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App updates, where are the details?

Nelviticus

Well-Known Member
Jul 10, 2010
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Herts, UK
I have most of my apps set to auto-update. However if an update requires new permissions, Android will pop up a notification so I can choose whether to update.

The problem is that the update page it takes you to just lists the permissions and unless you then search for the app in the store there's no way of looking at the 'normal' app page. On the normal page you can see the details section (often listing what's in the update) and the reviews (where helpful users often tell you whether an update's worth doing).

I'm sure it wasn't like that until recently. I'm sure that the notifications used to take you to the normal app page. Is this just me? Am I missing something? The crazy thing is that if you select 'update' it lists the permissions for you again anyway.
 

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