This app could not be downloaded at this time

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Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Daniel Daniel 89 3 3 bronze badges. Try connecting to a VPN and then retry downloading or updating. I was having trouble updating an app. It would appear to work, then failed with this message: I had tried many of the suggestions found here, as well as on discussions.

VPN seems to have solved my problem too. This worked for me. Was unable to download app updates on my work's wifi network. Tried a hard reboot, forgetting the wifi network, nada. Here's one I found on apple. Jadon Jadon 31 1 1 bronze badge.

Repeated hard and soft reboots didn't fix the problem. Turning airplane mode on and back off seems to have fixed it. Also of note, after doing this I got a popup saying there were new iTunes Terms and Conditions I needed to agree to I suspect this toggling somehow got my phone out of a funk so it could actually prompt me to do that. Worked for me. But need to know why does it happen? New posts. Log in. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.

Error "could not be downloaded at this time". Thread starter Jorg Start date May 9, Jorg New member. Joined Feb 14, Messages 3 Reaction score 0 Points 1. I was wondering if someone could help me with this: It started a few weeks ago that on both my iPhone and iPad I have problems downloading and updating apps. I keep getting the error message "could not be downloaded at this time" with the options "done" or "retry".

It doesnt happen all the time but it happens a lot. At first I thought it was the internet connection in the house but the same thing happens when I'm connected to the wifi at work or to the wifi at friends houses. I restarted my iPhone 4 times once and then it finally worked.

I cant do this all the time though. Is there a fix? Its just strange that it happens on both iPhone and iPad. All other internet services work fine on both devices. Chances are you are in the wrong iTunes store. But the regular version always give me the "Unable to Download Application" error. I'm not changing the code at all between the two builds. I do a "clean" in between builds. And there are a few differences in resource files associated with the two targets.

This used to never happen, but this issue has been consistent across every time I've built with this current version.

While it was installing I saw that the provisioning profile didn't agree with the iCloud ubiquitous key-value store entitlement. We're enabling iCloud with this release. I went in and "edited" each provisioning profile essentially doing nothing Kind of annoying that Apple doesn't invalidate your provisioning profile or let you know it needs updating at least I was battling with this same issue and this question is 2nd on google.

The error basically means that there is a reason that the app cannot be installed. There are lots of different reasons this could be the case. The only way to find out is to look at the console while the app installs and a more useful error message will appear there. If you have access to the machine you can use the organiser window in Xcode to see the console for an attached device. If you don't have access to the machine get the user to install the iPhone Configuration Utility.

There are both Windows and Mac versions available to download from Apple. They can then see the console and email the output to you. In my case I was using Testflight to install development builds. I thought there must be some provisioning issue and tried loads of different things. In the end when I saw the console output it was obvious that we were trying to install an iOS 6 app on an iOS 5 device. On the left row, there are this scheme settings, where i had to click "Archive" and change the "Build Configuration" to "Debug".

Check that the application bundle ID in the Info. I just had just problem, it seems testflight is down. It was not showing in the system status from the beginning but they updated it to reflect the period I experienced the problem.

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