Why Play Store Download Get Pending?

Anamika Singh
4 min readMar 20, 2021

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We live in digital age and we are surrounded by technology, our day to day work is dependent on technologies. Mobile phone is one of those, mobile phones are part of our day to day life not a single day passes when we do not interact with it. one of the most important part of mobile phones are mobile application also known as apps , the relationship between mobile phone and apps are like human body and soul , As human body is nothing without soul in that very same way mobile phone are useless without different apps. If mobile phone are body then apps are like soul of that body. When you buy a mobile some apps are already installed in it and some you have to download.

There are nearly billions of apps of different category are there we could keep trying a new app every day for our entire lifetime. You can download these apps according to your requirement some of them are free of cost and some of them are paid. You can download it from google play store.

While downloading apps some time we get an error name Download pending error. It is one of the most common error generally when you try to download or update an application you will face this error. In this app when you try to download any app instead of downloading that app google play store stuck on downloading pending there could be many reasons for this error.

Google Play Store app May not currently set to have unrestricted data access in the background. This doesn’t necessarily mean that downloads won’t be occurring in the background, but in some cases it can cause unexpected holdups. Let us have a view on those reasons and how to solve those.

Reasons and how to solve

Low internet speed — Google play store recommend downloading apps form a hi-speed WiFi connection but generally we all download these apps using mobile data whose speed is relatively slower and that may be one of the reason for getting this error, best way to resolve this problem is to check your internet speed or to switch on any other network with hi-speed net connection.

Low storage — Downloading pending error may also cause due to low storage on you device most of the time you will get a notification that you are running out of storage ( if you device storage is low ) when you try to download a new app but sometimes it doesn’t . So if you are facing this pending download error in google play store check your device storage and if it is low delete some unnecessary data.

Play store Cache data and apps files — Cache is a component that stores data for future requests so that data can be served faster and Like any other apps the Play Store app stores its configurations and settings in temporary files on your device. This may and sometimes these files may be the reason of getting is pending download error, to solve this you can delete its cache data and apps files through your setting option.

Go to settings > apps & notifications > google play store > storage > clear data.

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Downloads Or Updates — sometimes the reason for getting download pending error is because you have many of them already running on your device or due to auto updating of apps are running in the background .to fix it you just need to do is disable those downloads and updates that you don’t urgently need. And download that app you actually want to install.

Go to play store > my apps & games > disable all downloading or stop all updates.

Google play store updates — Sometimes recent update of play store may be the reason for this error in case you are recently facing this download pending issue after a recent update then the update might be the culprit here, the good news is you can easily delete that update through you setting option and that should fix your problem .

Go to settings > apps & notification >google play store > tap on uninstall update.

System updates — Sometimes an update or security patch might be all that’s needed to solve this issue, just because you’re you system is no up to date and latest version of update is not installed you might be facing this issue to resolve this you can simply check for new system updates If an update pop ups, install it and hope for the best.

Go to settings> About > Software updates > Check now.

Some other solutions

Restart your mobile- Many of you might thing what is so technical about it and yes you are right but some time most easy solution is the one which is ignored if you do have a good internet connection and still facing this issue this should be your first step to do because most of the time most easy one is most effective.

Change your Google account -One other methods that might help you avoid the download pending error is by switching the Google account associated with the Play Store, through your setting option.

Go to settings> Accounts & sync > click on other google account.

These are the few ways to solve this VIPTools download pending issue hopefully it will help you to resolve your problem.

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Anamika Singh
Anamika Singh

Written by Anamika Singh

Tech blogger, and market data researcher

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