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What is the process for pinning old versions of zmNinja for an Android or iphone? My use case, is that I have a server that I don't want to necessarily upgrade, and yet I want to use zmNinja. I'm afraid that if I use it the automatic updates of the phone will eventually break compatibility between the two...

So let's say I want to use 1.32.3 for the next five years, what are my options generally for using zmNinja?

I think android allows you to disable auto updates on a per app basis too
I found several articles when I did a google search, one of which is this

Correct -- while it's a bit obscure, you can disable autoupdates for a single app in the Play Store App.

Go to
and pick the app.

Then drop the three-dots menu in the top right corner, and uncheck "Enable auto update".

You can probably do it from the app store on the web too, but I don't know where.

Thanks for the help. It looks like it is possible on Android, but not on iphones (the only option I saw was to update all apps manually, which is illogical - I can't have the users doing that).

Hopefully this becomes possible in the future, because if I setup a company with 5-10 iphones, I'll be in trouble if I don't keep up with ZM updates.

The only really safe solution to this is to fork when you have to introduce a compatibility-break; create a new separate app called, frex, "zmNinja 2.2", and then put new updates into that.

If you're really nice, you'll backport security fixes...

This may introduce it's own problems; I don't know how the appstores work, policy wise, but as long as they continue to make it impossible to do what you need to do, you don't have all that many choices.

Nice you're thinking about it at least, unlike, say, the Allen & Heath people, who already revved their iPad app to 64 bit in 1.4, and you can't update your console past 1.2 if you can't afford a new iPad.

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