Lately, my SE3 has been acting strangely - no one thing, but lots of little random odd behaviors that add up, beyond the usual maintenance. I’ve found on previous phones that a “Nuke n pave” fixes it right up. So I did the same today and good grief is it taking a long time to reload all the apps. I don’t have that many - less than 4 screens worth, with only a few “folders” of related apps, so well under 100 including all the built in stuff. I’m heading into 3 hours of reloading now and it is maybe 25% done. Yes, wifi is strong, the connection is solid, the internet here is fast. I’m quite sure it never took this long before - nowhere near this long. Has it reached it’s planned obsolescence date? My wife maintains the finances around here and even she has already said to just go get a new phone, but I can’t give in that easily - I love me some touch ID, and this is the last phone with it. Any ideas?
If you’re on an older iOS (not 18), it may be that not many people are downloading those apps so some are having to be repackaged, but 3 hours for 25% seems a long time.
I’d suggest that your Wifi on your phone is malfunctioning and if you were seeing strange behaviour before your reset, maybe pause all other downloads and download speedtest.net or any other speed test app and compare your expected download and upload speeds with those your phone is achieving.
If the speeds you see are well below your expectations it may be a hardware Wifi issue.
I had to play a bit of whack-a-mole to get the speedtest to download, but I finally got it working. The phone is on 18.5 and speeds are 422 down / 297 up. Not as fast as I’ve ever seen but still plenty fast. One strange thing I noticed is that there are 20 apps at a time showing the “loading” notice. That seems to imply it’s splitting the bandwidth 20 ways at once. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. ¯_( ツ)_/¯
I had a similar problems some years ago and, as I recall, I was able to stop and restart the downloading apps by tapping on them. I don’t know if stopping some of them and restarting them later would speed things up. But you could try just one to see if I remember correctly.
Yeah I tried that too - every time I paused one, another would start up. It was strange but every app did the same: the “progress wheel” for each one would spin up to maybe 25-50% then just freeze. And not for just a moment - I’d watch it for a wasteful amount of time for nothing. The old watched pot never boils adage, I guess.
I ended up leaving the phone on my desk for the rest of the day and went about my business (I know, shocking) and at some point much later in the evening it had appeared to be completed. I can’t say how long it took but regardless it seemed much longer than it should have. It’s events like these that can understandably cause the mind to wander towards the whole “planned obsolescence” idea.
That being said, I’m wondering about my real motivation for wanting to get a bigger phone now. “But It’s easier for my aging eyes to read!”