iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore

My solution was to delete all of the apps that weren’t downloading and to find them in App Store again and download. That was after two days of spinning circles. X

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Just download them from App Store again

Same thing here except some of my apps have downloaded. Some say waiting and other are stuck at the 7 pm position though the download.

I even tried downloading iTunes 12.6.3 to try to see if the apps would restore but have been unable to unlock the backup.

Okay after hours and hours messing around with this, I tried to do a restore from a local backup of my old phone. That in itself was a bit of an ordeal because of the inability to relocate where backups are stored.

Anyway, restoring from a local backup saved downloading 100GB photo library. But the app downloading issue persists -- why apps aren't simply restored from a backup I don't know.

As noted above, tapping on *some* of the "downloading circle" icons in the App Store app causes them to be marked as downloaded (the icon changes to "open"). Neither a hard reset of the iPhone or logging in/out of the App Store seem to do anything at all.

Frustrating.

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.

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!

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've been an Apple customer for years and I'm really disappointed by the constant decline in quality compared to the price paid. When someone pays so much money, it is inadmissible to waste time wandering around looking for solutions like a Microsoft user.

Steve would never have approved the release of such a poor software, so I'm serious about moving permanently to other products.

It just doesn't works anymore, quite tired of it.

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Ok let me tell you guys why this wierd stuff is going on ist reason is iOS 11 its not compatible with ‘Restore’ kinda thing its all messed up ofcourse if iTunes will restore your device but it won’t give you all data back.Apple what are you doing to us!

Thanks so much for the info! Method 3 is the only one that would work for my phone.

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Well, my simple solution worked fine 🙂

I can help anyone who need assistance with this prob. Reginaldgrimes.ssg@gmail.com

I tried this solution and many other ones. None of them are working. :((