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In general, smartphones from the iPhone range of the American manufacturer Apple have an option enabled by default that allows automatic updates of applications. This option is responsible for the applications to update automatically without asking for the user's consent, something that is especially annoying in the event that we want to have manual control of the versions of our applications. And in the case of iPhones launched more than two or three years ago, this option can also become the main responsible for crashes and performance problems that occur sporadically in the terminal.
This time we are going to explain step by step how to disable automatic application updates on an iPhone. The process is very simple, and the steps indicated below are based on the iOS operating system in its version of iOS 7.1.2, so if we use another version, the procedure may vary slightly.
How to disable automatic app updates on an iPhone
- We must first access the application settings of the iPhone where you want to disable automatic updates.
- Then we must click on the " iTunes Store and App Store " section, which is represented by the icon of a white letter " A " on a blue background.
- Later we must locate the section that appears under the name of " Automatic Downloads ", which contains the option that will allow us to completely disable automatic updates of the applications. This option appears under the name of " Updates ", so we try to locate it on the screen and go to the next point.
- Now we just have to click on the white button that appears on the right side of the " Updates " option, and once said button is deactivated (that is, the button's background changes from green to white). managed to disable automatic update on our iPhone.
By deactivating this option we will have completely disabled the automatic update of applications, so that the updates will not be downloaded through the WiFi connection or through the 3G / 4G data connection. In the event that what we want is to deactivate the automatic updates only for the moments in which we are using the data rate, the only thing that we will have to do is follow the previous procedure with the difference that, in the last step, we will have to press on the button that appears next to the option " Use mobile data". In the event that this option is already disabled, we do not need to follow any additional procedure since this means that our iPhone is already configured not to update applications through the data rate.
