How do I disable VS Code of updating itself?

Question

I updated my VS Code at the morning and now at night it shows a badge on setting icon for install updates. As it seems VS Code update files arrives every second to second and it makes me to install updates (it makes you to close editor and when you want to open it, take a long time to install the new updates and then opens the updated version).

I know that being up to date is cool but forcing you to update twice a day is not cool for me, so is there any way to disable vs code from updating?

Answer 1

Have you tried updating JSON User settings to "update.mode": "none"

Navigation steps:

File > Preferences > Settings

References:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ

Following block of text is from the FAQ VS Code

How do I opt out of VS Code auto-updates?

By default, VS Code is set up to auto-update for macOS and Windows users when we release new updates. If you do not want to get automatic updates, you can set the update.channel setting from default to none.

To modify the update channel, go to File > Preferences > Settings and add the update.channel setting with the value "none".

"update.mode": "none" 

Answer 2

I had this problem for a long time and solved as in the steps in the screenshot. I set it to manual and it works:

The none option works so no clear difference between the two options.