Why can't I download or update apps on iPad running iOS 8

Yes, something indeed happened on Sep 23rd, the last day updating of apps on iOS8 was working for me. I have done a complete reinstall operation and it works for the time being. No update done.

After doing yet another reset (holding power button and the home button until Apple logo appears), mine suddenly started working. Don't know how it was resolved, but happy my phone is back to normal. For me this was definitely caused by the upgrade from ios7 to ios8. Updating to 8.0.2 at first did not resolve the problem, but perhaps it eventually helped.

Someone must have turned the downloading machine on again... Confirm that after hard reset started to work for me too just now...

Just did a hard reboot and it does NOT work for me on an iPad Air. Are you on a phone or iPad. My iPhone 5 running iOS 8 did not encounter this problem of being unable to update or download Apps and has been operating normally after upgrading to iOS 8. My problem is only on my iPad.

I have an iPad mini retina. Just to make sure check iTunes, Podcast, AppStore,Newsstand and iCloud Drive (on settings) to guarantee that you have no pending download. Not claiming this would work for everybody..maybe I just had my window of luck for the next hour or so....

I was able to work around this by using one of the earlier suggestions posted here. I turned off auto-update in Settings, then rebooted, then I was able to manually download all the app updates. What I don't know yet is whether this will have cleared the root problem when I turn auto-update on again.

Same issue

I'm having the same problems and have tried everything. I'm running iOS 8.0.0 on my iPhone. When I try to update to iOS 8.0.2 through the latest version of iTunes, I get the following error:

Error 3194, Error 17, or "This device isn't eligible for the requested build"

Hey glennieboy,

These are 3

Sounds like the common thread is the iPad Air. My iPhone 5S does not, and has never had this issue. It's running 8.0.2 and updates work fine. If someone has found their iPad Air updating again in iOS 8, please confirm - thanks.

It's not just iPad Air. I'm having this problem on my new iPhone 6. Perhaps there's a different issue for me?

My story:

My new iPhone 6 (regular size) worked fine when I bought it. I've been using both LTE and WiFi.

I had my home WiFi upgraded with a new router by Comcast. Internet browsing and everything works fine on it.

I hit update all a day later on my iPhone 6 and saw that my apps were either updating slowly or not updating at all.

I stopped the updates and went through all the advice in this and other threads (even changing DNS settings)

Now, no apps are able to update or download. There don't seem to be any pending downloads.

No dice. I'm hoping the new router is just a coincidence, since I can't update or download apps over LTE as well.

I've had this problem too for several days and I think I solved it. It's related to credentials. I couldn't download content from my iPad running iOS 8 but I seemingly could from other devices which shared the same Apple ID; however, I noticed that on one of my devices I hadn't actually purchased a new app since the problem started and when I did it asked me to verify credentials (e.g., password and credit card security code). Once I typed those in on the other device, my 'broken' iPad immediately started downloading app updates, magazines, etc and I was able to purchase apps, etc. Seems to be working well now.

they have ios 8.0.2

try through the iPhone

cbhayward - thanks for sharing that. Can you provide some more details? How did you notice that your credentials were not set up on that one device? Was there a purchase waiting for download at the credit card security verification prompt, or was there something else you needed to do on it?