Wait, how is MFP able to update my app without updating my app? (measurements messed up)

yirara

So since yesterday something happened to the app on iOS. it looks like always - at least until I add the amount of an ingredient, because now the serving size site looks a lot different. The serving unit selector is tiny! hardly able to use it on my 12mini. And the number of servings field suddenly highlights the whole previous entry, thus if I only want to edit the last digit from 1.34 all is selected and I have to type out the whole thing again..

Auto update is always switched off, btw. I know that nobody from MFP will read this unless I add cursing and someone complaints. Just venting, really. Seriously, some developers thought it was a good idea and didn't think of usability. Again.

Lietchi

I had the same thing happen with the new dashboard, if I remember correctly. An update without an actual update.

yirara

I don't think I ever got the new dashboard. All looks like ever. Apart from the totally unusable Add Food site.

BarbaraHelen2013

I’ve been having the same issue with the serving size field for months! Also on iOS. No change in the text size though.

Mildly irritating that I can’t change 0.80 servings to 0.85 without retyping the whole thing.

Also, and I think at the same time, I started to have similar problems with the recipe builder servings field. Only way to edit it is to press and hold until the ‘select all’ thing pops up, then delete the entire field. 🤷‍♀️

AnnPT77

Two possibilities, both speculative answers to the general question of how an app can change without you letting it update.

#1: An app actually has multiple parts (layers), some of which are on your device, and some of which are on server(s) in the cloud. They 'speak' to each other in predefined, structured ways to accomplish stuff. Let's call those predefined, structured things messages. Sometimes those predefined messages need to change, to fix something or add a new function. The developers would change both sides - the part on your device, the part on the servers - to use/expect the new format of message. But you didn't let the update come to your device. Your device and the server are no longer speaking the same language, in effect. Glitches can happen as a result.

#2: Similar scenario, less common, but all on your device. The app on your device uses services provided by your device's hardware and software. Those also operate via agreed ways of communicating. If something in the phone's operating system changed, the app's developers might need to change their software to stay in sync. But you're not letting the app update, so it wouldn't know how to request the services correctly in the new way. Glitches can happen as a result.

That's very oversimplified (cartoon-like), and only a couple of possibilities. You're choosing not to accept updates to avoid glitchy software updates, but that creates potential for a different class of glitches.

Is either of those things what's happening in this case? I have no idea.