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On iOS, you can disable automatic app updates in the Settings.
by colejohnson66 7y ago
On iOS, you can disable automatic app updates in the Settings.
- autoexec 7y agoSome apps (like Signal) force you to upgrade or they eventually stop working. It's a terrible practice.
- josh2600 7y agoRight, because the alternative of having a broken user experience for a monotonically increasing set of your users isn’t terrible.
- autoexec 7y agoHow would letting people continue to use what's been working for them cause a "broken user experience"? Users should have to power to decide when and if to update. If their old version causes them technical problems or exposes them to security issues that is their business. Software can (and often should) offer auto-updates to make things easier for most users but it should respect a user's choice not to update. Especially when updates often introduce anti-features and/or disable existing features.
- judge2020 7y agoCan't speak for Signal but an app might reasonably require an update when the API also had a breaking change.