Some past ones have been hundreds of megabytes. If you travel with a MacBook and use Wi-Fi hotspots or, worse still, use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot, you might not want it automatically downloading a huge OS X update. Have you ever wished you could go back to the previous version of an app? There is no easy way to do that.

Sometimes an app works great and then one day it is updated with new features or ways of working that just don’t suit you. Not all updates are necessary and if your Mac and apps are working fine, why risk upsetting the system with new updates? Security updates are important and should be installed of course, but not all updates that are available are essential. You might need to put off updating until a future date. You can’t afford the down time and waiting for a big update to install can be frustrating. We have looked at Mac App store annoyances before, and sometimes OS X and application updates are installed at an inconvenient time, such as when you need to get work done for a deadline. You can let OS X (soon to be macOS) handle all updates automatically or you can choose to take control what is installed, when it is installed, and hide updates you don’t want.