Here’s a major, major new feature for the App Store in iOS 7: your apps will now automatically update themselves to the latest version, no manual updates required.
That’s a feature everyone’s going to love… until they hate it when apps invisibly stop working because something broke between versions, but users didn’t realize it had updated.
The App Store is also getting some new ways of browsing apps: by age, or by apps that are popular in your immediate area. Very cool.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
2 responses to “In iOS 7, You’ll Never Have To Update Your Apps [WWDC 2013]”
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Personally I liked being able to see (on one screen) what features were added to my apps and what things were fixed.
I didn’t think it was that big of a chore to hit Update All now and then, after reading the details.
I hope they have some sort of Auto Update Summary, where you could still see this info, rather than hunt down the apps individually in the app store.
With hundreds of apps on devices, how will new features added in updates get exposed?