No matter
your reasoning, it’s easy enough to toggle this setting and gain more control
over the app updating process.
Turn off automatic app updates
Start by
opening the Play Store app. Next, tap the slide-out menu button in the upper left
corner, as denoted by three horizontal lines, then tap Settings. On the
settings screen, tap Auto-update apps.
On the next
screen, you’ll be able to choose whether you want to allow apps to
automatically receive updates over Wi-Fi, whether you want to allow apps to
update at any time, or whether you want to manually install all updates. For
the sake of this how-to, we want to turn off auto-updates altogether, so go
ahead and tap “Do not auto-update apps.”
At this
point, the Auto-update apps option picker screen will close, taking you back to
the main Google Play Settings screen. Tap your Android device’s back
button to
return to the Play Store’s home screen (it may be a hardware or onscreen
button, depending on your device)..
Manually
download app updates
To install
any app updates. go back to the slide-out menu in the Play Store app, then
select My apps from the list. Go to the Installed screen if you aren’t there
already, and look for the Updates subheading, which appears when you have apps
with available updates.
