How to disable automatic software updates on your Android smartphone: A detailed guide

jcbose · 发表于 2019-04-24 23:11:05

Here's how to you can disable the auto update of apps from the Google Play Store to save mobile data and system storage space. Here's the step by step guide. [br][br][br]

[br][br]Modern-day apps smartphone apps are extremely data hungry and require bandwidth not only for functioning properly but also for staying updated to the most recent builds. While most of these apps are small in size and do not require much data or time to stay updated, some apps can run into GBs when their updates are uploaded on Google Play. [br][br]Google for its part also encourages developers to update their apps as frequently as possible so that their general -- and security performance -- can be improved over time. While in theory it only helps the end user, the reality is that because of these apps updating automatically by default -- and that too silently in the background most times -- this update process can often wear your phone down and leave a dent in your wallet because of increased data usage bills. [br][br]If these issues concern you, you've come to the right place. We'll show you how to disable the auto update of apps from the Google Play Store. Here's a step by step guide. [br][br]1. Fire up the Google Play Store app and tap on the 3-bar menu icon on the top left of the search bar.[br][br]2. Then click on the Settings button.[br][br]2. Inside the Settings menu tap Auto-update apps.[br][br]3. There you'll see three options: Do not auto-update apps, Auto-update apps over any network (using your data) and Auto-update apps over Wi-Fi only.[br][br]4. Depending on your preference choose Do not auto-update apps if you want to manually update apps by searching for them. Another good option is Over Wi-Fi only. With this option on apps will update automatically over Wi-Fi. While this will help with saving mobile data, it will, however, not help you save storage on the device. [br][br]Disable for specific apps[br][br]While these steps should help general users, there will be use cases where the problem posed would be from one or two apps. If that's the case with you, then head over to the 3-bar menu icon, click on My apps & games, from there search for the particular app and after that simply click on the 3 dot icon on the right hand side of the page.[br][br]After you do this, you'll be greeted with a new menu from where users can simply uncheck auto-update for that particular app. [br][br]Source :timesnownews.com