When I open Anki, I get a pop up saying “Anki Updated Anki ⁨25.02.5⁩ has been released. Would you like to download it now?” But no matter what I try, I can’t actually get it to update and the same pop up comes up every time. I have a 2020 Macbook Air. My Anki is currently running Version ⁨2.1.54 (b6…

[image] tlu: My Anki is currently running Version ⁨2.1.54 My guess is you have two copies of Anki installed. Each time you try to update, you’re overwriting the one in Applications. But as you’re opening Anki from a different location, you’re going to keep getting the old version instead. If …

Thank you so much! This was the fix! I had the old version in the dock at the bottom of my screen and had been clicking on that.

Can't update Anki

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NameLessGO July 17, 2025, 6:40pm 2

Try manually updating from GitHub (Latest stable as of 17 july is 25.07.2)

https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/download/25.07.2/anki-mac.dmg

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