iPhone 6 "Restoring from iCloud Backup" forever

Go to Settings > iCloud and drag down to Backup. If your phone keeps say that it is 'Restoring from iCloud Backup' Then you should see a button that gives you the option to cancel the restore.

There are some advice for you when your iPhone 6 still shows restoring from iCloud backup.

1. Stop restoring and do it again.

2. Reboot your iPhone 6.

3. Start over again.

4. Use iTunes for backup and restore.

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Downloading pages, keynote, and numbers from app store and then opening and clicking thru app allowed my restore to finish. I do not know why.

I am experiencing this exact same problem with my iPhone 6 Plus. I could care less about the apps but I am very worried about the face that my photos and videos are not downloading. Every time I look in my Photo Albums, it just says "Downloading..." on the bottom of the screen with a lot of blank videos. I started restoring my phone on Sunday. When I go into Settings---iCloud---Backup---there is not option to stop restoring. I have also tried turning off "Find my iPhone" and turning the phone off and on again.

Just wanted to put a +1 that backing up using the sync cable to iTunes and then "Restore Backup" worked like a charm.

I was even surprised how quick the whole process was (like a minute to backup & 5 min to restore) - it didn't even have to reboot the phone!

iCloud sure has come a long ways & it blows Android's restore mechanism out of the water.

Apple eliminated some serious bottlenecks in the way we think & do backups - I'm really impressed despite the hiccup.

hope you other guys who have the issue sort your issue out just as quickly!

I have the same problem , talking to people around, it looks like almost a third of people are still having similar problems. I am very disappointed that there is no official fix for this.

Went to apple store, they said they get tons of people with that problem. The only solution is NOT TO USE CLOUD, just backup your old phone (if you still have it) to itune and restore from itune.

I tried that 3 times, same issue. Don't waste your time. Stop using icloud and use itune backup.

If you can't setup iCloud correctly then don't use it. That will be the best for you.

Use iTunes instead.

I think many users are just trying to find a way to get Apple's attention that this is really important that gets fixed. It's really a shame, iCloud used to be very stable.

Apple does not officially peruse these forums -- these are user-to-user communities. Apple has a web site for submitting bugs -- it is radar.apple.com -- and Apple *will* respond to those. There are millions upon millions of people using Apple products, and the engineers need precise information, not anecdotal evidence. When you file a bug report, you'll get software that will gather the information the engineers need so that they can help you.

So, how does that work when the service is iCloud itself. Should I just hand over my phone to Apple? Because I've done that before and no fix yet. I don't think this problem is specific to one user or one software. Look, I know you're trying to help so this is nothing personal to you, but if so many users are frustrated with Apple, maybe that's feedback to Apple. In my opinion, mistakes are normal. As long as Apple acknowledges it and brings a solution, then customers will be happy. If customers report it and no solution has been brought nor promised for months and months, customers will start getting impatient. There will be days when they found out that after they cancelled backup restoration that some data is gone. Maybe something simple as a game progress is gone, or something more important like photos and videos are suddenly missing. I have seen complaints from customers that say that their entire documents disappeared. I mean Apple's silence could be interpreted as negligence in this case.

People have reported I'm sure of that, but will Apple listen and solve it, will they open up their system to us so we can solve it ourselves, or will it just remain quiet?

Assuming that your phone is working the way you want it, you can just cancel the iCloud restore.

1. Open the Settings app
2. Tap on iCloud.
3. Tap on Backup.
4. Tap on Cancel Restore
5. Confirm

That should do it. At least, it did for me.

Ok I've had his issue for a day but managed to finally resolve it by following 4 steps:

1. Turn off Find my iPhone (not sure why but a few people mentioned it and it seemed to help)

2. Deleted apps that wouldn't download - re-downloaded them from the App Store. Note you will PROBABLY lose the saved data. Luckily my apps were Auto Trader, Amazon, Dropbox, OneDrive, Cineworld and Snapchat. No saved data worth keeping

3. Checked iBooks for books that were struggling to download or didn't download - repeated the same process as above.

4. Did a soft reset.

Restoring from iCloud Backup message has now disappeared.

Very annoying that the process is still so botched and it's 4 months after release!

those of you stopping the restore will probably be losing data. for example mine says the same message on the lock screen. but all my apps and messages look fine.

however other data is still downloading. i had to look through photos to realise it was still downloading these. I have 128gb iPhone 6 plus. it will take some time maybe days!!!.

my advice would be to wait a few days. only then consider cancelling the restore and use the other methods