But, for manual updates option, the updates aren’t installed until the user who has logged in to the VM installs them. At that time, if you select, ‘Automatic by OS’, then the updates for the VM are configured to be installed automatically in the VM’s OS registry and accordingly whenever the updates are available, the VM’s OS installs the updates regularly.

Basically, when you provision a VM in Azure, at that time itself, you are asked the option for ‘Automatic by OS’ updates or ‘Manual’ updates in the ‘Patch Orchestration’ option under ‘Management’ section.Thus, to disable the automatic updates for your VMs for the above option, i.e., through ‘Update Management’ feature, kindly refer to the below documentation link for details:. Same is the case for ‘Automatic updates’ for Guest OS and Host OS also because, if the ‘Update Management’ option is enabled, then an automation and a log analytics workspace account is created as shown below due to which the update management schedule for the Guest as well as Host OS is managed through the ‘Update Management’ section as the status of the VM’s update is reported in it through backend automation account and a log analytics workspace:. You can surely disable the automatic updates for virtual machines in Azure by opting out of the ‘Automatic upgrades’ option in the Virtual machine’s ‘Operations’ section -> Update Management workspace as shown in the below snapshot.

Turn off auto update bluestacks