The spinning loading wheel stays spinning all the time

It worked. I turned off data for most "seldom used" apps. Signed out of iCloud and restarted. Loading stopped. I suspect iCloud was the culprit.

I'm amazed that nobody has answered this, after so many views and sixty six people with the same issue. I can't tell you why it happens and I'm surprised that none of the expert users have any idea either. But I noticed the same continuous spinning wheel, even with all apps closed.

A reboot of the iPhone (holding power and home button down for about ten seconds until the Apple symbol pops up) made it go away.

Hi all, same issue here with iPhone 6, iOS 8.1 -

This is regarding the spinning wheel in Safari only, - not on the HOME SCREEN.

Can reprocess issue as follows:

• Open Safari. Browse via google news (for example) to a news item, that will open up a major newspaper, full of adds and everything. That will open a new tab with this news article you've chosen.
• When you close that newspaper tab, before it was downloaded (with all that adds and stuff), the wheel keeps on spinning.
• Close all Tabs. Wheel keeps spinning.
• Chose different app, return to Safari, Wheel keeps spinning.
• Force, close app (double home button tab, swipe Safari up and away), will stop wheel spinning. (I however had the issue that only a complete phone re-start did help.)

In my case, that kept iPhone from sleep mode. (Usage time and Idle time count the same up.) Phone is discharges quicker. Safari was on Top position in the battery usage history, too.

What I did trying to solve it:

• Settings-Safari - Clear all browsing data (cookies, history...)
• Reset network settings
• Two-Finger-Reboot (two buttons pressed till apple-logo appears... what does that do anyhow?)

Currently, when I face the spinning wheel in Safari not turning off, I just force quit Safari. So far it helps. But it returns everytime I'm reading a web site quicker, than all add-crap was loaded and closed the tab before so.

Same on iPad with iOS 8.1

The data loading wheel keeps on spinning while i am in the home screen and it is not downloading application updates and not doing anything. it happens many times. To reboot the iPhone is a workaround but it is ridiculous and troublesome. Is there a solution on this?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.2

try this.

1. sign out from icloud.

2. restart your iphone by pressing home button and sleep button together until screen goes black.

3. now restart by pressing sleep button as normal way.

4. clear safari browser history, delete all bookmark pages in safari. then close safari completely.

5. set airplane mode, disable icloud reminders, contacts and then restart for 2-3 times. It worked for me.

Same here. Data wheel started spinning. Cleared cookies and the problem seemed to go away.