[tlb]

I'd really like to have several dedicated iPads for fixed purposes. The problem is that they each require regular user interaction to upgrade apps or the OS. For instance, I have one mounted to my music stand to run Ultimate Guitar and Spotify. When I come back to it after a week, it often takes a few minutes to click through all the upgrade dialogs, or deal with Spotify being logged out, or whatever.

Apple: I'd buy more iPads if they required less frequent hoop jumping. As a goal, I should be required to do something only once a year.

[jd20]

Can't you just turn off auto-updating (for both the OS and apps)? Or maybe just leave on auto-update for Spotify, since they probably don't service very old client versions. Probably turn off iCloud as well, since it will nag you periodically when you get logged out as well.