Plex for Mac 1.51.1.3185
How do I completely disable Plex for Mac (ie, player application) automatic updates?
I just wasted more than an hour wading through 13 years of users lamenting that automatic updates and or unsolicited update prompting are horrible. I see that there is a very poor UI setting in PMS for Mac regarding updating ( [Ask] ), but can’t find even that rudimentary control in Plex for Mac.
In my experience, for many, many reasons, it is never beneficial that any software from any developer automatically update.
I don’t even let Apple update any software automatically, and rarely enable any developer’s software to do automatic update checking.
It is astounding the number of times a software engineer has said to me, “I don’t know what’s wrong—I only changed one thing.” Bugs happen. The greater the quantity of interdependent products, the higher the architecture complexity, bug probability soars. There’s no avoiding it. Plex does a lot. That’s good, but it also increases the need for user absolute control over updating. If users ignore version compatibility release notes and obsolete software fails, that’s their problem and should also be their right.
Any UI other than giving users control over if and when to update is inherently disrespectful of users.
Every time Plex for Mac player has updated automatically (ie, involuntarily), my time has been significantly wasted.
