This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Maintaining iPhone Apps
iPhone apps are regularly updated to fix bugs or add features and enhancements. If you enable the AUTOMATIC DOWNLOADS setting for Updates in the iTunes & App Store Settings (refer to the task “Configuring Your iPhone to Download and Maintain Apps” in Chapter 4, “Customizing How Your iPhone Works,” for details), you don’t need to worry about keeping your apps current because the iOS does that for you automatically whenever your iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. (Updates to the iOS software are also downloaded automatically, but you have to start the installation process as described in the previous task.) If you enable the Use Cellular Data setting on the iTunes & App Store settings screen, the updates occur at any time your iPhone is connected to the cellular network, too (except for very large updates, which are only downloaded when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network).
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To see when your apps have been updated, tap the App Store app on the Home screen to open that app. Tap the Updates icon, and then swipe up and down to see the apps that have been updated. The updates are grouped by the date on which the updates occurred. To see details about an update, tap its more link. (Be aware that not all apps provide this link.) You can open the current version of the app by tapping OPEN. If an app’s update is pending, tap UPDATE to update it, or you can tap Update All to update all your apps. (With automatic updates enabled, you don’t need to manually update apps, but there might be times you don’t want to wait for the automatic update to be done.)
