I bet most of our readers don't even remember the time when app updates were done manually by having to update them via App StoreIt's been more than a decade since Apple came with so-called automatic updates, thanks to which applications update themselves without you having to do anything. This has its indisputable advantages, but also one rather big disadvantage for me personally. Sometimes an application will alert you to what the developers have added to the new version and show you the news the next time you launch it, but these are rather exceptions. Most of the time, you won't find out about what the developers have changed until after you use the app and start using it more deeply.
We thought that if I had iPhone really few applications, i.e. around 30 applications, the ideal solution for me would be to switch to manual updates again, so that I know what each application brings new and we could, for example, start using the new functions of the given application. Of course, developers must, according to the rules, update their new versions of applications App Store to indicate what new features the update brings and they do. However, to notice this, you need to update the applications manually. That's why I tried it, but even though I really have 30 applications, we had to give up after a week.
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Every night, 5-10 updates appeared on my phone, and there are apps like Instagram that update almost every day. It's a shame there's no way to set it so that you App Store only notified about major updates and minor ones that are only related to stability and security were updated in the background. Unfortunately, keeping track of what's new in all the applications you use is theoretically possible, but in practice you will stop enjoying it as much as I do after a week. So I will continue to come across new updates basically randomly and I will firmly believe that the developers will mention updates that are truly major directly when the application is launched.
It's a shame how often the developers make a lot of noise about it... it's no coincidence that with many applications I can easily see, even with 10 updates in a row, that they added this and that same function.
It's more about the fact that it seems to me that the automatic updates don't work at all
Exactly. See one example in our family. Iphone for a person I see once every six months. I always have to manually update him.
Although I have automatic updates turned on, I always start them manually once every two months.
For example, I don't use automatic updates on my iPhone, because I don't have many applications there either, and I'm interested in the descriptions of the updates. It's just that when they sometimes only write Some Bug Fix or other videos with kittens, it doesn't have much explanatory value.
Rather, it wouldn't be bad if, for example, the applications were updated automatically, but some of them could be excluded because I want to solve it manually with them, for example because of the descriptions, because not every change has to suit me, or I'm waiting for some function and I'm interested when will come
Another reason why I have them turned off is saving money without such a damaged battery life, and mainly the fact that the automation really behaves a bit strangely.
Let's say that I Appstore It offers 16 updates. I refresh the page content and suddenly there are 23. I try again and there are 21.