Waiting i. Phone apps How to install, update, reinstalli. Phone FAQ I have an i. Phone app in a waiting state how do I get it to finish installing or updating Ive been asked this waiting i. Phone app question many times on my How to deleteuninstall i. Phone apps article, so Ive taken the time to organize all the possible solutions Ive seen, and put them in one place. Here then are all the different solutions Ive found about how to get waiting i. Ad0fu.png' alt='Reinstall App Store On My Iphone' title='Reinstall App Store On My Iphone' />Phone apps to continue their installation or update process. Note Since the i. Phone, i. Pod, and i. Pad all use the same i. OS operating system, these solutions will also work for waiting i. Pad and i. Pod apps. Back to top. Waiting i. Phone app solution Reboot your i. Phone i. Pad, or i. PodThe most popular solution Ive seen and the most written about solution in the comments below for the waiting i. Phone app problem is to reboot your i. Phone. Here are some consolidated notes of comments about this waiting i. Phone apps solution The i. Phone reboot worked for meI had about 1. I pressed the Update apps button. Somehow the app update process got stuck until the next day. How to RemoveReinstall Stock Apps in iOS 10 on iPhone or iPad. Though you can remove builtin apps in iOS 10, you should think twice before deleting them for various. When reloading previously purchased applications on an iPhone, open the App Store app, tap Purchased, tap My Purchases, select Not On This iPhone, and scroll through. Today, I rebooted my i. Phone, and the i. Phone apps finished updating themselves. To reboot your i. Phone, hold the i. Phone Power button down for about five seconds, until the slide to power down appears then slide that slider over. Wait a minute or two, and then turn your i. Phone back on by pressing the i. Phone Power button until you see it come back on. After the reboot, the i. Phone app installationupdate process resumed, updating each app, one at a time. Hope this helps. Update, April 1. I just had this waiting problem myself with an i. Pad app, and rebooting my i. Pad solved the problem. When the i. Pad rebooted, I went to look at the app icon, which was on the second screen, and by the time I scrolled over to the second screen it was already in the Loading. Back to top. 2 Resume the i. Phone app download. This second solution to the i. Phone app waiting problem has also helped some i. Phone owners I simply resumed downloading the app that was loading. I had to guess at which app got stuck, based on the ones that were loaded and the one that was missing. I then went to the app store on the i. Phone, not on the PC and then started the downloadinstall process for the app I thought did not download correctly. Sure enough that fixed the problem. I have no idea, however, how to figure out which app is causing the problem. I simply guessed and got it right. So, looking at a specific example, lets assume there was a problem installing or updating the i. Phone Twitter app. In this case, youd follow these steps to fix this i. Phone app waiting problem Go to the App Store on your i. Phone. Find the Twitter app. Press the Free button. Press the Install button. The i. Phone Twitter app should be installedreinstalled. On newer i. Phones Im told that you can 3. D Touch to pause it and resume it, but I havent been able to test this yet. Back to top. 3 Sign outin to App Store. From one of the comments below, heres another possible solution to the i. Phone waiting app problem None of the above worked for me on an i. Pod Touch, but what did was Entered App Store on the Touch, signed out of my account at the bottom of one of the screens, e. Featured, returned to the Touch home screen, entered App Store again, signed in, waited. After a few minutes, when the activity indicator next to the wifi strength indicator, top left stopped, I went back to the home screen and the waiting app had gone. Many thanks to a commenter named Graham for this possible solution. Back to top. 4 Fix a waiting i. Phone app Use a different Wi. Fi network. Digging around the internet, Ive read several people say that this problem may be related to your Wi. Fi network and internet access. If so, there are a couple of possible ways around this. Access the internet with a physical cable instead of Wi. Fi. In this possible solution, if the Mac or PC you connect your i. Phone to has a direct cable connection to your internet provider the cable connects from the back of the computer to the box your internet access provider gave you, connect your i. Phone to your computer, and attempt to restart the waiting i. Phone app through the i. Tunes app interface. If this doesnt happen automatically, you can follow these steps Connect your i. Samsung Galaxy S3 Wifi Chipset Broadcom Virtual Wireless Adapter'>Samsung Galaxy S3 Wifi Chipset Broadcom Virtual Wireless Adapter. Phone or i. Pod to your Mac or PC. Wait until the i. Phonei. Pod appears in the i. Tunes DEVICES section. Click the Apps tab on the right side of i. Tunes. Click the Sync button on the bottom right of i. Tunes. b Use someone elses Wi. Fi network. If that solution doesnt work, see if you can borrow a friend or neighbors Wi. Fi service. Take your i. Phonei. Pod over to their home, log into their network, and see if you can get the download to resume. If this doesnt work immediately, also try rebooting your i. Phone while at their home, and see if that restarts the process. Also, if you cant get internet access this way, try the free Wi. Fi at a place like Starbucks, Mc. Donalds, or many other coffee shops. Back to topi. Phone waiting app solutions Summary. I hope one of these possible solutions to the i. Phone waiting apps problem will work for you. Best Usb Wireless Adapter For Hacking. As mentioned, because the i. Pod, i. Phone, and i. Pad now all use the Apple i. OS operating