For whatever reason, iOS has a tendency to suffer from stalled application updates when updating from the device. This behavior has been observed numerous times since the iOS 6 update was released. The observations have come by-way-of two 4th generation iPod touches with strong Wi-Fi connectivity. The issue is independent of software titles.
A few Internet searches have yielded some information about store problems, but the issues range from problems with song downloads to 5-year-old forum posts. The issue at hand here is straight software updates from the “Updates” tab of the App Store application.
Fortunately, the apparent solution is simple, and is likely by design. It’s just puzzling why no-one seems to be posting the fix. That is, unless it’s so simple that it goes without saying. At-any-rate, here it is. Browse the device to the application’s icon and just touch it as though launching the application. The label on the application should indicate that the update is continuing and the stalled progress bar on the icon should start moving again.
It’s convenient for Apple to have built-in a mechanism by which an update will gracefully pause itself if network availability goes away. It’s inconvenient of Apple to not have built-in a way for the App Store to know when network availability has been restored and to resume stalled downloads. The curious part is that while there are “paused” updates, other applications are able to be updated “willy nilly.” Yet, the paused applications stay paused indefinitely. This, combined with the fact that good Wi-Fi connectivity was available the whole time during these experiences leads to the conclusion that this is simply a bug with the App Store. Fortunately, the workaround described here works pretty well—so far.
A few Internet searches have yielded some information about store problems, but the issues range from problems with song downloads to 5-year-old forum posts. The issue at hand here is straight software updates from the “Updates” tab of the App Store application.
Fortunately, the apparent solution is simple, and is likely by design. It’s just puzzling why no-one seems to be posting the fix. That is, unless it’s so simple that it goes without saying. At-any-rate, here it is. Browse the device to the application’s icon and just touch it as though launching the application. The label on the application should indicate that the update is continuing and the stalled progress bar on the icon should start moving again.
It’s convenient for Apple to have built-in a mechanism by which an update will gracefully pause itself if network availability goes away. It’s inconvenient of Apple to not have built-in a way for the App Store to know when network availability has been restored and to resume stalled downloads. The curious part is that while there are “paused” updates, other applications are able to be updated “willy nilly.” Yet, the paused applications stay paused indefinitely. This, combined with the fact that good Wi-Fi connectivity was available the whole time during these experiences leads to the conclusion that this is simply a bug with the App Store. Fortunately, the workaround described here works pretty well—so far.
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