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Apps don’t update automatically
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I’m a Product Manager for an iOS app, and sometime recently we learned that apps can have a phased rollout.
If an app decides to use phased rollout, it becomes MANUALLY available immediately, but AUTOMATIC downloads are spread out over 7 days (in case any issues crop up, the automatic updating can be frozen)
Took me a long time to figure this out, and now I’m in the habit of checking daily for updates!!
I do not think automatic updates has worked properly for a long time, across the board. I posted here about it probably 4-6 months ago. Hopefully it is something Apple fixes in its new found focus on quality and bug fixing in the next iOS release (which I am totally in support of and think is way past due).
Yes, I have always done update manually as I want to see which app is updated.
Hi,
I don’t think I have had issues with automatic updating.. my apps get updated when my phone is charging with wifi on.. but not otherwise, which I think is how it’s supposed to work.. I don’t know if they take a few days to get updated, but they do.
I don’t think I have had issues with automatic updating.. my apps get updated when my phone is charging with wifi on.. but not otherwise, which I think is how it’s supposed to work.. I don’t know if they take a few days to get updated, but they do.
I prefer to not update the app when I don’t need to. Plus I know what “they are up to” instead of just blindly swallow “whatever they throw at you” like iOS update. So I turn off automatic update quite a while ago. But back in iOS 9 era, automatic update worked well.
Auto update .... actually I have a couple of issues on this. my prior 7+, my IPP, my Mini4, my ex's 7, etc...
First, iOS will tell you that there are X updates available. You go into the App Store and look and you do. But, if you refresh the Update page, you may have more! And if you look at the list of recently updated, there may be several that did auto update.
WTF?
If I just leave it alone and let iOS with Auto-update on decide when and what to update, the list of updates grows slowly and the list of pending just keeps getting bigger. Doesn't matter what device, they all exhibit this behavior. To make it even better, the behavior is similar but not exact.
Just don't get it. As a result I now check daily. I guess you can call this the iOS Auto Manual Update.
First, iOS will tell you that there are X updates available. You go into the App Store and look and you do. But, if you refresh the Update page, you may have more! And if you look at the list of recently updated, there may be several that did auto update.
WTF?
If I just leave it alone and let iOS with Auto-update on decide when and what to update, the list of updates grows slowly and the list of pending just keeps getting bigger. Doesn't matter what device, they all exhibit this behavior. To make it even better, the behavior is similar but not exact.
Just don't get it. As a result I now check daily. I guess you can call this the iOS Auto Manual Update.
This isn’t a bad idea and I was of the same mindset for years however the release notes of rarely put the app in a bad light and obviously if there is a new bug they don’t even know about, not that they would put that in the release notes.
Only thing I miss is knowing about new features as soon as I download the app. I find myself reading back thru release notes on occasion.
I even went as far as setting my AppleTVs to automatically update tvOS since I would blindly do it day one anyway.
I had no idea this was possible but it makes perfect sense. I seem to have app update ocd (I hate the blue dots) so I check manually and then open/close the apps. Thanks for the info!
I've never had auto-update on, so I can't comment on its efficacy.
I don't use it because, like others, I'm interested in reading the patch notes, as small as some of them are. In the past, there have also been some apps that had to disable a certain feature, so I wouldn't want to update that app until I found a suitable replacement (this was largely in the era before YouTube Red when I was using different apps to download videos directly from YouTube and cache them on the device so I could watch them on the plane, etc).
I don't use it because, like others, I'm interested in reading the patch notes, as small as some of them are. In the past, there have also been some apps that had to disable a certain feature, so I wouldn't want to update that app until I found a suitable replacement (this was largely in the era before YouTube Red when I was using different apps to download videos directly from YouTube and cache them on the device so I could watch them on the plane, etc).
Auto update works for me when I charge my phone and it's connected to wifi.
However I still have the issue which has been going on since iOS 10 where I won't get the notification from the App Store after the apps have finished auto updating letting me know which apps have been updated.
However I still have the issue which has been going on since iOS 10 where I won't get the notification from the App Store after the apps have finished auto updating letting me know which apps have been updated.
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or that apps are ready for updating but no indicator until you refresh (manually) the app update screen.