Due to my experience with a previous bad Asus Zenfone update, I opted not to reboot to finish installing the Android 14 update. My AT&T Zenfone 9 is not one of the broken ones, for now. However, I regularly get a pop-up asking me to update and have an impossible-to-dismiss notification telling me to tap to reboot.
I live in fear that I'll accidentally hit reboot, have my phone die or otherwise inadvertently install this update and render my phone useless.
Previous posts have established that Asus does not respect the "Disable automatic updates" choice of users. In addition, since the update is already downloaded and ready to go, it's too late for that anyway.
I'm hopeful that Asus is working diligently on a fix and will have a working update as soon as possible. Until then, I'm hoping for a simple, immediate step: How do I permanently avoid a forced install of this phone-bricking update?
