Apps slow to download after restore

Hide all those with a greyed our iCloud. Hide any garbage you no longer want. Delete any apps that are in the loading phase. These are probably the blockers that have gummed up the whole system. Do note: this completely obliterated the advantage of restoring from iCloud. You will lose data, settings, and app layout. Extremely annoying.

Nov 25, AM. Just got off the phone with AppleCare and now the apps are downloaded. Suggest you call AC at if you have the time. After reviewing a number of things I had done, we did a hard reset.

Sound up, sound down then hold the power switch until the white Apple shows. Still didn't change anything. When I clicked the cloud icon, it started downloading. After two deletes, I just tapped on the blue cloud and it started to download. It appears it will only do one app at at time this way. You can select 2, but they download one by one.

At this point, I went to the home screen touched a darkened app and it started downloading. You can touch more than one but the download one ofter the other. You still have to reenter passwords and ID. Page content loaded. After 48 hours of frustration, the answer to this problem for me was somewhat obvious.

I was upgrading from a 6S to an X, but when I tried to restore my backup, most of the apps were "stuck" in a state of loading. Many of the apps need to be updated to the latest iOS, which is the version that was by-default loaded on the new X, and created an issue when trying to sync.

Dec 20, PM. 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! Dec 24, AM. 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. Dec 26, AM. 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. Jan 7, PM. After waiting for a couple hours for my Apps to restore, this is what I found with my 8 Plus. 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. Jan 10, AM. 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. I had the exact same problems as everyone is describing here, and I found the solution. The answer is:. Make sure the iOS version of your new phone is updated to the latest or ideally matching the iOS version of your old phone. This will restart your phone as a new out-of-the-box phone, and after a few steps it will ask you if you want to restore your phone from a backup. Choose yes, and select your backup to restore from.

Then you'll see that everything will work perfectly. The only disappointment is when I discovered certain apps that are no longer available on the App Store will no longer work. For those apps, you'll be given the option to either delete them or keep them but no use keeping an app that doesn't work. I have about apps including some that are no longer on the App Store.

Jan 16, AM. Jan 16, AM in response to ThankGod! In response to ThankGod! Jan 17, PM. Jan 21, AM. I can help anyone who need assistance with this prob. Jan 23, PM. Feb 10, PM. 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 :-?

Mar 2, PM. Mar 6, AM. Mar 6, AM in response to hodalborz In response to hodalborz. Try connecting your iPhone to a computer. Then go on iTunes and Reset your phone.

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Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: Billfromcottonwood Billfromcottonwood. Question: Q: Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore I did a restore on my new iPhone X and some of the apps are locked up and won't start.

More Less. You can also try downloading the applications while connected to a different Wi-Fi network. Feb 28, AM. Question: Q: Slow app download after complete restore More Less.

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