Apple appears to be rolling out a lot of iOS app updates to iPhone and iPad owners even though the apps had already been updated. This is an unusual move and one that is likely to prove annoying for iPhone owners who have a lot of apps installed. However, while it remains unclear why the updates are rolling out, they might be to fix an iOS bug that’s currently doing the rounds.
Keeping apps up to date is a necessary process. Not only do these updates add features, but most of the time they come with bug fixes and improvements to either make apps run better or more safely than before. However, as is the case with updates in general, they can also cause problems and this is even more true when a major operating system update rolls through, which might be the case at the moment with iOS.
As spotted by MacRumors, iPhone owners are encountering apps requiring updates even though the very same apps had been updated recently. Essentially, the updates are being reissued once again and the exact reason why remains unknown. What is clear is that the issue seems to not be resigned to one or two apps, but lots of them. For example, the more apps a user has installed on their iPhone, the more reissued updates there will be to deal with.
App Updates Could Be A Fix For A Recent iOS Bug
Late last week, it emerged that an iOS bug was affecting a lot of iPhone and iPad owners and stopping them from being able to open apps. When a user attempted to launch an app, instead of the app opening as usual they would see a message stating “this app is no longer shared with you.” In most cases, the issue was being resolved by the user having to delete the app and reinstall it once again. Complaints of the issue have been raised on Apple’s support forum with many suggesting the error arose after updating to iOS 13.5. What’s more, as some users have noted on social media, the issue affects some big-name apps including Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify.
The timing of that bug and the more recent action of Apple reissuing iOS app updates on such a scale is unlikely to be a coincidence. Instead, it is likely that these app updates were needed to be sent out to help remedy the bug. While receiving so many app update requests all at once is going to be annoying for some device owners, if this does fix the bug then it is a better solution than deleting the apps, reinstalling them, and running the risk of losing the app data in the process. Whether or not the reissuing of app updates by Apple is to fix the ‘not shared with you’ problem, it is a good idea to apply all the updates as soon as possible.
