Phrase · Digital life & internet

the forced app update

noun phrase /thuh-forst-ap-up-dayt/

A completely non-consensual software download that hides all the features you actually liked and replaces them with useless garbage.

“I lost all my settings to the forced app update and now I can't find the search bar.”

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