I was in a game while this decided to update mid game & I have auto update off this has...

If you cancel the update mid-stream you essentially have corrupted the game install. The Xbox is updating the game software as it is downloading the patch that way it does not have to reserve hard drive space for a potentially large patch. Users would
be complaining why cant I use my entire hard drive.

Turn off automatic updates.

Put it offline.

FYI PC's also have an auto-update mode now as well.

You can click on Pause All if you go on queue when you update or download any games or updates. You will see on this screec Cancel ALL button and Pause ALL button.

Yeah that's fine and all but i cant do that from the quick menu. I only see that option in the games & apps menu. I cant hit the guide button and do that mid game. It should be that quick and easy.

the only option then is to turn off auto updates in the settings before you start an online session.

you will have to check for updates periodically (or you will get a prompt to update when starting a game or app) but you won't have updates using your bandwidth while playing online.

@Alissa914

Sure I can invite you! Regarding the auto updates while your Xbox is off, yes my console does this when I have Instant-on enabled with auto updates.

When you say freeze during an update, do you mean freeze while it's downloading or while/after it has installed? It might be an idea if you wish to have more control over it to turn off auto-updates, the difficulty there being that you'd have to manually
update the console & games which may give issues when trying to play games which then turn out to need an update. That would in essence give you the ability to say "OK so I wanna play games at 6pm but don't want to do anything at 10am, so I'll update at 10am"

Mine has been doing the same thing I just turned off auto updates for games and apps and when I turn it off I unplug the HDD