I did a restore on my new iPhone X and some of the apps are locked up and won't start. Tried deleting and reinstalling them still locked at loading. Any help would be appreciated!
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 8.2
Here’s what I think is happening.
If you do a “Restore from iCloud” , the App Store actually gets a list of every app that you have ever downloaded from the beginning of time. I’ve always found it annoying that Apple won’t let you delete stupid one-off apps that you download. Sure you can “hide” them but why not just delete them?
Anyways, the Restore gets stuck trying to download apps that are dead and missing from the App Store or that or incompatible with iOS 11.
If you go into the App Store, you’ll see a bunch of apps with the pending spinning circle. You can tap on these and pause he download. You’ll see some with a greyed our iCloud. You should hide these by swiping left. Stop all the spinning circle apps. Hide all those with a greyed our iCloud. Hide any garbage you no longer want. Does this carefully as the list updates slowly and it’s easy to hide something you want.
Delete any apps that are in the loading phase. These are probably the blockers that have gummed up the whole system.
Once you do this you can selectively get back on track.
Do note: this completely obliterated the advantage of restoring from iCloud. You will lose data, settings, and app layout. Extremely annoying.
Hi
I tried to do this and it didn’t do anything. All apps are still loading and stuck at 7 position or waiting. It has been almost 48 hours.
if I recall correctly, my migration from my 5s to my 6s could not have been easier, and there was no sort of issue like this at all
Try connecting your iPhone to a computer. Then go on iTunes and Reset your phone. Then try to restore backup again.
Another option is to restore your phone from a different backup.
iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore
