How to prevent apps from updating themselves on Android

Our phones have become an extension of ourselves, in them we not only store our contacts but we access our social networks, email, websites and favorite applications with incredible ease. Precisely for this reason, smartphones are becoming more complex, with updating processes that, while useful, can be very annoying and consume a lot of data when they start at an inappropriate time. Is that exactly what happens to you? If you are tired of untimely updates, discover how to prevent apps from updating themselves on Android in simple steps.

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Prevent the apps from updating themselves and define when we want this to happen is very important to limit the consumption of data from our mobile, because the automatic update can occur at any time regardless of whether we are connected or not to a Wi network -Fi. However it is important to note that keeping updated the apps we have installed on our mobile is also important to ensure proper functioning, do not forget that the updates help improve aspects such as security or the performance of the app.

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To deactivate the automatic updates of applications you must press the icon of the Play Store to access it, once inside press the 3 stripes that are in the upper left corner in order to access the configuration.

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Then you must go down to Settings to customize the update of applications on your Android. Within Settings choose the first alternative Update automatically, inside you can give you the most appropriate settings.

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If you do not want the applications to be updated automatically in any way then you must choose the first option, however the best option would be to choose the third alternative in which you can update the apps installed on your mobile only when you are connected to a Wi-Fi network -Fi, in this way you will always keep them in perfect condition and without the need to consume your browsing data.

And if in addition to avoiding updates you want to free space on your mobile, then you can not stop reading our article how to remove pre-installed applications on Android to have more memory getting rid of everything you do not use.