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# How to gradually roll out Capacitor Live Updates[¶](#how-to-gradually-roll-out-capacitor-live-updates "Permanent link")

[Live Updates](/docs/cloud/live-updates/) are a powerful feature that allows you to deliver updates to your Capacitor app in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores. In order to ensure a smooth rollout of updates, it is recommended to gradually roll out updates to your users. This way you can minimize potential issues and collect feedback from a smaller group of users before rolling out the update to all users.

Deprecated 

This guide is deprecated. Please refer to the [Rollouts](/docs/cloud/live-updates/rollouts/) guide for the latest information.

## Introduction[¶](#introduction "Permanent link")

In this guide, we will show you how to gradually roll out updates to your users using the [Capawesome Cloud](/docs/cloud/). First, we will roll out a new bundle to a small percentage of users and then gradually increase the percentage of users that receive the update. For this, we will use the [Capawesome CLI](/docs/cloud/cli/).

## Create a bundle[¶](#create-a-bundle "Permanent link")

To create a new bundle, you need to use the [apps:liveupdates:upload](/docs/cloud/cli/commands/#appsliveupdatesupload) command of the Capawesome CLI. Once the bundle is created, it is immediately available to all users. To roll out the bundle to only 10% of users, for example, you can use the `--rollout-percentage` option as follows:

`[](#%5F%5Fcodelineno-0-1)npx @capawesome/cli apps:liveupdates:upload --rollout-percentage 10
`

Note that the `--rollout-percentage` option accepts a value between 0 and 100, where 0 means that the bundle is not rolled out to any users and 100 means that the bundle is rolled out to all users.

## Update a bundle[¶](#update-a-bundle "Permanent link")

To update an existing bundle, you can use the [apps:liveupdates:rollout](/docs/cloud/cli/commands/#appsliveupdatesrollout) command of the Capawesome CLI. In order to increase the rollout percentage, you can use the `--percentage` option as follows:

`[](#%5F%5Fcodelineno-1-1)npx @capawesome/cli apps:liveupdates:rollout --percentage 30
`

In this example, the bundle is now rolled out to 30% of users. You can always see the current rollout percentage of a bundle in the [Capawesome Cloud Console](https://console.cloud.capawesome.io/).

## Conclusion[¶](#conclusion "Permanent link")

By gradually rolling out updates to your users, you can minimize potential issues and father valuable feedback from your users. If you have any questions, just [create a discussion](https://github.com/capawesome-team/capacitor-plugins/discussions/new/choose) in the GitHub repository. Make sure you follow [Capawesome](https://twitter.com/capawesomeio) on X so you don't miss any future updates.

June 8, 2026 

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