I love being able to pause app updates on Android Hallie Frederick | usagoldmines.com

For the past few years, I’ve participated annually in a fantasy football league with a group of close friends. I’ve gotten pretty good over the years, even winning gold in 2023 despite a truly terrible run of luck with injured players. Since 2020, we’ve relied on Yahoo’s Fantasy Football app for our team management, but about a month prior to this year’s draft night, Yahoo launched a massive app overhaul that included a pretty poor makeover. On iOS, you’re stuck with this layout for good, but on Android, rolling back to the last pre-redesign version is as easy as grabbing the right APK from APK Mirror.

Even better, though, is Android’s ability to pause app updates at an individual level. For months now, any time I’ve opened the Play Store to manually refresh my apps on my Pixel 9 Pro, I’ve been warned that Yahoo’s Fantasy app is paused, giving me the option to re-enable updates or bypass its pending upgrade. And for months, I’ve hit skip every single time. In a world where iOS and Android have more in common than ever before, it’s the little differences that really cement Google’s platform as the one to stick with. Let’s just hope that never changes.