App update frozen

After receiving an update to an app on my iPhone, the update process is frozen with the app update showing half complete, but never finishing. How do I cancel the update?

What App is it that you are trying to update or is it the new iOS 7? If iOS 7 update is hanging please see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Regards,
Steve

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Safe no losses.
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Try and update apps using iTune. (See bottom right on picture attached)
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I can't believe that no one answered Eric D's querry! It has been over a year! Come on Apple iPad users, help us out.
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During an app update on my iPad, the update froze. I have tried a re-set, I've powered on and off, I've shut the app down, I've signed in and out of iTunes. Nothing helps, still frozen. I'd like to just delete the app, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this on the iPad. I cannot connect to a computer for the next two weeks, I'm iPad only for that time. Using iOS 6.0.1
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JS

Now I know how Homer Simpson feels.
DOH!
Lost my mind when I wrote the question, apparently. Thanks.

How can I unfreeze app updates?

How can I update frozen app updates

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.
How to Solve the Problem of An iPad App Download Stuck on “Waiting”
http://ipadacademy.com/2012/06/how-to-solve-the-problem-of-an-ipad-app-download- stuck-on-waiting
How To Get Rid Of Your iPad App Download Frozen Problem
http://www.sidelineapple.com/how-to-get-rid-of-your-ipad-app-download-frozen-pro blem-and-not-lose-years-of-your-life-video/
iTunes: How to resume interrupted iTunes Store downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1725
Another thing to try - Turn the iPad Off & then back ON.
If that doesn't work:
• Log out of your iTunes store account. Go to Settings > Store > Sign Out Then press the Home button.
• Then press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously and don't release them when it brings up the Turn Off screen; keep holding them until the Apple logo appears.
• After restart, the Waiting should be gone.
 Cheers, Tom

Two of my apps have frozen and are not installing

Two of my apps have frozen and keep saying installing but nothing is happening

I am still continuing to have this problem. Try the below actions see if they work for you, unfortunately they never worked for me.
Have you tried updating the apps in your iTunes library, then syncing your phone?
Are you connected to WiFi? If so, one simple thing to try is to turn WiFi off, wait about 30 seconds or so, then turn WiFi back on.
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The update icon showing #apps requiring updates will not function - blank frozen screen. Called Support but they could not fix. Went to Genius Bar and was told I was 5th person with same problem - Apple system problem. They reset my iPad and it functioned properly the rest of the day. Inconvenient as setting were lost and needed to be reset. Woke up this morning with 16 app updates showing - same problem reoccurred, blank frozen screen. My son had the same proble this morning as well. Anyone hear about this from Apple?

We only know what we have read here in the forum and what we read from any websites that might be talking about this. There have been hundreds of discusssions about the problem with no resolution yet.
You can update the apps using the purchased tab and it is a bit time consuming, but not as time consuming as having to reset all settings.
According to Fly150 in another discussion, this is a workaround - for the time being.
If you want to update the Apps while waiting for Apple to fix Updates:
1. Go to App Store
2. Select Purchased
3. Select All
4. Scroll down to find the Apps showing update
5. Select update on the Apps
This should update the Apps and get rid of the update count in App Store.
You can check this article out.
http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-app-store/ipad-blank-updates-page-is-a-known-issue-a pple-working-on-it/

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