Prevent auto updates (refresh) of my app when it is running

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i believe

[WIP] Refresh App Awareness

This thread summaries an upcoming feature of snapd that is something many application developers were asking for a long while now. Internally we call it refresh-app-awareness because it means snapd is aware of running applications and will inhibit refreshes of snaps with apps running. The feature is smart enough to filter out services that are restarted during refresh. Current Status The feature is currently under development, coming to snapd 2.39 behind a feature flag, that is, it will require…

is soon becoming a default so that apps should not refresh while running but notify the user to close and update it …

until it is fully there you can advise your users to enable the experimental feature via

snap set system experimental.refresh-app-awareness=true

(probably show them a popup on first start of the app to tell them about it)