JF Mezei

The App store is telling me that "Numbers" has an update waiting. If I
have other apps that also need to be updated, I cannot click on "update
all" because the "Numbers" one fails with "Can only be installed on IOS5
devices".


So I had to manually update each application tonight, with the "Numbers"
still flagged as needing an update.

Is there a way to tell my Iphone to no longer try to update Numbers so
that I could click on "update all" when there are many apps that need an
update ?

(I can't upgrade to ios5 until jailbreaking becomes available).

nospam

In article <4e9d1363$0$8613$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.co m>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> The App store is telling me that "Numbers" has an update waiting. If I
> have other apps that also need to be updated, I cannot click on "update
> all" because the "Numbers" one fails with "Can only be installed on IOS5
> devices".
>
> So I had to manually update each application tonight, with the "Numbers"
> still flagged as needing an update.
>
> Is there a way to tell my Iphone to no longer try to update Numbers so
> that I could click on "update all" when there are many apps that need an
> update ?

itunes will show you updates you can't run or that aren't actually
available (two longstanding bugs), but on the device itself it should
only show compatible updates.

> (I can't upgrade to ios5 until jailbreaking becomes available).

tethered is available.

Your Name

In article <4e9d1363$0$8613$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.co m>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> The App store is telling me that "Numbers" has an update waiting. If I
> have other apps that also need to be updated, I cannot click on "update
> all" because the "Numbers" one fails with "Can only be installed on IOS5
> devices".
>
>
> So I had to manually update each application tonight, with the "Numbers"
> still flagged as needing an update.
>
> Is there a way to tell my Iphone to no longer try to update Numbers so
> that I could click on "update all" when there are many apps that need an
> update ?

I haven't lloked at iTunes update system closely enough to know, but you
can tell Mac OS X's Software Update application to ignore the ones you
don't want, so there might be something similar somewhere in iTunes' menu
options.



> (I can't upgrade to ios5 until jailbreaking becomes available).

Jailbreaking for iOS 5 was reportedly available before iOS 5 was even
officialy released.

BreadWithSpam@fractious.net

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
> In article <4e9d1363$0$8613$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d@news.astraweb.co m>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> The App store is telling me that "Numbers" has an update waiting. If I
>> have other apps that also need to be updated, I cannot click on "update
>> all" because the "Numbers" one fails with "Can only be installed on IOS5
>> devices".
>>
>> So I had to manually update each application tonight, with the "Numbers"
>> still flagged as needing an update.

That's really annoying. My iPad is still on iOS4 and I'm
going through the same thing. I updated the iPhone, though,
so it's stopped on there.

> itunes will show you updates you can't run or that aren't actually
> available (two longstanding bugs), but on the device itself it should
> only show compatible updates.

That's not what happens. On the device, it shows incompatible
updates and then you cannot use the "update all" button. It's
a pain and annoying.



--
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.

nospam

In article <yob4nz649vx.fsf@panix2.panix.com>,
<BreadWithSpam@fractious.net> wrote:

> > itunes will show you updates you can't run or that aren't actually
> > available (two longstanding bugs), but on the device itself it should
> > only show compatible updates.
>
> That's not what happens. On the device, it shows incompatible
> updates and then you cannot use the "update all" button. It's
> a pain and annoying.

it is what happens for me. on all of my ios devices, only the apps that
can actually run are shown. some apps have just been updated to ios5
minimum and they are not shown on the devices running 4.3 or earlier.
it was the same for ios4 minimum apps and ios 3 devices.

on itunes though, it shows anything and everything, even though itunes
knows which devices you have and what firmware revs are installed.

nospam

In article
<yourname-1810111927130001@203-118-185-158.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your
Name <yourname@yourisp.com> wrote:

> I haven't lloked at iTunes update system closely enough to know, but you
> can tell Mac OS X's Software Update application to ignore the ones you
> don't want, so there might be something similar somewhere in iTunes' menu
> options.

there isn't.

JF Mezei

nospam wrote:

> itunes will show you updates you can't run or that aren't actually
> available (two longstanding bugs), but on the device itself it should
> only show compatible updates.

I was using the app store application on the iPhone and it was telling
me that an update for "Numbers" (not applicable to my version of Ios)
was available.

This was not done via iTunes.

nospam

In article <4e9db0ac$0$18535$c3e8da3$e408f015@news.astraweb.c om>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> > itunes will show you updates you can't run or that aren't actually
> > available (two longstanding bugs), but on the device itself it should
> > only show compatible updates.
>
> I was using the app store application on the iPhone and it was telling
> me that an update for "Numbers" (not applicable to my version of Ios)
> was available.

i don't have numbers but i am definitely not seeing a few apps on the
device that require a later version than what's currently running, but
do show up in itunes.

Mike Barnard

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:57:59 -0700, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>In article <yob4nz649vx.fsf@panix2.panix.com>,
><BreadWithSpam@fractious.net> wrote:
>
>> > itunes will show you updates you can't run or that aren't actually
>> > available (two longstanding bugs), but on the device itself it should
>> > only show compatible updates.
>>
>> That's not what happens. On the device, it shows incompatible
>> updates and then you cannot use the "update all" button. It's
>> a pain and annoying.
>
>it is what happens for me. on all of my ios devices, only the apps that
>can actually run are shown. some apps have just been updated to ios5
>minimum and they are not shown on the devices running 4.3 or earlier.
>it was the same for ios4 minimum apps and ios 3 devices.
>
>on itunes though, it shows anything and everything, even though itunes
>knows which devices you have and what firmware revs are installed.

On my 4.3 iPhone the app store link shows app that can't be updated,
as mentioned earlier.