Has anyone figured this out yet? This is extremely frustrating. I've just switched from an lg v30 and I haven't had an issue with auto updates at all. Now I'll have apps that just won't work at all. then i come to find out that I have 23 apps just sitting in que on the app store that need updating. Then it takes forever to update them all at once.... It doesn't make since that these phone have all these cool features yet they can't do something simple like auto-update and app from the app store, I must be doing something wrong.
It doesn’t work like that.
Apps that have updates available are still fully functional, save from the changes within the update. If you leave the AppStore for what it is, you will notice that apps are getting updated periodically in the background.
Someone who never looks for updates won’t notice the lag in update intervals.
While you as person may want to update the second an update comes out, iOS will only look for and update every 2 maybe 3 days, if even that. I don’t have any idea what the official interval is.
Just go to Settings > iTunes & AppStore and enable Automatic Downloads for Updates.