Alex,
thanks for for the reply. Unfortunately you may have misunderstood my problem.
The problem actually is that apps that I have already downloaded won't update. The App Store shows that various apps need updating, but when I try to update them the update circle spins none stop, and they never actually update. I have very strong wifi, I can browse on safari etc, but the apps seem stuck. This does appear to be quite a widespread problem.
to try to resolve the issue I had reset things like the wifi, the iPad settings etc, but nothing seems to work. When I mentioned it in work today, three other people. Said they had the same issue. So we tried to resolve it and had some success.
basically we took one iPad and reset the settings. We then turned off the wifi and hard reset the iPad. After a couple of minutes we then turned back on the iPad and turned the wifi back on. At this point we logged into the App Store and then started to delete apps from the iPad one by one. After we deleted an app we tried to update one of the stuck ones through the App Store. After doing this for a little while, ie. Delete one app at a time and then retrying the update of a stuck one,it seemed to correct the problem and the apps which had been stuck on update actually updated.
we came to the conclusion that it must have been one of the apps causing a conflict which then locks the update process. We then tried the same approach for my stuck iPad and it worked again. The big problem with this method though is that I couldn't tell you which app caused the jam or why. On my iPad it was Google maps which once deleted seemed to unlock the update process, on the other iPad it was boom beach. It seemed very random. Also in deleting each app you lose the data. It was the only way we could fix the problem, but it was time consuming and only time will tell if it's a long term solution.
to put this into context my iPad had effectively stopped updating since nov, but my colleagues were stuck from April and July. At Least we all seem to be ok now, but as mentioned time will tell.
