Just restored my phone apps taking forever to download

Before launching the app, I highly recommend you go to Settings Wi-Fi, long press your current wireless network, and tap Forget Network. You'll need to reconnect to that network before continuing. OK that warning, and you'll see a VPN key icon in your notification area.

At this point, your device is using the DNS service you selected, and the Google Play installation issue should be resolved. Most of the time the steps I provided above work like a charm. But, if the problem persists, the issue could be with your service provider, and you'll need to wait until the service provider resolves whatever issue they are having.

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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? What is abnormal are iTunes backup restore estimates with time remaining at excessive lengths of time, often continuously ticking up past 15 hours, 20 hours, 30 hours, etc, those situations are indicative of a problem. Also keep in mind we are talking about restoring backups made to iTunes on a computer, not iCloud backup restores which can take a significant amount of time to complete on slower internet connections.

The following troubleshooting steps only apply to iTunes restores made to and from a computer directly to an iPhone over a USB connection. I personally ran into this problem when restoring and setting up a new iPhone X via iTunes from a freshly made iPhone Plus backup.

The first attempt to migrate and restore the iPhone X with the backup in iTunes gave a time remaining estimate of 8 hours which slowly grew to 20 hours. After following the steps detailed above, I was able to fix the problem and get the entire backup restore process to complete in about an hour for a GB backup being restored to the new iPhone — a reasonable time given the giant backup size.

After searching around a bit I realized a fair amount of other users are experiencing the same problem with iPhone X, iPhone 8, and many older iPhones too over time. Have you had any similar issues restoring backups to an iPhone or iPad with iTunes?

Share your experiences and troubleshooting steps in the comments below, and let us know if the tips above resolved the problem for you. Get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox with the OSXDaily newsletter. Thank you for this tip; my restore time reduced from 6 hours to about 2 hours for Gb. To be fair, 2 hours for only Gb is still excessive. I did the steps you have intructed me to follow, but it didnt work, i tried 5 times in a row but othing, its always gets over 15hrs everytime i try to restore my phone.

Thanks for your help here. Your instructions are confusion for restoring from iTunes. You say: 6. What exactly does that mean? The steps are unclear. Are you saying I should delete all data on my phone first then it will tell me to restore to a clean phone?

Apple tells me to backup from iTunes, plug in the phone to the computer, then in iTunes select to restore. The good part about this is if I unplug, the phone will still work as normal. But restarting my phone and my computer, then following these instructions to restore via the iTunes account has only made things works for me.

What nuisance…my time countdown has evolved in a countUP Can any of those Apple geniuses…ah, just forget it. Hi i have the same problem as you, omg! Recently i bought an iphone xr and currently holding onto an iphone 7, both at the same phone size.

And it ran from 8 hours to 15 hours to 24 hours.