Hi everyone. I have a smartphone which frequently shows a message that my PDF Reader is out of date and prompts me to fix it by clicking on a button which generally sends me to Play Store and a page which asks me to install the PDF Reader. It's now got to the stage where I am wondering what to do. It seems that all these PDF Readers are similarly named and I now have several PDF Readers installed, and when I get a message that my PDF Reader is out of date or requires updating I don't know what to do. Should I try to uninstall all of them? I have Googled and Google says that Adobe Acrobat is good. I have Adobe Acrobat installed. Advice is now requested here on what steps I should take to rectify this annoying situation please. Thank you in advance, thoengthaied.

try and uninstall them all and install Adobe which is the main one. I also use Office suite Pro, but you don't need pro

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10 hours ago, thoengthaied said:

Googled and Google says that Adobe Acrobat is good.

Acrobat is good, yes, but about a year ago the app required some user permissions. I guess that's so you can edit files? I tend not to use apps, if it can be helped, that require those permissions. To just read and save pdf files, pdf viewer is a basic, no frills option. No permissions requested. Free version does the job.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pspdfkit.viewer

On 12/16/2024 at 1:01 PM, thoengthaied said:

when I get a message that my PDF Reader is out of date or requires updating I don't know what to do.

I get those messages when using certain apps. It's advertising, not system messages, so it's safe to ignore them. One PDF app, e.g. Foxit etc. is all you should usually need.

 

If your PDF reader needed updating, it would show up with all other updates in the Play Store (Android). The only way to stop seeing these "messages" would be to delete the apps that they show up in. The problem is, they can appear in otherwise useful and legit apps.

I discovered PDFgear recently.

Best free PDF reader I found in years, with lot of options. I avoid everything from Adobe, unless one want his pc messed up at one point in the future

19 hours ago, CallumWK said:

I discovered PDFgear recently.

Best free PDF reader I found in years, with lot of options. I avoid everything from Adobe, unless one want his pc messed up at one point in the future

Same here.