iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore

So basically what Apple has done is taken it the apps to transfer on iTunes on your computer and making you recover them from icloud. So if you will be working with them tell them to put the tab back so people can recover them off of their computer instead of the galactically slow iCloud! This has got to be the worst move ever!

Thanks

I followed James Mol's advice above and it worked for about 10 apps. There are another 30 that have the cloud and down arrow that either won't even try to download or just spin constantly. But at least some got added.

I used a few of these tips like logging off in the app store with no results. I then stopped all of the apps trying to download, making all of them have the cloud icon next to them before signing out. Waited for a brief moment before signing back in. I then went down the list of apps one by one redownloading and they all came back pretty quickly. Hopefully this helps.

After waiting for a couple hours for my Apps to restore, this is what I found with my 8 Plus. Using 3D touch I clicked on each App that was stuck on Waiting and selected "Cancel Download". Instantly the App became available. It seems most of the Apps had been downloaded, but each one still said waiting. The ones that hadn't downloaded, were deleted by this method, but were easily retrieved afterwards, by re-downloading them from the cloud. Hope this helps.

We eventually went to Genius Bar. It was suggested to us that perhaps our back up was somehow corrupted, so we restored the new iPhone X as a new phone and went to the Apple Store and just downloaded the apps. This worked well. Since all photos and contacts were shared, those were recovered too. Only lost some texts.

This is what I did:

After trying all the steps above, I decided to restore my iPhone to factory settings, erease everything to start again, I choose “set as a new iPhone” then when I arrived to the option to restore from iCloud or restore using iTunes i select iTunes, the iPhone restore and the app download as usual, problem solved

Hi James. Is there any how-to from your what you have learned from Apple or elsewhere? Similar issue here - when moving from 5S to 8, some apps got stuck in "waiting" state and some other in "loading" state, nothing helped to get it moving again :-? (among others also upgraded iOS to latest 11.2.6 + iTunes to 12.7.3.46) I am surprised that there is no patch yet if this is a known issue /probably iOS issue... - any advise how to proceed pls to have a fully working piece of hw&sw? thanks in advance!

Hi. I was fighting with it for hours and the only thing that worked at the end was getting it back to factory setting (via iTunes), start it as a new iPhone and then load the back-up once again... then all went fine. Hope it helps.

Hi. I was fighting with it for hours and the only thing that worked at the end was getting it back to factory setting (via iTunes), start it as a new iPhone and then load the back-up once again... then all went fine. Hope it helps.

If you are really stuck, Suggest you call Apple Care at 800-275-2273 in the US. Support is free for a time when you buy a new Phone.

Everything I did was on the first page of these posts.

Nice thing about Apple Care, one you get started you get put in the system and if you have to call back, they should be able to pick up where you left off.

Thank you so much! I I was going crazy trying to get my apps to download on my replacement iPhone 5s that I was restoring from backup. Your method was the only one that worked for me. It takes some time but it allowed me to get my apps fully downloaded again. Thanks again!

I experienced this problem when upgrading from an iphone 6 to an iphone x (both on IOS 11.3). I believe that this is a bug relating to the fact that apple requires a wifi connection for most downloads (even when the user opts to use cellular data). I first paused all downloads to update 1 at a time and they never moved. As a last resort, I connected to a hot spot (using the same cellular data plan and location) and all of my downloads happened almost immediately.

This what I did too, iPhone6Plus to IphoneX had to update my new and old phones OS first and backup in iTunes, but also I signed out fully from my old phone and erased to factory setting removed my old and new phone from authorized devices from within iTunes on my computer under account.

Then restored from back up and the placements of apps in folders was the same, but unable to use some older apps as noted by others and given the option to keep or delete.

Most data preserved

Interesting my son migrated from his 5s to my old iPhone 6plus without any issues.

Yeah this one helps, for me I had to force restart my iPhone twice and try updating from the app store, and also i tried to pause the others and some of the apps started to download continuously but very slow as in slow... So i think in this case let Apple know that we're having this problem with their app store or maybe just maybe they're fixing some updates too on the app store...

This seems to have worked the most for me. I hid all the "purchased" apps that were unavailable to download, and I deleted all the "loading/waiting" apps (not "cancel download"; tap and hold, and then hit the x) and so far when ive gone to download a new app, it seems to work correctly. It's going to be very annoying to not have all my apps initially, and to not have any of the data, but it seems to be the only thing that's worked so far.