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Delay or abort updates?

crossmr

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I don't want to disable automatic updates, so please don't offer that as a solution.
I'd like to keep my apps automatically updated, but I'd also like the ability to sometimes delay or pause those updates.

Most of the time it's fine, but I don't know about you guys, my phone (galaxy S3) will sometimes seriously chug when it gets slammed with a bunch of updates. It's almost inevitable that sometime when I'm in a hurry to translate something, or look up directions because of some issue when I absolutely need my phone that second Android will have decided that's the moment it needs to automatically update 15 apps and cause massive lag on my phone to the point that it's nearly unusable. The screen lag often causing me to miss tap things and just making a mess out of it.

Why oh why isn't there an obvious way to delay updates? you should be able to long press the updating notification and choose something like "Delay for 1 hour" or something like that.
 
Automatic updates are just that, so without disabling them you can't delay them.
I turn them off however I do get a push message from Google telling me which as have updates and then I can either ignore it or open the play store to update the apps in question.
If you disable automatic updates it would solve your problem and you won't miss updates because Google will still remind you that you have updates available.
 
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I realize that, but this is a phone and as I noted, they can sometimes cause it to chug and a phone is something you might need at a moments notice. Even windows updates with has automatic updates will generally require you input before continuing with something that will interrupt you (the reboot stage). Am I the only one whose ever had their phone become momentarily unusable because of updates?
 
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Their is an option to hit "update all" and that's it, you don't have to do anything else.

I don't want to disable automatic updates, so please don't offer that as a solution.

I guess I should have put it in bold and increased the font.

there are apps I don't want to update as recent versions have done horrible things to them.
 
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I guess I should have put it in bold and increased the font.

there are apps I don't want to update as recent versions have done horrible things to them.

Their's no way to pick and choose with auto update turned on. Best that can be done is to get reminders that their are updates available and then go in and choose the apps you want to update.
 
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I guess I should have put it in bold and increased the font.

there are apps I don't want to update as recent versions have done horrible things to them.


You could have said it in the first place.

You can tell it to only update over wifi if you think that will help your problem, but you CANNOT pick and choose which apps you want to auto update.
 
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I'm sorry, but wanting to have auto-updates on but then wanting to pick and choose what and/or when these updates get installed makes no sense in the real world. The only way to accomplish what you want is to have the auto-update process read your mind to check that it'll be OK to carry on ..... :)

As has been suggested put it on 'wifi only' or, especially as you state quite clearly that some updates ruin the app for you, put it on manual.

Dave
 
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You could have said it in the first place.

You can tell it to only update over wifi if you think that will help your problem, but you CANNOT pick and choose which apps you want to auto update.

Actually, you CAN choose which apps to auto-update! Open the App in the Play Store, tap the 3 stacked dots in the top right and uncheck the auto update box.
 

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Yeah I see that option under the app is self. But on my play store app it is only a short cut to the settings auto update for all apps.
Mine too.
I started with main Play settings - "do not auto-update"
Went to an app page on playstore and checked auto-update.
When back to main Play settings and it now says "auto-update on wifi only".
So it is not an individual app setting for Play. It is a global setting for Play.
 
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When I disable auto update then enable auto update for one app it pops up and tells me it's going to re enable auto updates globally though may only enable them for that app. If I uncheck a single app, only that app is disabled.
Good point - I verified that behavior as well.

So you can set the entire global Play to auto-update and pick the specific apps (exceptions) that you don't want to auto-update.

But you can't set the entire global play to not-auto-update and pick the specific apps (exceptions) that you do want to auto-update.

The first option might work ok for me.
 
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