{"id":197,"date":"2017-06-13T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/no-autoupdateforapps\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:13:24","slug":"no-autoupdateforapps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/no-autoupdateforapps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps you\u2019ve built and published will no longer auto-update"},"content":{"rendered":"
Based on your feedback, we\u2019ve changed how we roll out upgrades to PowerApps in order\u00a0to minimize the impact on apps you\u2019ve already published.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Until recently, new releases of the PowerApps automatically applied product updates to published apps. This was so your end users could immediately benefit from improvements to controls and the platform. Unfortunately, in some cases, this caused some side effects that changed the behavior of your published apps, without providing app authors a chance to test these updates. We\u2019ve reworked our release process so that apps will continue to run as published, no matter how often we update PowerApps. The only time published apps will get updated is when you edit them in PowerApps Studio, and then save and publish a new version to your users.<\/p>\n
Users build apps with PowerApps as a platform. We deploy a new version of PowerApps every few weeks to provide the latest functionality and experiences. Similarly, we release PowerApps clients for creating and playing apps in Windows, Apple and Google stores every few weeks as well. Both PowerApps service (platform) and PowerApps clients have a release version associated with them, for example, the release version on May 30, 2017 was 2.0.640. We publish details about what\u2019s new in each PowerApps release in our documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n What was happening before these changes?<\/u><\/p>\n Whenever you created or modified an app, it was done with a specific PowerApps release. Let\u2019s say you created an app with PowerApps release 2.0.570, and published it to many users in your organization. Time passed, and PowerApps was upgraded to a newer version 2.0.642. Users in your organization started playing the app with the latest PowerApps service and clients 2.0.642. PowerApps automatically upgraded your app to work with PowerApps release 2.0.642, which at times changed the app experience. These changes were not visible in the Versions <\/strong>tab in app management experience.<\/p>\n We have stopped doing the auto-upgrade for your apps with every PowerApps release.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how upgrades will work now:<\/u><\/p>\n
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