system, I assume these solutions will also work for i. Pod waiting apps and i. Pad waiting apps. If you know of any other potential solutions to this waiting i. Phone apps problem, please leave a comment below. How to Reinstall Older Versions of Apps on your i. Phone or i. Pad. It doesnt happen often, but there may be times when you really want to downgrade to the previous version of an i. OS app or even older. For example, you just downloaded the latest update of your favorite app to your i. Phone, but the new version crashes hard and often and the old version is no longer available in the App Store. Maybe its a really buggy version or maybe the new version doesnt like your spiffy brand new i. Phone. Are you out of luck until the fix is released Maybe not. Here are four ways that you can try to downgrade back to a previous version of an app, including a very detailed way to access a back door to older apps in the App Store. These methods are not foolproof, but theyll give you a chance at restoring a version of the app that will work on your device. Use Time Machine or another backup to restore previous versions of an app. You are backing your computer up, right If so, the easiest way to reinstall a previous version of an i. OS app is to restore it from Time machine or other backup. In Time Machine for Mac OS, navigate back to the date of the last good version of the app you want to restore. In Time machine, navigate to User Music i. Tunes Mobile Applications. Select and restore the app. Drag and drop the older version from your backup into your i. Tunes My Apps section. Replace to revert back to the older working version. Restore the app on your i. Phone using i. Tunes. This method works if you regularly back up your i. Phone or i. Pad to your computer using i. Tunes, but it only works if you havent updated your i. Tunes copy of the app. If your i. Tunes library has also been updated, youll need to try another method or wait until the developer releases a fix. If you downloaded a broken app update to your i. Phone, do not update apps in i. Tunes yet. Youll be using the old copy of the app thats still stored in your i. Tunes library. Delete the app on your i. Phone by pressing the apps icon for several seconds. The apps will start to jiggle and a small X will appear in the upper lefthand corner. Press the X of the app you want to delete. Press the home button after the app is gone from the screen to stop the jiggling and get out of delete mode. Then, connect your i. Phone to your computer. Open i. Tunes and select your device. Do not sync at this time. Click the Applications tab. Select Apps in the i. Tunes sidebar. Find the app you want reinstall in i. Tunes Apps list. Select the option to Install and sync your device. The version you have backed up in i. Tunes will copy back to your i. Phone. Hopefully, itll be the older version. If an app is broken, its probably not a good idea to Update All on your computer or your i. Phone until you know its been fixed. You can update all of your other apps one at a time. WARNING Many photo apps such as Camera, VSCO, Fi. LMi. C Pro, Pixelmator and others have lightboxes their own private photo library that require you to then take additional steps to save images to your i. Phones camera roll. These lightboxes contain images that are saved nowhere else on your i. Phone or i. Pad camera roll, photo library, Photo. Stream nowhere. Once these apps are deleted, the images contained in their lightboxes are deleted as well and cannot otherwise be easily restored. Make sure to back up your important images often to your camera roll. While a lightbox workflow is convenient, storing photos on your i. Phones camera roll is a safer place for them. Look for the app in the Trash. If you have a Mac, just look in the Trash. Tunes throws all previous versions in there after it updates. Retrieve the app from trash. In i. Tunes, select the Apps button. Delete the new version from My Apps in i. Tunes. Drag drop the previous version into your My Apps section of i. Tunes. Select the option to Install and sync your device and youre golden. Previous versions of i. OS would also move old copies of updated apps to the trash when syncing. This no longer happens when updating apps on your i. Phone in i. OS 9. The newer versions on your device will now overwrite the older copy in your i. Tunes library. Previous versions of apps are still moved to the Trash when updating them in i. Tunes on your computer. Use Charles or Fiddler apps to download older versions of i. OS apps from the App Store. If you really need to go back to a previous version of an app and the previous two methods didnt work for you, there are a couple of third party apps for Mac OS and Windows which will let you redownload any previous version of an i. OS app. Youll first need to download, install and launch Charles proxy app for Mac OS or Fiddler for Windows. Over on i. Download. Blog, Jeff Benjamin details the process of restoring old i. OS apps on Mac OS and includes a video. Over on Medium, Kenny Yin does the same for Windows machines. On either platform, the process is long and detailed. I havent tried this myself, but it looks pretty straightforward. Be sure to create a good backup of your i. Phone or i. Pad before your start in case you have to restore your device if things go south. Also, see my warning above about lightboxes before you proceed. Your mileage may vary for any or all of these methods. Understand before you attempt any of these that there is a chance that you will lose some data, especially if you are trying to downgrade an app that stores its data, photos, etc. Were not responsible if that happens. Good luck Let us know how you did in the comments below. MThis is a retooled update of our classic article, originally posted on 22. Sources and big thanks to Pat Timney, Cult of Mac, Jeff Benjamin and i. Downloadblog, Kenny Yin.