How To Fix IPad Or IPhone Apps Stuck Installing

If you’ve ever encountered an application that is stuck installing, it can be incredibly frustrating. Not only is that progress bar stuck for eternity, you also lose access to the app, while it’s waiting to be updated. There are assorted reasons for why this might happen, but more often than not, it’s due to storage issues. Your iOS device might have had sufficient storage space to install the apps, but now it’s bumping up against the capacity of your iPhone or iPad and refuses to update. Here are a few solutions on how to fix iPad or iPhone apps that are stuck installing. Using this process, you’ll remove the waiting to install status and revert to the older version of the app. Most importantly, you’ll regain access to the app without having to connect to a computer. This should put you back on the screen with the app attempting to load.

Tap on the icon. You’ll see a message ‘Unable to Download Item’ and that the app cannot be downloaded. That’s it. Now you can launch and use the app. If storage space prevented you from updating your apps, read on for how to keep all of your updates and get them updated. Tip: Upon doing this, you might have success just clicking on the individual app icons on your home screen, rather than having to launch the App Store. Another option that has been proven to work for some folks is to reboot your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Press and hold the power button. Select ‘Slide to power off’. Press power to restart your iOS device. If you apps start loading, this fix has worked. While we’ve been able to fix the issue with apps that are stuck loading, the solution above doesn’t update the apps. The best method to resolve this issue is to connect your iPhone or iPad to iTunes on your Mac or PC.