# Updates and what's new

> The Mac app updates itself and shows you what changed in each release.

- Page: https://resurf.so/guides/updates
- Section: Get started
- Works on: Mac
- Last checked against the app: 2026-10-17
- Check: Resurf menu → Check for Updates…
- Settings: General → Updates

## Automatic updates

Resurf downloads updates quietly and installs them when it fully quits, or when you choose to restart. This is **Automatic updates** in **Settings → General → Updates**, and it's on by default.

With it off, **Check now** in the same place still works.

## Update now

1. Choose **Check for Updates…** in the Resurf menu.
2. If there's an update, a card at the bottom left of the window says so. Click **Update**.
3. When the card says the update is ready, click **Restart to update**. Or keep working: it installs when you quit Resurf with `⌘Q`.

**Check now** in Settings shows its progress in that row instead of the card.

## See what's new

Open the workspace menu at the bottom of the sidebar and choose **What's new**. When a release you haven't seen arrives, a **What's new** button with a dot also shows at the foot of the sidebar.

It shows the latest release, with each change marked **New**, **Improved** or **Fixed**. **Open full changelog** shows earlier releases.

## Questions

### Can I stop automatic updates?

Turn off Automatic updates in Settings → General. Check now still works.

### How do I update on iPhone or iPad?

Through the App Store. The iPhone and iPad app has no update settings of its own.

### Where are older release notes?

Open What's new, then Open full changelog.

## More guides

- Previous: [The menu bar](https://resurf.so/guides/menu-bar.md)
- [Install and first run](https://resurf.so/guides/start-guide.md): Install Resurf on your Mac, iPhone or iPad and go through the short first-run setup.
- [Find your way on Mac](https://resurf.so/guides/mac-navigation.md): The Mac window has a sidebar of places on the left, your library in the middle and an info pane on the right.
- [Find your way on iPhone](https://resurf.so/guides/iphone-navigation.md): On iPhone and iPad, your library fills the screen, with search at the top and a tab bar at the bottom.
- [Sync your devices](https://resurf.so/guides/device-sync.md): Every device signed in to the same Apple Account shares one library, through iCloud.
- [Free and Pro](https://resurf.so/guides/free-and-pro.md): The Mac app is free for up to 50 captures and 4 spaces, and a Resurf Pro license removes both limits.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://resurf.so/guides/keyboard-shortcuts.md): The keys worth knowing in Resurf, grouped by where you use them.
- [The menu bar](https://resurf.so/guides/menu-bar.md): Resurf keeps an icon in the Mac menu bar, so you can capture and search with the window closed.
- [Every guide](https://resurf.so/llms.txt)