You can continue to tap on the icon again and again in hopes of resuming the downloading but nothing seems to help. Although this is a brain-teaser, however, the good news is regardless of the reasons, you can fix it by trying a few methods. By the end of this guide you will know how to fix the waiting issue that occurs when you are downloading apps from the App Store. Make sure your Wi-Fi or Cellular data is working, and make sure there are no issues with the connectivity. In case you are using Wi-Fi network consider switching to cellular data to see if the download resumes.
This should fix iPhone apps stuck on loading issue. Now, this issue is something that many users forget easily. With low memory on your iPhone, apps can get stuck while downloading. This issue can occur on any device no matter if you have a shinny new iPhone 12 or an older iPhone 6s. After clearing memory, re-download the required app. This should fix app stuck on waiting for download problem.
This next tip can be very effective in fixing the iPhone app stuck on waiting issue. If the issue persists, make sure there are no apps running in the background.
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There you go folks, this is how you can fix iPhone or iPad apps stuck and not downloading. Stay tuned to iOSHacker. Apps How to iPad iPhone. 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. The problem I have now is, I cannot download new apps from the App Store.
Any thoughts? Nov 28, AM. Had the same issue. I followed James Mol post but nothing happened. After 2 days called Apple Support. The problem for me was the restore was interrupted and stopped in the middle of the restore.
This is what she told me to do and it worked. Do a force restart. For the iphone x, do this right after the other in this order 1. The only problem was I lost some apps. Option 1 is to reset and erase and do another restore from backup. Option 2 is to download the apps again. I chose option 2. Dec 1, AM. Dec 14, PM in response to riverfreak In response to riverfreak. Dec 14, PM. That was after two days of spinning circles. Dec 19, AM. Question: Q: iPhone apps stuck on loading after restore More Less.
Communities Get Support. 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.
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