IOS 8 apps get stuck inside the device
When trying to release a new update for one of my corporate iOS apps, I found that the OTA download was failing. This will give me the message "Want to install" xxx "and hitting" Install "will roughly get there. There is no indication that anything is happening. This is happening on my iPhone 6 and iPad that are running the latest version of iOS 8.
Launching devices in the iPhone configuration utility shows a list of installed applications, and one application that refuses to install has an Install button where everyone else has Uninstall. At the bottom of the screen, you will see the renamed package and the original package.
When I click Install, the iPhone Settings Utility is disabled.
I managed to get it to work using a workaround I found elsewhere on StackOverflow that requires renaming the Bundle App ID, but it still looks like pi $$ is a bad way to do it.
It looks like the app somehow got stuck in a suspended state, appeared in the app list but didn't appear on the iPhone screen, and also refuses to overwrite. My question is, is there a way to clear the old app from the iPhone memory and possibly restart it with the original bundle ID?
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Apple still hasn't fixed this correctly even in the most recent versions. There are several manifestations: the application is loaded, but the device does not exit the calling application, so you don't know if the application is loaded or not. If the app has never been on your device before, it usually loads. If it was there before and was deleted, it won't load. If a downloaded app is already running in the background or you are downloading an app, it often won't load because it doesn't want to replace the running app. I usually start the download and then immediately switch to the trampoline to watch it download. If I see a clock face on the app icon, I know it is loading. Changing the bundle is not very good, let alone giving no user feedback when clicking "Install"...
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As for updating the app from an in-app invitation.
This is an apple / ios8 issue. They do not exit the application after installation. If you quickly press the home button after clicking the install button. Sometimes you will get a successful download.
For future use, you might want to know how to use exit which will kill the application, but Apple warns against using exit due to poor user experience. But if apple doesn't provide a good user experience in the first place for this process, I think it warrants imho use.
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