Cursor updated itself after restart

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I downgraded Cursor to v2.4 a few days ago, but today I discovered that it’s back to the buggy v2.5. Before that, I pressed the “Later” button a few times (I don’t remember its exact name).

Steps to Reproduce

No idea. Try to downgrade, press the Later button and the restart Cursor…

Expected Behavior

The expected behavior is that Cursor should not ask to update if a user has already postponed updates, and it should not update unless the user presses the update button.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.5.20
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 511523af765daeb1fa69500ab0df5b6524424610
Date: 2026-02-19T20:41:31.942Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

3

Hey, thanks for the report.

Try this:

  • Open settings.json (Cmd+Shift+P > “Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)”) and add:
"update.mode": "none"

If update.mode: none still doesn’t help and Cursor keeps updating after a restart, let me know. I’ll pass it to the team as a macOS-specific case, since the current tracking for this bug is mostly on Windows.

4

Done. The only question now is how I will know when there are new Cursor updates…

5

Instead of "update.mode": "none", you can set "update.mode": "manual". Then Cursor will show that an update is available, but it won’t download or install it automatically. You can update via Cursor > Check for Updates.

This way you’ll avoid auto-updates and still stay aware of new versions.

6

I suppose I had manual option and the issue was with this option. I never used auto-update with Cursor.

7

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