iPad Air since iOS 8: Apps not updating and downloading no longer possible. Fix?

Ipad Air running 8.02. Tried resetting, not restoring from backup, hard resets etc... the problem came back again and again after all those short term fixes. Even impacted Evernote from launching properly.

deleting all newsstand subscriptions (pcmag and wsj) as recommended this morning seems to have resolved my issues. I have been successfully running Evernote and downloading other apps for over 8 hours....woo hoo!

thanks for the suggestions folks, happy to have my iPad working again.

Uninstalling the WSJ app worked for me. I uninstalled PC Magazine, Popular Science, and Popular Mechanics also but added them back and they all work properly now. I have not re-downloaded WSJ again.

I just found out, too, that I cannot download anything. I just get the "waiting" message, but nothing is working. I cannot update to 8.02 either. Every time I try, I get the message "An error occurred while checking for a software update."

This is tremendously frustrating. Apple has to fix this, pronto, or give us all some money!

Same here -deleting the WSJ App did the trick. Thanks to all of you for figuring this out🙂

NO thanks to Apple, that has been USELESS on solving this issue. The IOS 8 team should see some heads roll.

Deleted WSJ app and that seemed to do the trick. Amazing that this was the issue. The WSJ app is such garbage. For the amount they charge each month they should have a kickass app. For years it has been buggy. Also never auto downloads at night so I'm constantly burning through data to pull down an issue on my commute to work. When they redeigned the app a week or so ago it took some getting used to the flow but seemed more stable. I really do rely on the content so need to figure out what to do.

I deleted WSJ App and other subscriptions and now it is working for me. However, I can not get my Esquire and Bicycling magazine subscriptions to reload. Still frustrating on new ways.

Same problem here. Resetting all settings and deleting WSJ app haven't done the trick for me. Very annoying...

Deleted all apps waiting to be updated. Didn't work either.

I Am having same issue and about to take this new iPad air back and get my money back. Very frustrated. Still inside the 14 day window.

No need to delete apps. Turn of background refresh, delete all running apps on multitask window... Turn ipad off then on if necessary...good luck.

I've upgraded to 8.02 via iTunes as this was not possible from IOS8.....system just hung up. After successful update via iTunes the apps still still spin aimlessly anod do not update. Back to the computer for updates via iTunes. Terrible waste of time.

I followed crispiniii's suggestion: Turn off Background App Refresh and reboot iPad Air. For me, this solved the problem of app updates not downloading and news stand subscriptions not working.

Third wipe and restore last night. Has been working since. longest period of time, so I think it's fixed. Probably nothing I did fixed it, rather something was fixed on Apple's end. i was WSJ subscriber, but I had deleted and restored that app the previous two restores and the problem reoccurred. Hope it's fixed for everyone.

I Will not be upgrading to anymore dot zero iOS releases.

crispiniii,

I like the background refresh feature, so I would hate to lose that. Hopefully WSJ will publish an update. Or will simply turning off their background refresh fix the problem?

Sadly, it's not the perfect solution. It would just prevent apps from "gumming up" the system. Still, it's better than having to having to pinpoint problem apps and deleting them... Btw, u may also need to get rid of the apps in the multitasking window just to be sure...

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