How to Update All Apps on iPhone and iPad

How to Update All Apps on iPhone and iPad

Apps on the iPhone and iPad are frequently updated with new features, various enhancements, security adjustments, and other components. If you dont stay on top of updating iOS apps, youll quickly be inundated with dozens of available app updates waiting to be installed for your iPad and iPhone apps. Fortunately theres a simple way to handle a barrage of awaiting app updates, because you an . Youll need a stable and speedy internet connection for this trick to work reasonably, otherwise you might be waiting a long while for all the apps to update on slower internet connections. The ability to update all apps at once is available in all vaguely modern iOS versions, and its the same on both iPhone and iPad. Heres how it works: In the App Store, the apps that are updating will have a little spinning circle indicator next to them. When you return to the Home Screen (name for the desktop equivalent on iPhone or iPad), you will see the updating apps icons are tinted and the app names are temporarily changed to Updating or Waiting depending on where they are in the update queue. Once the app has completed updating, the name of the app and its icon will return to its normal state and naming convention. The process of updating all apps can be fast or slow, depending on the apps you are updating and their size, and how fast your internet connection is. If you want to prioritize the updating of some apps over others, you can always selectively or even of apps you want to halt. Sometimes thats even necessary if an during the update process, as pausing and unpausing an app update can often fix that issue immediately. When finished, all of your iOS apps will be updated, and the numerical update badge indicator on the App Store application will no longer be visible, at least until another app update arrives. The screenshots here demonstrate updating all apps at once using an iPad, but the process is identical on the iPhone too. Something worth mentioning is that sometimes apps are updated but the update hasnt rolled out to your particular device yet, or hasnt been acknowledged by your App Store. If you know that to be the case, you can to make them become visible, though that trick will not work if an app update is not universally available yet. If youre forgetful about updating apps in iOS, and you dont want to deal with manually updating all of your apps like described above, you can also choose to enable Automatic Updates for iOS apps too which will attempt to automate the process. Personally I dont like the automatic update process because sometimes there are apps that I dont want to update for one reason or another so I have automatic app updates disabled in iOS, but this is just a matter of personal device usage and personal opinion, every iPhone and iPad owner (and device) will be different. Updating iOS apps is important for many reasons, including enhanced security, new features, greater compatibility, bug fixes, and much more, so its good to stay on top of this and not let a trillion updates pile up for apps on your iPhone or iPad. The Update All feature makes it particularly simple, so if you havent used it yet, now may be a good time to start.