[AFMUG] replacement iPhones go forever downloading apps

[Ken Hohhof]

I've had several complaints that customers will replace their iPhones 
(sometimes the whole family at once) and the new phones will just go forever 
trying to download all their apps, meanwhile their Internet is slow and they 
can't do mission critical things like watch Netflix.

People will then say they took their new phones to work and the apps 
finished downloading within an hour.

Is this a common problem and is it just that the phones are downloading so 
many gigabytes that you need a superfast Internet connection for it to 
finish within a reasonable time?

Is there some trick (other than telling people not to sync their new phones 
on Sunday evening) to making this work right?