[michaelt]

Well, if the user wants the update, downloading in advance is a much better experience, because you only get interrupted once, for a restart that only takes a second or two.

That's in contrast to being interrupted twice (once to download, then again to restart) or a single long interruption (shutting down, then downloading, then restarting).

Of course, it's a different matter if the user doesn't want the update. But we developers don't like to think about that :)

[CaptainBern]

An easier fix could be to just add a toggle so users can decide for themselves if they are fine with the app downloading unprompted or not. (This is just based on the post, the app could very well be behaving that way already but since the post doesn't mention it, I'm assuming it does not).

But also: a check every 5 minutes? I understand what you're saying but the only reason those interruptions are frustrating is because of the high volume of daily updates. This could be solved by just keeping this update-frequency reserved for beta users and maintaining a more sane update-frequency for regular users (now what a sane update-frequency is, is a whole other discussion judging by the comments so far :P)

[aldarisbm]

sooo if I ship 3 times a day, let's restart the app 3 times a day?

Oof, imagine you're using the app to demo something and bam update Lol