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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?
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!
keep reading that phrase as “unintended updates” …
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?
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!