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How to Find or Reinstall Your Missing Apps After Updating to iOS 6

Sep 21, 2012 09:23 PM

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For everyone who's having a problem downloading new apps in iOS 6, or are missing apps that didn't transfer over from iTunes, here's a super quick solution.

If you have any apps that are currently stalled, you are going to want to stop and delete those and then just re-download them after the fix below.

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Image Credit wired.com

This seems to be more of a problem for older devices like the iPhone 4 and iPad 2, but it should work for newer devices nonetheless.

Sign out of your Apple Account.
Eject your iPhone and Quit iTunes.
Go to Settings > General > Reset and Reset Network settings.
Restart your iPhone (hold the Sleep button and Home button).
Log back into your iTunes account and start your downloads again.

Boom, pow, done.

Photos by TheVerge, Wired

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