Why do apps sit in "pending" and not download?

[Android Central Question]

I have an LGK20V and it downloaded apps fine before now, nothing, sits in Pending. didn't clear the cashe, but it still won't load apps. Any ideas.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Does this happen on both wi-fi and mobile data?

Try going to Settings>Apps>All, select Google Play Store, and Clear Cache/Clear Data, then Force Stop. Do the same for Download Manager. Now try again.

 

[Rukbat]

Even then, Play (the site, not the app) has a maximum number of apps it will download to one user at a time, the rest of them will be pending until a download has finished. So if you try to update a dozen apps at a time, there will be a lot of pending ones for a while. (I'm not sue, but I think the maximum number at one time is 2.)