This is a feature the app developer has built-in/opted into. There probably isn’t anything you can do to disable it.
That’s what I suspected. Fucking infuriating.
Hello @ljdawson@lemmy.world, perhaps you could help this user?
Yup it can be disabled here:
Settings shortcut: General > Show a reminder to update when available
Thanks!
@Blizzard@lemmy.zip, here’s your answer.
I was speaking in general. If this is about Sync specifically I see a “Show a reminder to update when available” options under General in the settings that may be related.
Great find! It’s all coming together - android-delivered function that the app uses to trigger this google play popup and in this particular case the dev was nice enough to give an option to disable it. Thank you and everyone else participating in the investigation!
Just update?
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Gladly, as soon as they support my phone (Galaxy S20 Ultra). In the meantime, do you have a solution to the posted problem?
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Why did you get downvoted so hard lmao? GrapheneOS doesn’t support that many phones but LineageOS has support for many phones, though unfortunately the latest Samsung phones have their bootloaders locked I believe so nothing can be done about the OS.
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Yeah, your right. A non-booting phone won’t have this problem, so we may as well just flash graphene and problem solved. Why didn’t I think of that…
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So this is a feature I enabled in Sync by default but you can disable it here:
Settings shortcut: General > Show a reminder to update when available
Use Aurora store instead of Google Play? At least my apps never get popups like these.
I actually even downloaded an apk from apkmirror so it’s not linked to Google Play Store and it still pops up.
This doesn’t fix your problem but what I believe you are seeing is something asking you to update Google Play Services , this isn’t related to the Play Store.
GPS contains libraries and other things apps need to function.
An oversimplification would be that it is an analog to Android System Webview which enables web browsing in most apps not based on Firefox.
No, it’s definitely asking (demanding at this point) to update the app I start. I hid the name and icon of the app because it’s irrelevant and didn’t want to divert the discussion (it’s Sync for Lemmy). It’s possible though that the app triggers this pop-up from play store via some function.
- Open Google Play Store
- Tap your profile icon and go to Manage apps & device
- Tap Manage at the top tab bar
- Scroll and find your app, tap it
- In the upper right tap the three dot menu and disable “Enable auto update”
If it’s already disabled I’m not sure what to try. I used APKMirror to downgrade Discord back to a usable version, disabled Play Store updates for it, and haven’t had this issue.
