Status wheel spins constantly

I did once, after a restore as new at that. And it wasn't syncing anything in the background.

I did a reset (home + power) and it hasn't happened since. That was about a month ago.

 

I was actually talking syncing just stating the data spinning thing was going when I knew it wasn't syncing.

 

Nothing to do with Pandora. Mine did it straight after a clean install and setting up as a new phone. A hard reset cured it.

Then a few days later it happened again. I did a fresh install after that and it went away...only to return again. A hard reset cures it temporarily.

 

I just assume it is the NSA logging into my iPhone.

 

It goes away for weeks on end but does eventually come back.

 

For those (and it's not that many) that had it happen a restart gets rid of it for good in the vast majority of cases. That said, there can certainly be something else unusual to it for some minority as well that could cause it to come back and/or various other even more unusual issues.

 

I've had this happen on iOS 7.1 specifically on my iPod touch... Dunno if this is a bug, but I can confirm it comes back. Hoping to see it gone in iOS 8

 

status wheel spins constantly

I don't know how else to state that it's completely unrelated to syncing before you get it. Lol

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Btw. It was coming back on my phone because automatic app update was on. Once I turned it off it never came back.

Default setting was on, at least for me.

 

Yeah, the best I could tell is that it was somehow connected to the App Store, like some stuck download (even one you can't really see) or something like that. I don't have any auto updates or installs enabled so the one time it came up for me like that a restart got rid of it for good. Having read various threads with the same behavior, for the most part restarts got rid of it for different people as well.

 

I mean seriously, is that what you're worried about?! A spinning icon?

 

If it means (possibly even consistent) data and/or battery usage that can't be explained, then why wouldn't someone worry about that?

 

This happens in iOS 7.1 Whenever you start a download in App Store and stop it (not pause). The data wheel keeps spinning on the homescreen. A restart fixes it. Happens again if you repeat the above steps..

 

That's can be a pretty big deal on a tiered data plan.

 

If you assume you have data consumption that you cannot explain...
Under settings there is a list of apps with data usage for each one individually. You might want to check that then, but a spinning wheel doesn't have to mean there's actually something wrong. A spinning wheel can also be just an icon that didn't properly disappear...

 

That still means that something is wrong, even if there's nothing that's actually happening and the wheel spins for no reason.

 

I've been having this issue too, hopefully iOS 7.1.1 will fix it

 

This.

 

I noticed this problem yesterday. I had to revert back to an iPhone 4 (from 5S) and the battery life (among other things) was pretty bad and I noticed the spinning "wheel" for most of the day.

Tried a Hard Reset and see if that does anything.

 

I wasn't able to reproduce it on my iPhone 5