iPhone 6 "Restoring from iCloud Backup" forever

Likewise, this worked for me--and everything seems to be in place. The problem for me was made worse by the fact that I was locked out of my own iTunes backup due to a BOGUS encryption password that I never set. To switch to a new iPhone and get it set up SHOULD NOT TAKE 2 DAYS and endless frustration. Thanks.

The problem with that solution is that not all original backup gets recovered. Some Apps do not have the original Data restored. Please fix the bugs Apple. Thank you.

Thank you. I guess I can't rely on iCloud backups anymore.

I Too had this problem (for 2 days).

the culprit for me was an old version of Pages (hidden in a folder) that hadn't fully downloaded.

I Deleted this old version and the error message went away

hope this helps someone out!

Same problem here. It's been a week and still "restoring from backup." All of my apps, videos, and photos seem to be restored, but none of the videos from my old iPhone are visible to iMovie when I plug my phone into my iMac (though the videos I've made since getting my new iPhone *are* visible/downloadable). I'm afraid to stop the restore because I don't want to lose the videos/photos, and I don't want to restart the restore because I'll lose everything from the past week.

What to do?

Watch out! You're likely to lose things if you follow some of the advice above.

My iPhone 6 has been stuck like this for about two weeks now, and it's even asked me a few time whether I wanted to abort. I've been reluctant to stop the restore, as I suspect I'd lose stuff, and the idea of backing up to iTunes (which I never do) and then immediately restoring would logically have the same effect, i.e. I'd create a new backup without the stuff that hasn't yet been restored and then lose it for ever.

I tried the rest of the tips here:
1. turn off Find my iPhone,

2. delete the corresponding app,

3. open a template in each of Numbers, Pages and Keynote,

4. check that no apps are waiting to be downloaded,

5. check that all apps are up-to-date in the app store, and

6. restart the phone normally.

This didn't appear to solve the problem, but when I went back to look at my photos, I found that it now says "Downloading" again (I'm pretty sure it hasn't said this for several days) and the number of photos has started to go up, so if I had stopped the restore, they would have been gone.

A few minutes later, my phone tells me that there's an iOS update (which I decline), and now the restore has finished! I go in and look at my iCloud backup, and it says that the latest backup was "never", so right now I'm running a backup, ahead of updating iOS...

Fun, fun...

I had the same problem, and was able to solve it by doing this:

1. Open Music
2. Tap Songs
3. Scroll and look for songs that show a download in progress
4. When you see one, tap it. It will change to the cloud download icon for a bit, then that will disappear
5. Go through your entire list of songs and do this.

The first time, nothing changed; I did spa second pass, and saw some I'd either missed, or that had started since the first pass. As soon as I finished my second pass, I was able to start an iCloud backup.

Just a heads up from my end. I had been waiting on this process for three days and I did see some progress but at the rate it was going I knew I was looking at a week or more to complete, all the while I was able to make and receive calls and use email, but still could not use Safari or any web based apps. I admit my old phone was bloated with seldom or never used apps, and I should have cleaned house before my last back up to iCloud, but I was a big kid with a new toy, so.....Here is the heads up: about half of my apps were still "waiting" and when I stopped my restore, every single one of them, one by one, just DISAPPEARED from my iPhone 6 Plus. I do have my old phone in tact, so now I will go back and reload the ones I want to keep and I do have full control of this very expensive piece of hardware, so for that I am thankful. Just know your apps could evaporate as mine did and if you did not have a list.......

That happened to me too. iCloud was never this buggy and I really hope they fix such an important feature before customers like me grow tired and switch to a different brand. I mean the whole point of Apple products is that they "just works". Anyway, I manually tapped on 3 apps at a time (while on Wi-Fi) to download them. I wanted to avoid more than 3 just to not screw the bandwidth up and that worked for me. Some of my documents and Data though did not recover. I guess I can no longer rely on iCloud, so I will revisit iTunes for backups in the meantime.

iCloud works just fine for me. And it works fine for 99.9+% of the users.

If you're having a problem, it's likely specific to your situation and definitely not a global phenomenon.

Try restoring via a different wi-finetwork.

Sure whatever you say.

Edgarin108 wrote:

Sure whatever you say.

Believe whatever you want. Your refusal to accept reality doesn't alter reality. If there was such a wide-spread problem with iCloud, then the media would be all over it. There would be thousands of posts & threads on this forum about it.

I process multiple iCloud restores every week (probably 5 or 6 on average), with no issues. How many have you done?

Am I pushing a lot of buttons in here? Have you interviewed a reliable sample and try to figure out the actual truth? If not, you really have no nasis to back it up. Just to put it in the broadest terms, there are far more non-iPhone users (aka Android) than Apple. I know, more models, more cheap choices, saving money and all of that, but the results are there and regardless of the reasons, it is what it is.

Let's avoid this type of drama for now. Can you please provide a reliable solution to anyone here so they can recover all of their lost files, progress in apps, etc.? I only provided a partial solution and that is to tap on the apps to make it faster for thone to download. That does not, however, help to recover Documents and Data, which it is the main issue users have. You suggested a faster Wi-Fi, so where do I find something faster than my 50Mbps home network? Will paying my cable provider to get 100Mbps help? How much more will I have to pay to "keep up"?

Edgarin108 wrote:

Am I pushing a lot of buttons in here?

Nope, you are just one more anonymous opinion.