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I feel that this is a dark-pattern to force users to enable automatics updates.

They just needed the space previously occupied by "Updates" to promote their "Arcade"

Clearly, the solution would be to place Arcade under Profile. Easily accessible!

iOS 13 defaults to automatic app updates. How in the world is that a "dark pattern"? I get that people got accustomed to manual updates [1], and some illusion that this gave them some control, but from a rational evaluation it makes no sense.

[1] - I remember when Google first added enabled automatic app updates and one of the most common retorts, including on here, was "can you say bricked" and similar nonsense.

iOS updates apps automatically; system updates still require explicit user approval. I think it 's a decent trade-off, given that the options are "don't update", "update now", and a default of "update overnight, when/if the device is plugged in".

More stuff should allow for the latter option.

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