sorry, my previous post was an allergic shock reaction. i am, very unfortunately, very allergic to massive BS 
Just leaving this here:
Can you give more info on what address you blocked? Its crazy that this is the behavior for such a sensitive piece of software.
+1: Itās definitely a āmustā in a corporate environment, where users do not have admin permissions, to have the option to disable the auto-updates.
āNot a good choice?ā Iām on a business trip in another state only to find out the auto-update has installed a new version that isnāt compatible with the High Sierra OS Iām locked into for work purposes. Iām nowhere near my backups so I can restore the app and so Iāve just spent two hours in a hotel trying to find the earlier version and battling Apple and Bitwarden support reps who absolutely cannot understand why I need the previous version.
I think itās better to stop treating users like seven year olds and let them manage their own computers. Having auto-update turned on by default is fine, but a user should be able to turn it off for reasons that, frankly, developers canāt foresee nor wrap their heads around but are perfectly logical. Now I have to hold onto this universal installer so I can re-install Bitwarden every damn time it auto-updates. Ugh.
@VisibleEvidence - sorry to hear about your issue. I can only imangine how frustrating that must have been.
You will probably be interested to see this post from above, which may prevent this from happening again to you:
@dh024 I have no idea what that means. I am the proverbial End User. Thanks, though.
I am just an end-user, too, who was offering to help. Do you want me to provide more explicit instructions on how you can try this potential fix? I wonāt bother if you arenāt interested.
@dh024 No, thatād be great. If itās a solution for Mac, Iād appreciate it.
OK, no problem. Try this (no guarantees it will work, but its worth a shot as others have had success):
Open a Terminal window in your Mac (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and update your OS environment variables by entering this line of code and pressing the RETURN key:
echo āexport ELECTRON_NO_UPDATER=1ā >> ~/.bash_profile
You should only have to do this once. Just make sure to reboot your machine afterwards.
@dh204 Ah, I see what itās doing; it looks like itās disabling updating for everything. Is that right?
Well, any apps that rely on the Electron framework installed on your Mac, yes. But not other locally installed apps.
You should be able to āundoā this behaviour by opening your .bash_profile file in any text editor and deleting that line which was added by the terminal command I posted above, if you like. But I donāt think there is a way to pick and choose which Electron-based apps get updates or not.
@dh024 Hmmā¦ well, if it works, it works. Iāll have to do some research on my key apps before trying that. I have two work-centric apps that lock me into High Sierra for now so Iād have to make sure that doesnāt mess them up. Thanks for the tip!
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This request is MacOS specific; I donāt know if the same would apply to Windows or Linux.
Add a setting/preference for the Bitwarden Desktop app to enable the app to update automatically.
Reasoning for not enabling automatic updates in Apple System Settings can vary between end-users, for example one may not want other apps on their device to update automatically as a form of version control. My specific scenario prevents this setting from being enabled, or even performing a manual update from the App Store, as my device is controlled by our company MDM.
Adding this feature would allow me to easily stay up-to-date with new releases, without bothering my company IT or bypassing company security (company policy suggests auto-updates to be turned on whenever available, but unfortunately not through the App Store).
macOS Sierra 10.13 as well. Applied the solution as described above but it only works for a while. Recently I had to do cold start (holding power button) and on restart the update torture started again.
They should have released a neutered version of the app without the auto-updater for the cheap-old-vintage-hardware folks.
This is real annoyance from Bitwarden they just effetively force me to buy a new machine or stop using their service. I donāt even think Lastpass was that bad with respect to continuity for its user base ā¦
I was happy user switched from LP to BW about 2 years ago and this here has been a slap in face. Not because they donāt provide updates for my vintage machine, but because they donāt care apparently people losing access to password getting surprise when password is needed most.
Itās been several month. They could have released the neutered version. Itās not a big ask.
Feature name: Enable/Disable automatic updates
Feature function: Allow a user to set whether new updates must be downloaded automatically without any notification (as it is now) or whether Bitwarden should just notify the user that a newer version is available and then give the user the option to download it later.
What will this feature do differently?: A person may be in areas where large downloads are not allowed or where the cost of such downloads on mobile data (especially when roaming) can be very high. A setting like this will enable the user to decide whether an update must be downloaded, at that specific time, or not thus giving the user the option to download said update later.
What benefits will this feature bring?: Better control over what the application does in the background.
The ability to disable automatic updates is needed for situations such as bug #6169 where the desktop app updates before a compatible version of the browser extension is available. In the current situation one must downgrade to 2023.7.1 to restore functionality, but immediately after installing the user is prompted to upgrade.
Is there any update to this request?
I am deploying the app via Intune and due to the frequency of the updates it would be great if the update notifications could be disabled to users stop getting interrupted!
these devs are just hilariously ignorant. dropped bitwarden a while ago and probably in our corp with 2000+ users we arenāt gonna even consider it, because of that.
I would like to be able to disable automatic updates for all users of a machine, because I donāt want the users without local admin to get the update prompt that they canāt authorize and donāt want it automatically downloading the installer that isnāt going to be used. Instead, our system management tool deploys the update quite quickly.