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From: Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why don't apps update without my telling them to?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:47:54 +0100
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In article <Fn-dnffQs5x8Tfv7nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid says...
> 
>  > micky wrote:
>  > AFaIK, I never interfere with apps updating. Whenever a screen
> shows up
>  > for some reaos, I update everything, even apps I don't use. 
>  > 
>  > I've done nothing to stop any app from updating. 
>  > 
>  > Yet friequently it's necessary for me to go to the ap; App to find
> an
>  > app, because looking for the icon often seems not to work. I just
> can't
>  > find it.  And often when I'm threre, it tells me there an update
>  > available.  Why?  
>  > 
>  > Am I just gettting there in the short window between when the
> update is
>  > available and when Android tries to do it without my asking, or is
> there
>  > a  set of apps that wait for me to use them, or at least notice
> them,
>  > before wanting to update, 
>  > 
>  > Today it was Alexa.  Sorry, I don't remember the
> others.
> 
> Apps do not update because they do not need to update.
> If Apps updated automatically they could possible stop functioning
> because of a variety of reasons. Android literally could use Apps from
> 4.0 era. Which is a good thing. Updating does not mean 
> better. Do I want automatic updating? No. It screws up things in my
> desktop and does the same with my phone.
>  
> 
> This is a response to the post seen at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=666971487#666971487

FWIW mine update without asking.

-- 
Jim the Geordie