iPadOS forcing updates

[Jason Davies]

Hi Smuggers,

I noticed an app I use a lot was updated on my iPad Air yesterday and is
very crashy, I discovered today. Checked my Mini and that had
fortunately not updated so I turned off auto-updates for apps to tide me
over til the bugs are fixed.

An hour later, pick up the mini and it's auto-updated the app:(

The setting in Settings is still set to not update apps (or install
them). Am I missing something or is this just an annoying bug that lets
bugs in?

Cheers,

Jason

[Tony Crooks]

Not quite the same experience but I have downloaded an app to try on one device and then shortly afterwards deleted it, to find that it has automatically installed on other devices. 

This leads me to think that the 'auto' bit relates to one’s Apple ID account rather than specific devices. I was unable to find if this is how Apple sees it. The Apple support material is somewhat opaque on what happens automatically for the App Store, as it does when referring to 'Manual'. 

Tony

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[Jason Davies]

That setting seems to behave itself here; if I install AppX on device1, it will either magically download on Device2 or not, depending on whether that setting is checked, and that seems still to apply (unless they are busy right now grabbing apps I only want on one of them...)

But the one just under it, about installing updates, should surely do what it says, and turn on/off automatic updates of those apps, once they're downloaded.

Every now and then not being able to revert to an earlier version causes havoc! I understand the infrastructure to keep all versions would be a nightmare, but even if you backup a device and restore, it still gets the apps direct from the App store, so there is no way to avoid this.

I even tried turning off iCloud keychain so this device would not access the internet, seeing as you can't completely turn off wireless, but that threatened to remove it from all devices.

The walled garden feels a bit claustrophobic today!

cheers,
J

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Cheers,

Jason