How to stop Application Updates Pausing Youtube app

[V-Teck]

Every time I get an app update, if I have youtube playing, it'll pause, even if it's not the youtube app that's being updated. This isn't that much of an issue, except when I have 9 updates... 9 pauses for each app. It sucks. I have the nexus 5, with latest OS. Is there anyway to turn this off?

 

[SpookDroid]

Nope. It will stop most video apps, unfortunately.

 

[V-Teck]

What?? Why?? Do you also have the nexus 5? Or it's the same across other devices? This really sucks. Is there any workaround to it?

 

[SpookDroid]

Same across devices. I have it on my Tab S, I've had it on every phone I can remember. I think the problem is that the update takes over 'focus' so video apps that can't run in the background just pause the video, 'thinking' that you're using a different app. Maybe this'll go away with MultiWindow support in Nougat.

 

[TJA3500]

You can turn off auto update and then you can update your device when you're not watching a video.

 

[V-Teck]

Arghh, that's what I wanted to avoid doing. Because I can't schedule updates to be at a specific time, can I?

 

[SpookDroid]

No, but you can turn off auto-updates and then just update manually when you know you're not watching videos.

I prefer apps not to update automatically so that I know which ones are updating and see if a bug I'm having is fixed (if it updates automatically a couple of times I might miss it).