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# Choose which apps update automatically

Let the apps you trust update on their own, and keep the others for you to review.

Your browser and everyday utilities can safely update on their own. A tool you rely on for work maybe not. UniGetUI lets you install updates automatically for every app, or only for the ones you mark.

## All apps or only some?

<table><thead><tr><th width="300">CHOOSE</th><th>WHEN IT FITS</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>All available updates</strong></td><td>You want a hands-off computer and accept that an update can occasionally change something you use.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Only packages marked for automatic updates</strong></td><td>You want the convenience for most apps, but control over a few. This is the safer choice.</td></tr></tbody></table>

Either way, apps whose updates you skip, pause or ignore are never updated automatically. See [Keep an app on a specific version](/unigetui/guides/updates/hold-a-version.md).

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### Turn on automatic installation

1. Go to ***Settings*** – ***Scheduled maintenance***.
2. Turn on ***Install available updates***.
3. In ***Install***, choose ***All available updates*** or ***Only packages marked for automatic updates***.

By default, updates are installed right after each update check. To choose a day and time instead, see [Run updates on a schedule](/unigetui/guides/updates/schedule.md).
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### Mark the apps that may update on their own

Skip this step if you chose ***All available updates***.

1. Under ***Install available updates***, click ***Manage the list***.
2. In ***Manage automatic updates***, select each app that may update by itself. Use the search box to find an app, and ***Only marked*** to review your choices.
3. Close the window. Your changes are saved right away.

You can also mark one app from the package list: right-click it in ***Software Updates***, choose ***Update options***, select ***Automatically update this package***, then click ***Save and close***.
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### Check that it will run

In an app's ***Update options***, the message under ***Automatically update this package*** tells you whether it will actually happen:

* ***This package will be updated when the scheduled maintenance task runs.*** You're all set.
* ***Turn on "Install available updates" in the scheduled maintenance settings for this to take effect.*** Go back to the first step.
* ***Every upgradable package is already installed automatically, so this changes nothing until the scheduled task is limited to marked packages.*** You chose ***All available updates***.
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Automatic updates only run while UniGetUI is running. Leaving it minimized in the notification area is enough.
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## Good to know

* To stop an app from updating automatically, clear ***Automatically update this package*** in its ***Update options***, or clear it in ***Manage the list***.
* You can't mark an app whose updates are ignored. Stop ignoring it first.
* Automatic updates follow your safety settings: no updates on battery or metered connections if you turned that on, and no releases newer than your minimum age. See [Avoid brand-new releases](/unigetui/guides/updates/update-safely.md).
* Updates not happening? See [Scheduled updates don't run](/unigetui/help/troubleshooting/scheduled-updates-dont-run.md).

## Next

* [Run updates on a schedule](/unigetui/guides/updates/schedule.md)
* [Avoid brand-new releases](/unigetui/guides/updates/update-safely.md)


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