{"id":22928,"date":"2019-07-05T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/?p=22928"},"modified":"2019-11-15T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:24:16","slug":"how-to-update-ios-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/22928\/","title":{"rendered":"How to update apps on your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We cannot overstate the importance of updating apps from time to time for the sake of security. Use outdated apps and attackers could <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/whatsapp-call-zeroday\/26941\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">spy on you through a call on WhatsApp<\/a>, hijack your Xiaomi <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2019\/04\/05\/pre-installed-security-app-puts-150-million-xiaomi-smartphone-users-at-risk-what-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">using a bug in the built-in antivirus<\/a>, or something else. But do you know where and how to look for updates? Let\u2019s investigate.<\/p>\n<h2>Where do iOS and Android app updates hide?<\/h2>\n<p>Suppose you decide to update WhatsApp. What will you do? Go to the app settings? That would be logical \u2014 but pointless. Open your smartphone settings and peruse the app management section? Alas, that won\u2019t help either.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, all app updates are centralized and handled by the official store, which is the App Store on iOS and Google Play on Android. Those are the settings we need.<\/p>\n<input type=\"hidden\" class=\"category_for_banner\" value=\"kisa-generic\">\n<h3>How to configure automatic updates in iOS<\/h3>\n<p>Worried that some apps might be out of date? It\u2019s best to force them to update automatically. In iOS, you can activate this option in the App Store settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open <em>Settings<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the <em>Apple ID<\/em> icon at the very top of the menu.<\/li>\n<li>Select <em>iTunes &amp; App Store<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to <em>Automatic downloads<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Enable <em>Updates<\/em>. Further down, you can configure whether updates will download over a cellular connection \u2014 if you want to save data, turn off <em>Use cellular data<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_27543\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/04235127\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-1-EN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27543\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/04235127\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-1-EN.png\" alt=\"How to set up automatic updates in iOS\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22931\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to set up automatic updates in iOS<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to configure automatic updates in Android<\/h3>\n<p>Unlike with iOS, all relevant settings in Android are inside the <em>Play Store<\/em> app. To enable automatic updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the <em>Play Store<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the three bars in the upper left corner of the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Select <em>Settings<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Find <em>Auto-update apps<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose whether you want to update apps <em>Over any network<\/em> (which means updating over a cellular connection if you\u2019re not on a Wi-Fi network) or <em>Over Wi-Fi only<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Tap <em>Done<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_27544\" style=\"width: 4330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/04235148\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-2-EN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27544\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/04235148\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-2-EN.png\" alt=\"How to set up automatic updates in Android\" width=\"4320\" height=\"2960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22933\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to set up automatic updates in Android<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to manually update iOS and Android apps<\/h3>\n<p>What if you don\u2019t want automatic updates? Let\u2019s say you don\u2019t have the very latest device, and there\u2019s a risk that the next version of an app might be incompatible with it. Or maybe you\u2019d just rather know before downloading exactly what\u2019s new in the next version.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, you will have to check for updates from time to time and install them manually. You are your own boss. The App Store helpfully indicates next to each update whether it will work on your gadget.<\/p>\n<h4>To manually update apps in iOS:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the <em>App Store<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the update icon in the lower right corner of the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Select <em>Update<\/em> next to the relevant apps.<\/li>\n<li>To download all updates at once, tap <em>Update All<\/em> at the top right of the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_27549\" style=\"width: 1289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/08204119\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-3-EN1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27549\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/08204119\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-3-EN1.png\" alt=\"How to manually update apps in iOS\" width=\"1279\" height=\"1136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22943\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to manually update apps in iOS<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>To manually update Android apps:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Open <em>Play Store<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the three bars in the upper left corner of the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Select <em>My apps &amp; games<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>In the <em>Updates<\/em> tab, select <em>Update<\/em> next to all apps you want to update.<\/li>\n<li>To download all updates at once, tap <em>Update all<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_27546\" style=\"width: 2892px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/04235234\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-4-EN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27546\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2019\/07\/04235234\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps-screen-4-EN.png\" alt=\"How to manually update apps in Android\" width=\"2882\" height=\"2960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22937\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to manually update apps in Android<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Update away!<\/h3>\n<p>As you can see, managing updates is fairly easy if you know where to look for them. Now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/whatsapp-call-zeroday\/26941\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">spyware bugs in WhatsApp<\/a> or anything else should be afraid of you, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<input type=\"hidden\" class=\"category_for_banner\" value=\"kisa-generic-2\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the apps on your phone don\u2019t update automatically, and you can\u2019t find the right setting, we tell you where to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2484,"featured_media":22929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1853,105,109,1250,423,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-22928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tips","8":"tag-tips","9":"tag-android","10":"tag-apps","11":"tag-ios","12":"tag-mobile-devices","13":"tag-updates"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/22928\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/16114\/"},{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/13622\/"},{"hreflang":"ar","url":"https:\/\/me.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/6287\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/18008\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/16145\/"},{"hreflang":"es-mx","url":"https:\/\/latam.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/14900\/"},{"hreflang":"es","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.es\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/18810\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/17573\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/23040\/"},{"hreflang":"tr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.tr\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/6150\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/27541\/"},{"hreflang":"fr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.fr\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/11930\/"},{"hreflang":"pt-br","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.br\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/12159\/"},{"hreflang":"pl","url":"https:\/\/plblog.kaspersky.com\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/10932\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/19698\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/23562\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/18627\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/how-to-update-ios-android-apps\/22869\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/tag\/tips-2\/","name":"tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22928"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23773,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions\/23773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}