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The unattended updates just mean you don’t have to sit through and manually click the second install popup for every update. They come in handy even when F-Droid doesn’t have automatic updates enabled.
On Android 12 or later, apps will be autoupdated after the first install or first update
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don’t have to sit through and manually click the second install popup
I have F-Droid on two Android 10 devices, neither of them rooted… on one of them I have to click on the second popup, on the other I also have to click “Install” for each app first. What’s up with that?
That’s specifically referring to when auto updates are enabled; on newer Android versions app stores can now update apps they’ve installed without needing the manual confirmation popup. Previously autoupdates would need a separate shim installed via root, since only system applications could perform unattended installation.
I’m not sure what would cause the difference, but the old behaviour (at least on my device) was to only do the download when updating all, with each individual app needing to then click the update button and the popup. With F-Droid Basic (which had this change for a while now), any apps it can update do so automatically when the update all button is pressed. Apps that it can’t do unattended updates on, such as those that were installed by another app, still required manual update on the first one.
I’m a capable troubleshooter. I’ll take 5 minutes of troubleshooting once or twice a year to save a cumulative few hours opening an app store to manually check for and install updates. I’m glad they’re giving options to both of us!
Which is an apt description.
I’m not a fan of auto updates. Good way for things to break with no idea why, then having to t-shoot your way back to functional.
My time is more valuable than that.
The unattended updates just mean you don’t have to sit through and manually click the second install popup for every update. They come in handy even when F-Droid doesn’t have automatic updates enabled.
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BTW…
I have F-Droid on two Android 10 devices, neither of them rooted… on one of them I have to click on the second popup, on the other I also have to click “Install” for each app first. What’s up with that?
That’s specifically referring to when auto updates are enabled; on newer Android versions app stores can now update apps they’ve installed without needing the manual confirmation popup. Previously autoupdates would need a separate shim installed via root, since only system applications could perform unattended installation.
I’m not sure what would cause the difference, but the old behaviour (at least on my device) was to only do the download when updating all, with each individual app needing to then click the update button and the popup. With F-Droid Basic (which had this change for a while now), any apps it can update do so automatically when the update all button is pressed. Apps that it can’t do unattended updates on, such as those that were installed by another app, still required manual update on the first one.
I’m a capable troubleshooter. I’ll take 5 minutes of troubleshooting once or twice a year to save a cumulative few hours opening an app store to manually check for and install updates. I’m glad they’re giving options to both of us!