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Please wait your app/ laptop/ pc/ phone/ watch is UPDATING!
While I agree that updates are at times necessary, most of the time they are a pain in the backside. The most irritating and dangerous are those on your windows. They can take a long time and the results are often dismaying.
iPhone and Apple Watch are frequently updated and while most of them seem to make BNI difference at all, some have known to stop the device from functioning properly. I had such an experience sometime back when my iPhone 6 just stopped doing anything at all. Luckily my son hadn’t updated his phone and he could fix the issue. One thing that can be admired is that after these mess-ups, there is immediately another update to fix what the previous update destroyed.
Do you have automatic updates turned on on your devices? Or do you read the reviews before installing updates?
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Automatic updates 🙂
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I have that too. But perhaps we should check before updating
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May be but I don’t do, Sadje ❤️
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Aaah! The touchy topic of Updates. My Apple laptop keeps throwing these messages.
What an interesting topic and equally interesting post.
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Thanks Swati! So does my phone. So much time is wasted and nothing gained
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I know right. Most of the times, it will say some of the updates didn’t install for so and so reason.
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Yeah, a constant source of irritation
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Sometimes, they make things worse!
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Indeed, very often!
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Being a former techie (long… time ago!) I look at Every “update” with suspicion…perhaps unwarranted but hey…. Therefore, automatic updates are turned off for me. I install them and check their affect on my device (especially Windows) and roll any interlopers back, if things go pear-shaped with any frequently used applications.
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Very good way to deal with them.
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May be a bit too cautious…but it works for me. Thanks
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You’re welcome!
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😊
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I agree Sadje, not updates function smoothly. I always view them with a slight skepticism.
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Yes, that’s how they should be treated. Like hostile enemies 😅
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I’m too lazy to update them manually, so I use automatic updates. And that sometimes come back to bite me in the butt.
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Haha! Yes, many times indeed
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Thanks Michael
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I go with automatic updates. I’m not as dependent on my phone as others are. If it screws my phone up, I can check online.
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I do all my stuff on my phone so if an update messes it up, I’m in deep trouble.
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life as we know too well.. YIKES! 🤷♀️
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Yup😱
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😂😅
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The other day I got a message that my Microsoft Edge browser software needed an update and that totally messed up my computer. last week WordPress must have had some type of update, because now all of my emails look totally different on the comments and likes that I get.
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Oh yes WP update on us sneakily. The comments look strange, the emails are different and other updates are just as dangerous
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True👍
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🙏🏼
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I get notices sometimes to update computer or phone, but I rarely do it. They have a deal to ‘remind me later’ and I choose that all the time, then eventually it updates itself, most times for the worse. My emails are messed up now, too. Some blogs I follow I can’t even get to anymore. Not good.
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That update has really messed up things for many
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I never do updates and interestingly my electronic gadgets seem to run way longer than average.
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That’s very clever of you Deb. Many updates lessens the life of the device
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Automatic updates too! My IPHONE will do my updates when I am sleeping, l love that! 🤗
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I’m glad that you’re satisfied with this
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I do have the automatic updates turned on, yet they are such a pain sometimes. Similar to your story, I had an update one time on my iPhone, which stopped it from working. The opposite effect needed.
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As I said, they aren’t always useful!
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Agreed! 😅
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I have turned off auto updates just like auto correct! 😅
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That’s what I should do too.
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I’ve learned not to do auto updates. Let’s just say I almost had a heart attack back in the day when I couldn’t find my thesis when I updated my laptop
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Oops! I think it’s very wise decision
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My computer updates when I reboot it (which is probably not often enough) my phone will ask about system updates and I try to time that when I have another phone to fall back on just in case. You are right though, some updates are so full of bugs and depending on the app it can take a while to fix those bugs.
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You’re wise too schedule the updates.
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