.GS

Level 1

0 points

Jun 24, 2015 3:38 AM in response to AmishCake

same...thanks. Fixed the spinning wifi gear.

iPhone 5S, OS 8.3

Apr 6, 2016 1:52 AM in response to viirlaid

Yes, resetting the network settings helped me

Lou_Cos

Level 1

9 points

Apr 15, 2016 5:23 AM in response to musicmanthra

I am on iPhone 6 Plus 9.3.1 and started getting this today when I turn off cellular data it goes away when I turn cellular data back on it comes back. W hen I go in the cellular data settings and turn all the apps off it's still spinning. I will now attempt to reset the network settings under settings\general\reset\reset network settings.

Lou_Cos

Level 1

9 points

Apr 15, 2016 5:42 AM in response to Lou_Cos

So I turned off Cellular Data and it went away, as I said before, then I turned on wifi (and I'm home where wifi is available) and it started spinning again. I don't have any sync settings turned on and I don't share with any other devices, so I have to look deeper into what is going on here.

xnihilx

Level 1

4 points

Apr 21, 2016 4:30 PM in response to Madmike1993

Reset network settings also seemed to have worked for me

iPhone 6S 9.3.1

Dec 28, 2016 11:05 PM in response to AmishCake

Very helpful!It worked!Thank you!

Why is there a Spinning Wheel Most of the Time on my Home Screen After the 7.1 Update?