How to stop app store from trying to download

Go to the Settings app, tap on your name, then choose Family Sharing. From there, tap on your name again and select Leave Family. Select Apple ID at the top of the screen. A pop-up will appear as shown in the image below, tap View Apple ID. This tutorial will detail how to stop a download from the App Store in iOS. The stop trick works to cancel the download of any app in any version of iOS, it works the same on all iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices too.

Similarly, if you just want to pause the download instead, just tap on the icon while the download progress bar is active. You can resume a paused App Store app download by then re-tapping it, that will begin the download again. And yes you can use this to also pause app updates in iOS , as well as any other download from the App Store. Neither stopping and deleting or pausing and resuming removes the app from your purchase history though, meaning you can redownload it again at any point for free either on the same iOS device or a different one attached to the same Apple ID without purchasing again , the same way you would with an accidentally deleted app.

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How to do I cancel this download? Posted on Oct 6, AM. If there are multiple apps trying to download at once, only one can download at a time and the rest say "Waiting" until it is then their turn. Try this. Double tap the icon of the Waiting app, and it should resume the download.

Oct 6, AM.