Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? - eviltoast

I feel like my phone apps update constantly. In general, that’s a good thing, I assume. I figure they’re fixing bugs or whatever. However, I don’t run into issues very often, nowhere near the rate of updates, and nothing seems to change after the update.

Compare that to Steam games which update really infrequently and the changes are usually much more obvious.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Read the patch notes and see what’s changing. Usually it’s “squashing bugs”, but there could be a few new features you’d like in there.

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        1 month ago

        lol I just checked and I had 26 pending app updates. Every one of them had about the same level of detail.

        The only exceptions were the Wikipedia app and Voyager, both of which listed some new features.

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        1 month ago

        There are maybe 3 of my ~50 apps that provide actual changelogs. All the others only write “bug fixes and performance improvements”, puns or other marketing pitches.

        I disabled auto updates and only update if there are actual changelogs or the app doesn’t let me use it anymore without updating. But there have been too many automatic enshittifications for me to trust auto updates.