The issue really isn't whether or not I can read the new information for nap before I updated. Sure, everybody can do that. But everybody doesn't, and that includes people who write for media. Every once in a while, you see a complaint in a mainstream magazine about App updates screwing things up. Back in the day when you had to connect with iTunes in order to update, there was an easy, or relatively easy, fix. But now that many millions of people do not use computers to update at all, such a fix does not exist. It should be something that Apple could help us deal with, but having a way for us to keep the old app on the system until we figure out that the new app is good. Then we simply delete the old, archived app. Truly, Apple engineers are smart enough to figure this out. Yes, such archived apps would take up space. It would be our problem if we ran out of space because we had too many archived apps that we did not get rid of.The problem is even worse when it is an accessibility issue. By the time you've upgraded and figured out that the app broke something badly, it is too late. And if all of us waiting until George upgraded, nobody ever what, because we would all be waiting. The solution is for Apple to make it possible for us to keep old versions of apps on our devices somehow archive, until we tell them we want to get rid of them. Shirley, Cupertino is smart and could do this. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:44 AM, Wayne Merritt <wcmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is an easy way to fix the autoupdating issue: turn off automatic > updates in settings/iTunes and App Store or perhaps in General. Also, > when you see an app update, double tap the name of the app and then > swipe right to read the information of what was included. You > apparently did this since you read the message about not updating the > Urban Spoon app. In general, just because you get an app update, don't > assume that it's fine and update it. I agree in part that it should be > easier to roll back to a prior version, but I'm not sure that > demanding that Apple do something about the issue is a good way to > approach it. > > Wayne > >> On 2/5/15, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: >> This is exactly why iTunes should be used rather than over-the-air. >> >> --- >> Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, >> >> you! really! are! finished! >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mary Otten" <motte...@gmail.com> >> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 7:04 PM >> Subject: Automatic update and why Apple needs to take more steps >> >> >> I just checked my updates in the App Store. One of the apps I have is urban >> >> spoon. There is an update. Next to the update it says don't update to this >> we have found a serious problem. Or words to that effect.this has nothing to >> >> do with excess ability. Is just a problem that they found with the app after >> >> it was released. I have seen this with other apps in the past. And then, of >> >> course, there are the apps which went updated, result in excess ability >> loser time. >> It seems to me that Apple needs to make it easier for us to go back to the >> previous version, without relying on iTunes backups on our computers. They >> have made it easy, and indeed they encourage, The use of over the air >> update. That only works as long as the update works as well or better than >> the application it was replacing. There are enough examples where that is >> simply not true. So it is time for Apple to give us more power and make it >> possible for us to regress to a previous version without resorting to the >> complicated nonsense of iTunes backup on our computers. This is especially >> true, given the inaccessibility of the latest iTunes for Windows. Lucky for >> >> me, I have a Mac, so I don't have to deal with that. But there certainly >> have been times when iTunes for mac was problematic. So, come on Apple. Let >> >> us have more freedom to control our devices as we see fit and as may indeed >> >> prove necessary. >> Mary >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> >> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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