Apps not downloading on iphone x after restore

After reviewing a number of things I had done, we did a hard reset. Sound up, sound down then hold the power switch until the white Apple shows. Still didn't change anything. When I clicked the cloud icon, it started downloading. After two deletes, I just tapped on the blue cloud and it started to download. It appears it will only do one app at at time this way.

You can select 2, but they download one by one. At this point, I went to the home screen touched a darkened app and it started downloading. You can touch more than one but the download one ofter the other. You still have to reenter passwords and ID.

Page content loaded. I was having the same issue. None of my apps were finished downloading and my phone would not lock. None of my apps would open nor would my control center come up. I spent the day speaking to different apple representatives and none of us could figure out what to do.

After many different attempts, I knew from the start that all I had to do was to get it to turn off but it wouldn't force restart nor go into safe mode or anything. I even tried connecting it to my MacBook Air to restore it again or update it and it wouldn't work.

Until, well I'm not sure if all iPhone's do this but if you click the lock button three times, AssistiveTouch comes up. So my assumption is that maybe the restore process just never finished, I really don't know but hey it works now! Nov 20, PM. Sorry for the poor grammar and typos in my original post. Getting used to the X. Not that that is an excuse for grammar. I was unable to edit my original post. Here is a cleaner version. Anyways, the Restore gets stuck trying to download apps that are dead and missing from the App Store or that are incompatible with iOS You can tap on these and pause the download.

Hide these by swiping left. Hide all those with a greyed out iCloud. While you are at it, hide any garbage you no longer want either. Back on your home screen, delete any apps that are in the loading phase.

Once you do this you can selectively get back on track by picking and choosing the apps you want in the App Store. As others have noted, this completely obliterated the advantage of restoring from iCloud. You will absolutely lose app layout. Okay after hours and hours messing around with this, I tried to do a restore from a local backup of my old phone.

That in itself was a bit of an ordeal because of the inability to relocate where backups are stored. Anyway, restoring from a local backup saved downloading GB photo library. But the app downloading issue persists -- why apps aren't simply restored from a backup I don't know. Nov 25, PM. When I set up the new iphonex, The apps hung up for a while.

Prioritise the download From the Home screen, touch and hold the app. Restart your device Restart your iPhone or restart your iPad. Then check if you can download or update apps. Published Date: October 13, Yes No. Character limit: Then, iCloud pushes your updated Calendar and Contact data to your device, overwriting the old data. This update happens automatically and usually occurs before you notice the old data. Since your Mail already lives in iCloud, it isn't included in iCloud Backup.

After you restore from iCloud Backup, iCloud and your other email providers replace your available email messages so you can pick up where you left off. If you set up your device to store Notes in iCloud, iCloud sends those notes to your device after the restore process finishes. To find storage options for Notes in iOS Notes data stored by a third-party service like Microsoft Exchange isn't backed up to iCloud. Contact the provider of that service for information about how to retrieve your data.

After you restore your device from iCloud Backup, stay connected to Wi-Fi so that your text messages and voice recordings can download. If you turn off Messages in iCloud, your text messages and attachments no longer upload automatically, but they save in your next iCloud Backup and download in the background when you restore. The time it takes to restore depends on the size of your backup and the speed of your Wi-Fi. For example, if you use an iPad backup to restore an iPhone, your Messages and Voice Memos may not appear on the iPhone.

If your information is still missing after you restore, you can try to restore from a different backup in iCloud or on your computer.

You might need to have a payment method on file, even if the app that you want to download is free. See what payment method you have on file and make sure that it isn't expired, declined, or failed.

Contact Apple Support for assistance. From the Home Screen, touch and hold the app. From the menu that appears, choose Prioritize Download. Restart your iPhone or restart your iPad.