My iphone is set to automatically download. i just made some purchases from my ipad and now my phone has the app and songs showing up, but it says waiting to download. what gives and how do i fix?

i have an iphone, imac and 2 ipod touches 5th generation. I just purchased some apps and songs on the ipad with hopes they would transfer to all the other devices. some of them did go to all devices while others did not. when i go to purchases on one of the ipods they show up as not purchaced (even though they may be on 2 of the other devices). my iphone has them there, but it says waiting to download. its been a day and they are still waiting to download. I've checked settings on all and they are set to automatically download and all devices share the same apple id. not sure what ive done wrong and have tried several things. hopefully i haven't confused you too much.

My problem was that Software Update didn't check for updates every day, and maybe never...
Finally I found that: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120824124203635
Basically all you have to do is open the Terminal and type:
     sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist ScheduleFrequency 1
The number, 1 in this case, means the frequency which Software Update is going to check for updates, so 1 means every day.
If this doesn't work you can try two things (or both, but in this order)
     - Go to /Library/Preferences/ and delete the file: com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist, then open Software Update... to create a new file, and go to System Preferences to configure it again. Finally open the Terminal and try the command at the beginning of this comment.
     - If Software Update continues without checking for updates every day, open the file: com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist and you will see a preference that is: ScheduleFrequency with the number 1 at its right and you will see that the type is String, copy the file to the Desktop (for example) and change the type String to Number, then drag the file in the Desktop into the Preferences folder and replace the first. It will work. (For this part you will need Xcode)

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