Purchase of item not available?

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Purchase of item not available?

I just got the iPhone X today. I got everything transferred and everything seems to be working well, except that I am continuously getting an error message at random times that says, “Purchase of item is not currently available. Item is being modified. Please try again later.” It gives no indication as to what it’s trying to purchase and I haven’t actively attempted to purchase anything. Anybody else having this issue? It isn’t a major problem, more of an irritation.

Posted on Nov 3, 2017 5:32 PM

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freekydeek Author

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Nov 4, 2017 3:31 PM in response to pziddy

Resetting my phone seems to have worked. I erased all content and settings and started over. It seems like whatever was causing the error wouldn’t let me backup my phone to iCloud either because the most recent backup I had was from the night before the 10 was released. If you’re going to try this one, I wouldn’t wait too long.

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freekydeek Author

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Nov 5, 2017 12:21 PM in response to pziddy

Got it. It had something to do with trying to restore from my backup. A friend who set up as a new device and did not restore from backup didn’t have this issue. I went into settings, went into my iCloud account and went to backup. There it let me stop the restore I had in progress, which of course means some things might not finish transferring over, and allowed me to manually backup my new phone. Hope that helps.

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pziddy

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Nov 4, 2017 3:29 PM in response to freekydeek

This worked for me. I kept getting the “Purchase of item is not currently available. Item is being modified. Please try again later” error. Deleted Music off phone. Removed old apps. Error message continued. Then erased phone and restored from Backup. No more errors appeared. Best wishes.

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zak75

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Nov 6, 2017 8:36 PM in response to freekydeek

Seems that the problem finally resolved once my phone finished restoring from backup.

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askbarnabas

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Nov 3, 2017 6:14 PM in response to freekydeek

Have you tried to reset your network settings? settings>general>reset>reset network settings. Since the ten is so new you might not get a perfect answer right away. There are several users here that were able to get it but some of us have not.

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zak75

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Nov 4, 2017 10:20 AM in response to pziddy

Thanks for sharing. Did you restore from iCloud backup? If so was it a different backup than the one you used initially when you got the new phone?

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zak75

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Nov 4, 2017 6:49 AM in response to freekydeek

Same problem here. I thought it was due to some old apps that are not available in App Store any more but I deleted those and the problem remained. Waiting to finish restoring phone and back it up to see if the problem persists.

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freekydeek Author

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Nov 3, 2017 6:11 PM in response to askbarnabas

Unfortunately that didn’t do the trick… thanks though!

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freekydeek Author

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Nov 3, 2017 6:27 PM in response to askbarnabas

Dang. Thought it worked but it’s still doing it… 🙁

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freekydeek Author

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Nov 3, 2017 6:55 PM in response to askbarnabas

Seems like an issue with the store or my Apple ID. If I log out of my ID on the phone, a few minutes later it asks me to sign in, when I do it gives me the error message.

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freekydeek Author

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Nov 4, 2017 8:07 AM in response to zak75

Let me know how that works. I thought about completely erasing the phone and starting over again like new, but didn’t want to do all that for nothing.

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