iPhone Constant spinning circle - data hog?

[thedeejay]

I noticed last night that my iPhone constantly had a spinning circle. Even after closing my apps, I had it constantly spinning. Has this been pointed out as a bug? If it's constantly spinning, I wonder what it's fetching if nothing is running on my phone

 

[bbrks]

Just do a hard reset.

 

[jr866gooner]

This is a glitch, I've noticed it mainly happens after syncing email but I could be wrong..

 

[Apple blogger]

Restart your phone.. This happens when ur downloading something and u stop downloading it in middle... Mag be anything from an app to music on iTunes .. Restart is 1 option or download that particular item which u stopped download ..

 

[thedeejay]

So I restarted it and it went away. So all that time it was uselessly fetching/wasting data? I'm surprised this hasn't been pointed out. Hope it didn't kill my data plan :/

 

[jr866gooner]

I don't think it actively uses data, I think it just appears as if it us with the rotating orb..

 

[C DM]

So I restarted it and it went away. So all that time it was uselessly fetching/wasting data? I'm surprised this hasn't been pointed out. Hope it didn't kill my data plan :/

Quite a few threads have been started about it over the months. Pretty much with the same information as this one.

 

[madsci954]

Happens to me from time to time. I remember reading somewhere that it may be related to iCloud in some way. A reboot always fixes it though.