I can confirm that for the first time in over a week that I’m able to update apps again; it takes a few attempts but it does at least eventually work now. Thanks to everyone who helped bring this issue to Apple’s attention. And thank you to Apple for resolving this—sluggish as the resolution may have been.
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iPhone [MERGED] iOS 13 - app updates stuck on "Waiting"
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Speaking of offloading apps, is there a way to disable offloading now that this nightmare is over? I don't seem to see any option to turn offloading off. On my phone I don't think it'll ever kick in since I have 256GB and I'm only using 50-ish. But space is lower on my iPad so I could see that kicking in once space get tighter.
Okay. It took a *lot* of tapping the Update button, but I managed to get every single pending app update, updated!
Pressing Update All didn’t work for me, so I had to do this one app at a time, but whatever, my apps are updated.
After I updated them all, I rebooted the phone to make sure they were updated and they are!
#AppleUpdateFail seems to be on the way out!
Pressing Update All didn’t work for me, so I had to do this one app at a time, but whatever, my apps are updated.
After I updated them all, I rebooted the phone to make sure they were updated and they are!
#AppleUpdateFail seems to be on the way out!
I just woke up my old iPhone 6 which had 180 apps pending update, and just hit update all and it's working, so you might just try update all now and see if it works.
Update All to 73 apps worked. Fantastic.
Edit: nope. Looked like it but it still needs updates one by one.
Edit: nope. Looked like it but it still needs updates one by one.
Update all is mostly working. Of 35 remaining updates on my iPad, it updated 33 of them. I had to retry for the remaining 2.
I already updated my iPhone and iPad.
So like in August it just started working after about a week. I guess we’re good till next time (I really hope there is no next time).
If you don’t want to offload apps automatically you can turn that off in the iTunes and App Store settings.
There’s no way to completely disable the ability to offload apps, but it’s nearly impossible to do accidentally.
I already updated my iPhone and iPad.
So like in August it just started working after about a week. I guess we’re good till next time (I really hope there is no next time).
If you don’t want to offload apps automatically you can turn that off in the iTunes and App Store settings.
There’s no way to completely disable the ability to offload apps, but it’s nearly impossible to do accidentally.
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Tried updating tonight and... it worked. First time since this entire ordeal began over a week ago. Every device, including my Mac and Apple TV all started working again.
FWIW, I had 2 calls with senior iTunes techs, and yesterday they grabbed a bunch of logs from my phone to send to engineering. I have not heard back from them tonight, but at least for now, it is working properly again.
If I do hear back, I’ll pass any info along.
FWIW, I had 2 calls with senior iTunes techs, and yesterday they grabbed a bunch of logs from my phone to send to engineering. I have not heard back from them tonight, but at least for now, it is working properly again.
If I do hear back, I’ll pass any info along.
Working for my iPad but not for my iPhone X. I still get the spinning and partial updates for a few apps, even with two reboots of my phone. Maybe I'll just leave it overnight and see if they magically update by tomorrow morning.
EDIT: Of course, just as I posted, the iPhone app update count began dropping, lol.
EDIT: Of course, just as I posted, the iPhone app update count began dropping, lol.
Finally able to update all of my apps. Hopefully it's a permanent fix that Apple has learned something from. It was fun hanging out with you guys! It's a shame that such unfortunate circumstances brought us together lol. But I'm grateful that I had you guys to relate to.
So it *WAS* an Apple side issue 
Update All working now and the numbers are dropping.
Way to go everyone! Lol
Update All working now and the numbers are dropping.
Way to go everyone! Lol
It's been fixed. Updated my iMac and my iPad.
See:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250852309?answerId=251662976022
See:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250852309?answerId=251662976022
