After the change in the update mechanism in Cursor for Windows where there is now an installer screen with progress bar, Cursor updates, but does not relaunch. Expected behavior is that it should relaunch, since you’ve chosen update from the pop-up notice in Cursor.
Steps to Reproduce
Select “update” when offered an update in Cursor IDE.
Expected Behavior
After the update finishes, Cursor should relaunch, or at least a “launch” button should be present in the modal after updating to re-open Cursor.
What you’re seeing is due to a recent change in how updates are applied on Windows. The current version runs the full installer when updating instead of a quick background swap, and it doesn’t reopen Cursor automatically afterwards. Your files and settings aren’t touched.
This has already been adjusted, and an upcoming release will restore the previous quick background update behavior. In the meantime, you can switch back right now: open Settings (Ctrl+,), search for “Enable Background Updates on Windows”, turn it on, and restart Cursor.
Let me know if the update behavior doesn’t change after enabling that setting.
Hi @Colin . I don’t see that setting actually. A search for back(ground) only yields 1 result in settings and I don’t see it when I scroll through all the settings either.
