Also keep in mind we are talking about restoring backups made to iTunes on a computer, not iCloud backup restores which can take a significant amount of time to complete on slower internet connections.
The following troubleshooting steps only apply to iTunes restores made to and from a computer directly to an iPhone over a USB connection.
I personally ran into this problem when restoring and setting up a new iPhone X via iTunes from a freshly made iPhone Plus backup. The first attempt to migrate and restore the iPhone X with the backup in iTunes gave a time remaining estimate of 8 hours which slowly grew to 20 hours.
After following the steps detailed above, I was able to fix the problem and get the entire backup restore process to complete in about an hour for a GB backup being restored to the new iPhone — a reasonable time given the giant backup size. After searching around a bit I realized a fair amount of other users are experiencing the same problem with iPhone X, iPhone 8, and many older iPhones too over time.
Have you had any similar issues restoring backups to an iPhone or iPad with iTunes? Share your experiences and troubleshooting steps in the comments below, and let us know if the tips above resolved the problem for you. Get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox with the OSXDaily newsletter. Thank you for this tip; my restore time reduced from 6 hours to about 2 hours for Gb.
To be fair, 2 hours for only Gb is still excessive. I did the steps you have intructed me to follow, but it didnt work, i tried 5 times in a row but othing, its always gets over 15hrs everytime i try to restore my phone. Thanks for your help here. Your instructions are confusion for restoring from iTunes. You say: 6. What exactly does that mean?
The steps are unclear. Are you saying I should delete all data on my phone first then it will tell me to restore to a clean phone?
Apple tells me to backup from iTunes, plug in the phone to the computer, then in iTunes select to restore. 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. Tapping them led to the download. The problem I have now is, I cannot download new apps from the App Store. Any thoughts? Nov 28, AM. Had the same issue. I followed James Mol post but nothing happened. After 2 days called Apple Support.
The problem for me was the restore was interrupted and stopped in the middle of the restore. This is what she told me to do and it worked. Stop Restoring iPhone 2. Avoid Unnecessary Backups 2. Delete Old Backups Part 3. Note Selecting this option will halt the restoration process.
You will not be getting contacts or other applications on the new iPhone. It is preferable to perform a factory reset and freshly reinstall the iOS operating system, including iOS Note Don't disconnect your iPhone when in the process. Note Please don't disconnect your device during the process and keep stably.
Francisco Spearman. Click to rate this post Generally rated 5 participated Rated successfully! If the restoring takes unusually longer time, there are must be some sort of error. Tuesday, December 18, What should you do when iPhone restore taking too long?
There are 4 stages to complete iPhone restore. Extract software Prepare iPhone for restore Verifying iPhone software Restoring iPhone firmware There is no fix time for how long it takes to restore an iPhone. It could take a few minutes to several hours to finish the restoring, depending on several factors: The amount of data on your iPhone.
If you have a lot of media files on the device, it usually takes longer to restore the iPhone. If there is a iOS update available for your device, iTunes needs more time to restore iPhone because it has to download the new iOS firmware. Internet speed. Faster network speed enables iTunes to connect to Apple server more quickly. Similar to restoring iPhone, restoring iPhone from backup could take a few minutes to several hours, depending on the two factors: The size of your backup. Network speed if you are restoring a backup from iCloud.
When restoring iCloud backup, iPhone need to download the backup from iCloud on stable network connection. Step 1 Download and install the FonePaw program on your computer.
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