How often do you update your apps? - eviltoast

How often do you update your apps on your devices?

me:

  • android: 2x per year, except some app needs an update to work
  • linux/manjaro: every few months, except security stuff (ik its a rolling release distro but I hate updating frequently)

A while ago I updated mostly directly after publish. But since more and more apps (primarily Google services, Social Media, …) get shitty updates which include AI and bloat, I try to update as less as possible while stil trying to get important and new features.
But many apps freak out when not applying these updates in this timespan, which makes it really annoying when needing an app urgently. Then having to update them with eventually bad network makes me aggressive.

Which are your opinions?

  • FeelzGoodMan420English
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    2 months ago

    You update twice a year?? Enjoy your security vulnerabilities i guess.

    • chraebsli@programming.devOP
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      2 months ago

      I dont really use critical apps on my phone and on some important apps, i cant use them until I update them. So theres not a big risk or danger for not updating them. still there are some apps i update often but for the big all, twice a year must be enough

      • FeelzGoodMan420English
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        2 months ago

        I thought you meant like all apps, ha. My bad. Yea there are def apps that you’d wanna use old versions for.

        • chraebsli@programming.devOP
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          2 months ago

          there are everywhere and everytime excaptios
          and yeah like instagram and whatsapp. every update makes the app worse. google assistant too

          • FeelzGoodMan420English
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            2 months ago

            Disabling google assistant is like the first thing I do on Android devices ha.