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Apps won't download on cellular

noobinator

noobinator

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I know this is more of a T-Mobile problem probably but has anyone had any trouble downloading apps on cellular? For awhile now, going back to the iPhone 5 probably I've never had any sort of consistency downloading apps on cellular. I usually have to wait until I get home and do it on WiFi. This is most painful when doing a restore. I get the "Unable to download, please try again later". If I'm extremely persistent I can usually get them downloaded after a few dozen errors or so.

Anyone else? Any suggestions?
 
noobinator said:
I know this is more of a T-Mobile problem probably but has anyone had any trouble downloading apps on cellular? For awhile now, going back to the iPhone 5 probably I've never had any sort of consistency downloading apps on cellular. I usually have to wait until I get home and do it on WiFi. This is most painful when doing a restore. I get the "Unable to download, please try again later". If I'm extremely persistent I can usually get them downloaded after a few dozen errors or so.

Anyone else? Any suggestions?
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I've run into the same issue lately and I'm on tmobile. Never really had an issue before when I was with ATT. It's a pain when trying to download a new app. It seems if you put the phone in airplane mode then out of airplane mode, I'm able to download from the app store.
 
I am with AT&T. Can't download app updates using cellular. Don't know about wifi because there is none where I am now.
 
I had this problem earlier and I'm on Sprint. I read in another forum that someone in the same city as I am was having the same problem and she's on AT&T. Maybe the App Store is/was down.
 
I've had this problem for several weeks now. It usually would download after I power-cycle the phone.
 
yea power cycle works; actually i've started to have issues probably within the last month or so. I did have a 6plus and attempted to do restores and still had the same problem. When I switched to the 6s plus with the tmobile promo I was hoping that it might've been a phone issue or ios8 issue but with ios9 and the new phone still having the same problem. I'm hoping that things will fix itself.
 
I'm on Sprint and no problems updating or downloading apps. It's funny because I always get the warning when it's over 100mb to retry when on wifi but it downloads anyway.
 
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T-Mobile here, apps fail to download over cellular maybe half the time I try to download something. Doesn't seem to be any solutions as of yet.
 
Glad I'm not alone. This has been an issue for me on AT&T.

Strangely, everything else (cellular data related) is working fine...
 
Restarts don't help me. I mess with signing in and out of my account and then moving the time a year forward and back. After this it usually downloads eventually. I found it best to just wait for wifi but that isn't always an option.
 
Same issue here on AT&T. Web, Instagram, FB, Twitter, iMessage etc worked just fine but downloading apps and some issues in Apple Music. Weird thing App Store home page and search worked fine but couldn't DL. Apple Music would not play from connect and some songs in different playlist would stop or skip. All this while I was 4-5 bars with lte. I hope this is just a bug on Apples end.
 
Same problem here on T-Mobile. Downloads seem to get near completion and fail. I can sometimes try 3-4 times on a single app and all fail but then it will randomly complete the download on a subsequent attempt. There's no rhyme or reason to it.
 
There is a thread on the iOS9 board about it. Thought it was only an AT&T thing.

It might be a 9.0.1 issue.
 
noobinator said:
It's been happening to me for over a year but more the last 3-4 months.
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This has been happening for a few months for me... Kinda hard to pinpoint but definitely before iOS 9 and on three different iPhones.

Maybe it's unrelated but the hotspot feature has also gone to crap over the last few months as well.
 
thelead said:
This has been happening for a few months for me... Kinda hard to pinpoint but definitely before iOS 9 and on two different iPhones.

Maybe it's unrelated but the hotspot feature has also gone to crap over the last few months as well.
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My hotspot on T-Mobile is horrible also. I use it as a wifi hotspot only and it takes forever to show up on my other devices as a hotspot. Sometimes I can't get it to show up at all. Is this what yours does or is the performance just bad once connected?
 
Looks like Apple just released another update 9.0.2. It states it fixes a cellular bug fix. Fingers crossed.
 

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