Iphone apps wont download after restore

About 50 of my apps we all of a sudden visible, ready to go. But after another day and a half, no more have appeared and the method I used does not work. Please give it a try and report back. I will get back here after talking with apple. I will reply to my own and share my saga, for those who are interested. Nov 5, PM. Here is my saga and what I have tried so far. The methods are from the internet and some steps, like the "Free button, are not on my phone.

I have tried on two networks, both 2. Started by restoring the iPhone from iTunes After 40 hours only half had downloaded. Very few apps ready after 12 hours.

However 54 of them would show the word open after I tapped the spinning circle. For some reason the iPhone does not know when the app is finished downloading to the phone. I downloaded iTunes However, the apps were not transferred from the computer to the iPhone and it started to download them again. To redownload an app, just tap on the blue cloud icon next to it. If the icon is gray, that means you can't download it anymore either because it doesn't exist anymore in iTunes or because it's a bit app that no longer works in iOS Tried dragging them from finder into the sidebar on iTunes when the iPhone was selected.

Method 2. Here is how to do it:. Method 3. Method 4. Upgrade iOS system to new version: sometimes new apps may not be compatible with the old iOS system. Anyways, the Restore gets stuck trying to download apps that are dead and missing from the App Store or that or incompatible with iOS You can tap on these and pause he download.

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. 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. I was having the same issue.

None of my apps were finished downloading and my phone would not lock. None of my apps would open nor would my control center come up. I spent the day speaking to different apple representatives and none of us could figure out what to do.

After many different attempts, I knew from the start that all I had to do was to get it to turn off but it wouldn't force restart nor go into safe mode or anything. I even tried connecting it to my MacBook Air to restore it again or update it and it wouldn't work. Until, well I'm not sure if all iPhone's do this but if you click the lock button three times, AssistiveTouch comes up.

So my assumption is that maybe the restore process just never finished, I really don't know but hey it works now! Nov 20, PM. Sorry for the poor grammar and typos in my original post.

Getting used to the X. Not that that is an excuse for grammar. I was unable to edit my original post. Here is a cleaner version. Anyways, the Restore gets stuck trying to download apps that are dead and missing from the App Store or that are incompatible with iOS You can tap on these and pause the download. Hide these by swiping left. Hide all those with a greyed out iCloud.

While you are at it, hide any garbage you no longer want either. Back on your home screen, delete any apps that are in the loading phase. Once you do this you can selectively get back on track by picking and choosing the apps you want in the App Store. As others have noted, this completely obliterated the advantage of restoring from iCloud. You will absolutely lose app layout. 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 GB photo library. But the app downloading issue persists -- why apps aren't simply restored from a backup I don't know.

Nov 25, PM. When I set up the new iphonex, The apps hung up for a while. Tapping them led to the download. 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. Then try to restore backup again. Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore More Less.

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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. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Nov 8, AM in response to Billfromcottonwood In response to Billfromcottonwood Same thing here except some of my apps have downloaded. View answer in context. If I understand correctly, you are unable to finish installing apps on your new iPhone X after setting up and restoring from your iCloud backup.

To help resolve this issue, please force close the App Store app and restart your device as iOS clears cached data and does other system optimizations when you turn your device off and on. Then open the App Store app and test if these apps will reinstall on your iPhone.

Called apple care - They advised I restore again. After 12 hour 54 apps ready under not on this iphone 84 app after 16 hours under all 84 apps after 26 hours.