Valve, I am begging you that all I want for Christmas 2026 is an “Update All” button

    Posted by Locustere

    28 Comments

    1. BehindThePillow on

      Takes 2 seconds to click on all the titles to update

      Also, there’s an automatic update setting.

    2. Why do you need this? Steam automatically prioritizes updates for games you play frequently. The “Update All” button has been removed to reduce server load. Let Steam manage the updates.

    3. I’m pretty sure the weird update schedule has more to do with managing Valves bandwidth and not your bandwidth.

    4. Just throwing this out there..right above that “Scheduled” tab is the “Up Next” tab. Move the scheduled ones into that and poof. There’s your update all.

    5. Old-Recognition165 on

      Can we also have a do not update button for offline games that break itself with new updates *cough*Bethesda*cough*

    6. Clearly a difference between people who hate having a number icon on an app or 100 unread messages in inbox and people who have to have it clean all the time. I always manually update everything every time I start Steam, so an update all would be nice, but not s must have.

    7. suspiciously_true on

      You can go into your Library mark all your games (click on the top one and than shift-click on the bottom one) than right-click one one game and you have an update all button.

    8. SynapticStatic on

      One thing you can do is as you install games, just right click -> properties -> updates -> set automatic to “immediately download updates”

    9. How about make Steam actually respect the settings and stop scheduling updates when all the games in the library are set to update only when launching.

      That’d be swell.

    10. You know those update will start by themselves, or when you launch the game. Usually off peak hours, so it’s cheaper.

    11. Adventurous-Cry-7462 on

      You dont need to update every game constantly, you’re most likely not even playing them 

    12. If you play them regularly set them as high priority for updates, they will always auto queue the updates as soon as they come out.

    13. I have dozens of games installed “just in case,” some because I keep thinking about playing them and some because they’re really big and my connection sucks.

      I rarely have more than one game needing an update a day. Just how many updates do you have waiting in a row that this would be a worthwhile change?

    14. you can manually set your games to priority download as soon as possibles in the settings (one by one unfortunately) and also say you allow background download. I never have to click anymore. as soon as an update is available it does it

    15. I just wish they put a “download next” or “add to download queue”, so i can have my current download continue instead of pausing that and starting a new one halfway through