TMO's Managing Editor, Jeff Gamet, contrinuted to this article. Let's say you're using an app that you need to keep frozen at a specific version, disabling autoupdates lets you manually update your other apps while leaving the one that update alone. If the device connects to a Wi-Fi network during Setup Assistant, it will use the hardware MAC address to join, and then it will treat the network as a previously-known network. Why wouldn't you want to autoupdate all the time, I hear you ask. However, if the device has an MDM profile that turns off the private address setting, it will use the hardware MAC address to join the network. You can turn the feature on or off in the iTunes & App Store settings so you can still choose to download updates individually. When Automatic App Updates is off, you'll be able to manage your app updates, just as before, in the App Store app and its tab on the bottom right: 'Updates.'įrom Jeff Gamet's review, ' iOS 7: Far More than Another Pretty Face.'įor the apps you've already installed, Apple is making it easier to stay up to date with its automatic update feature. Here's an explanation of when you might want to turn it off and how to do it. Check out the products mentioned in this.

Heres how PC users can enable auto-saving in a few easy steps. But there may be times when you don't want that to happen. So if youre using the note-taking app on a Mac, trust that your work will always autosave. The introduction of automatic app updates in iOS 7 is terrific.

Mac turn off autosave for an app