In this new series of posts, we focus on various tech issues and tech problems. Our issue in the inaugural edition are auto-updates of Instant Apps through Google PLAY. Even though I have turned OFF auto update of apps on Google PLAY, it seems to be ignoring this setting for Instant Apps.
This auto-update happens very quickly. I got it doing this a couple of times, but it completed so fast I was not able to take screenshots. The first time I saw it I thought I was hallucinating, but I’ve seen it multiple times since then, in different days, and different times of the day 🙂
The silver lining of this though it appears that this waits until you are Wifi, because every time I’ve seen it so far happened when I woke up the phone while it was Wifi. I haven’t (yet?) noticed this issue while running on cellular.
This was observed on a Nexus 6, running stock OTA Android, currently at 7.0, and (impatiently) waiting for OTA 7.1 🙂
I understand that the nature of “Instant Apps” may be such that it has smaller updates, and but still, it feels like a violation of the promise not to auto-update apps.!
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