LG V30: Turn OFF App Auto Updates

Updating the software and applications on your LG V30 is highly recommended since it fixes the previous bugs you’ve experienced since the last update. The stock settings of your LG V30 automatically updates every software and app in it. It’s very convenient since you don’t have to manually update each one of them, hence saving time and effort. Yet not all LG V30 users are good with this and some want to have control over what applications they want to be automatically updated. If you want to know how to disable the auto update of applications in your LG V30, keep reading.
The reason that these users want this auto update feature disabled on their LG V30 is that they’re annoyed at pop-up notifications on their phone while they’re doing something important. Also, having an automatic update will surely eat up a lot of data on your phone which is a nuisance especially if you’re saving the data for something. Whatever your reason may be, we’ll be teaching you how to disable or enable auto updates for applications on your LG V30.
The method of disabling or enabling the auto update for your Google Play Store applications is quick and simple. The best part is that you can set it to update over WiFi connection only, which is the remedy for the issue mentioned above.

Is it Good to Enable the LG V30 Auto Application Update?

The verdict is up to you. If you are a newbie Android user or a casual user only, we suggest to leave it on. It’ll help remove the constant application update notifications and help lessen issues with applications that have malfunctioned just because you forgot to update them. While if you leave auto-update on, you may not notice what features on the app are new. The downside of leaving it OonN is that you won’t be able to read the newest features added to that application, which we think is less of a problem especially for better-known applications like Youtube, Facebook or any games that you play on your LG V30.

Enabling and Disabling Automatic Application Updates

In order to turn ON and OFF the automatic application updates, the first thing you’ll need to do is to set everything up in Google Play Store. Then follow the instructions below to further enable or disable it.

1. Open your LG V30
2. Head on to the Google Play Store
3. Hit the Menu button located at the upper left next to the Play Store 3 times
4. A slide-out menu will appear then click on to “Settings”
5. In the General Settings, press “Auto-update apps”
6. With this, you can choose what applications that will be automatically updated or not

Please do note that disabling the automatic updates for a certain application won’t prevent you from receiving notification on your LG V30 that it needs to be updated.