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Mac App installations stuck on "installing"

  • July 15, 2026
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Anyone else having this issue?

Jamf School’s app installers don’t seem to be installing apps onto my Macs properly. I have a list of apps in a device group that is sourced in the app installers - and upon a Mac joining said device group the apps stay stuck on “Installing” and they stay that way indefinitely. When I click on the stalled app to “Retry app stuck on installing” and refresh, the installation fails and I have to retry or it says “App installation timed out. Try again.”. This is really slowing down my zero-touch deployment process.

 

 

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AscentAdam
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  • July 29, 2026

I seem to be having similar issues with Jamf lately specifically with our in house apps built in composer. They seem to install seamlessly on older versions of macos but it appears a recent update may have effected them. I cant even get the files to populate on the macs. We have also had issues with installing some applications that are in VPP Logic Pro seems to give us repeated issues with our computer lab.


bweeks
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  • August 3, 2026

It looks like I maybe running into the same issue on iMacs running the latest version of Tahoe. Infinitely stuck on installing. 

 


ShawnNeal
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  • August 3, 2026

Seems to be an issue with macOS 26.6