Apps taking forever to download?

This started happening to me last week. Apps are taking FOREVER to download. Often HOURS for a single app. Tried it on different wifi connections same results. It started before I did the latest OS update, and is still doing it after installing 5.1


Anyone running into this? Iphone downloads fine. Wifes Ipad downloads fine.

SandboxGeneral said:

Are you downloading multiple apps at once, as in multi-update downloads or from a restore where all your apps are being re-downloaded from iCloud?

One thing you can try is to double-tap an app that is in progress of downloading and it is supposed to give it priority in the multi-download queue.

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Either or, I tried a mass update, that took two days to do. I tried downloading single apps and it still takes about a day. Most the time it doesn't even start downloading...just says "waiting"


I've had this ipad for about 7 months, just started doing this

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FYI, this is an Ipad 2

Capt T said:

Did you try a reset of the iPad? Press and hold both the home button and the power button until you see the apple logo.

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yeap, and when It comes back on it still says waiting

Capt T said:

Did you try deleting the app that says waiting and then redownload it?

I have had a couple apps in the past seem to be waiting for a long time...usually a reboot fixes it but once I just deleted it and tried again.

Figured some run time type error or memory error...But that is only a guess

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It won't let me delete the apps since they are "waiting". That said I tried the hard reset again just now and it worked. Then tried downloading another app....still got waiting....hard reset...bam it's there


Any idea why it's doing this? If I have to do a reset everytime I want to download an app that's going to get annoying!

Saberon said:

Same problem here, stuck on Waiting...there's a huge thread at apple support communities with the same complaint, it's not just you.

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You have a link to the thread?