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.
It says:
On Android 12 or later, apps will be autoupdated after the first install or first update
BTW…
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!
it’s not yet the suggested version. Meaning that brave users need to install this manually for now
not production-/stable-live yet
Just tap the versions at the bottom of the page and tap 1.19.
Does this have to be enabled after updating to 1.19? I don’t see anything in Settings.
Quoting from another comment:
Nope, just install 1.19 and A-Apps that are installed should start working.
I am super glad to see this as I have been using the alphas to achieve this functionality for a while now and it works quite well.
That’s good to hear! Did you had to tweak any setting to get this working?
There’s another comment where someone wonders if there’s any setting to enable this.
Nope, just install 1.19 and A-Apps that are installed should start working.
