Check Download Progress on the Mac App Store
Outside of watching the little progress bar on the downloading apps icon in LaunchPad or the Dock, there isn’t much of an outward display of how downloads are progressing from the App Store. Instead, more specific information is contained within the Mac App Store app itself, and here’s how to see it:
From the Mac App Store… click on the “Purchases” tab and find the app(s) you are downloading. This will show you the download progress and time remaining until completion.
This is the same in Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.6. Somewhat disappointingly, it doesn’t show you the actual download speed but you can always obtain that information elsewhere manually.
What About Download Speeds? You can check the download speed through the Mac App Store, this is done by clicking on the progress bar. Thanks for the tip Henry!
I’ve always wondered why they didn’t list mbps/kbps as well but I think it’s just Apple keeping it simple, that data means nothing to the average user.
You can check the download speed, just click the below the progress bar where the size and time remaining appears and presto!!!
The same applies to iTunes.
I did not know either of these tips, thank you
I’ve tried clicking everywhere (the bar, the time, the size) and nothing happens.
Here is me clicking and double clicking pretty much everywhere: http://localhostr.com/file/I1KBsCV/Screen%20Recording.mov
Has anyone actually tried this? Can you post a screenshot? Where exactly should we click? The comment says below the progress bar and the article says on the progress bar som I’m guessing you didn’t actually try it before editing the article?
Haha, same happening to me, with exact same download, Xcode, isn’t it?
hahahah you’re right i’m downloading Xcode as well
it dosn’t work for me
i have also tried clicking everywhere with no sucess
This does NOT work at all … it’s a very bad tip cus it isn’t working … I use my dashboards app iStat to get an idea and see that it just STOPS downloading … CRAPPY APPSTORE !!!!
It does work. Downloading Xcode right now…
Doesn’t works! Post a screenshot to make us believe.
It do not work for me either!!.
Clicking anywhere in the progress bar, below, end etc and nothing happen.
I’m downloading it as a torrent, which turns out a lot faster than the app store and no problems with a progress bar.
Thanks… i’m new to Mac and I’m downloading 2gb file…. wasn’t sure if it was downloading or hanging there … watching the bar… so this helped a lot!
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I think you guys to better when it comes to the download time. Please try a little harder.
i tried clicking everywhere while downloading Xcode in the mac app store but doesn’t show download speed.