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"Unable to download item. Please try again later. "

Hello. After updating to iOS8, whenever i turn off and power my phone, I receive a pop-up "Unable to download item. Please try again later. " at first I thought it was an app gone rogue but in the appstore I did not see anything suspicious. After resetting and restoring my device the pop-up kept appearing. By mistake I discovered that if I open the iBooks app the pop-up appears every time. I hace never bought or downloaded any book from here, ever. Did you encounter this error? do you have any suggestions for Me?



thanks

iPhone 5s, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 18, 2014 10:21 AM

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Sep 26, 2014 2:51 AM in response to PaulMorariu

My pop up went away. I signed out of iTunes with my phone and turned off all automatic downloads. I then signed back into itunes and turned them back on. It finally said what it was trying to download, which was the Syro booklet. I deleted that from my purchase history in the itunes store and everything is fine now.


Sign out and and in to your iTunes store account and toggle the auto update buttons!!

Sep 26, 2014 8:59 AM in response to PaulMorariu

My iPhone 4s is having the same problem. I have turned off all iBooks stuff. It did not have the issue after the horrible iOS 8 update, just the update to the update that came out yesterday (8.0.2 I think). no issues with my iPad. Not only did I stop all the iBook auto stuff but I also turned off all updates and syncing, tried both suggestions of turning them on and off but nothing stopped The message from appearing.

Sep 26, 2014 5:48 PM in response to Authself

Tthe only thing I had in itunes was the U2 album and the booklet appeared to have been downloaded already..........so I cleared it out. There is now NOTHING on my iTunes. I disabled iBooks' ability to contact the mother ship. do Dropbox and iCloud and verizon web just add more storage if I exceed my original limits? I haven't tried shutting down wifi, but could probably talk myself out of that......I take that back, I'm going to do it. Is ios8 able to update itself? Duh, will check for version running........and I probably enabled the automatic download myself. RANT RANT, AND FURTHERMORE. Problem only began today......I think.

Sep 26, 2014 6:28 PM in response to Dolgo

Tthe only thing I had in itunes was the U2 album and the booklet appeared to have been downloaded already..........so I cleared it out. There is now NOTHING on my iTunes. I disabled iBooks' ability to contact the mother ship. do Dropbox and iCloud and verizon web just add more storage if I exceed my original limits? I haven't tried shutting down wifi, but could probably talk myself out of that......I take that back, I'm going to do it. Is ios8 able to update itself? Duh, will check for version running........and I probably enabled the automatic download myself. RANT RANT, AND FURTHERMORE. Problem only began today......I think.

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