Question about background services and automatic application updates?

by Simphobic
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Question about background services and automatic application updates?

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Hi,

 

so I see that these 2 options are 2 separate things in options:

 

what’s the difference between enabling automatic updates of application and enabling background services? I see both of these are on by default so wondering.

 

also, if I turn off these. How would that impact “experience” like if I try to open a game directly. Will it open ea app and first prompt me to accept an update as I:

 

1. didnt allow it to install automatically so I need to manually press yes and

 

2: it can’t happen it background so I would need to open it which it does when you open a game ?

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