---
title: Roll Back a Live Update
description: Recover from a bad Live Update in your Capacitor or Cordova app with automatic and manual rollbacks in Capawesome Cloud.
---
# Roll Back a Release
A rollback reverts to a working bundle when a new one doesn't work as expected. The SDK supports **automatic** rollbacks (self-healing), and you can also roll back **manually** from the CLI or Console.
## Automatic Rollbacks
The SDK can automatically roll back to the built-in bundle shipped with the installed native app version if a new bundle fails to start. Since that bundle is guaranteed to run on the current binary, it's always a safe fallback. Configure `readyTimeout` and `autoBlockRolledBackBundles`:
=== "Capacitor"
```json title="capacitor.config.json"
{
"plugins": {
"LiveUpdate": {
"autoBlockRolledBackBundles": true,
"readyTimeout": 10000
}
}
}
```
=== "Cordova"
```xml title="config.xml"
```
`readyTimeout` is the deadline (in milliseconds): if your app doesn't call `ready()` within this window of starting, the SDK assumes the bundle is broken and reverts on the next launch. `autoBlockRolledBackBundles` prevents a rollback loop by blocking a bundle that has already triggered a rollback.
For this to work, call `ready()` as early as possible at app start — as soon as your bootstrap code has run without crashing:
=== "Capacitor"
```typescript
import { LiveUpdate } from "@capawesome/capacitor-live-update";
await LiveUpdate.ready();
```
=== "Cordova"
```javascript
document.addEventListener("deviceready", async () => {
await cordova.plugins.LiveUpdate.ready();
});
```
## Manual Rollbacks
Roll back to a previous bundle from the CLI or Console.
=== "CLI"
Use the [`apps:liveupdates:rollback`](../cli/commands.md#appsliveupdatesrollback) command:
```bash
npx @capawesome/cli apps:liveupdates:rollback
```
Select the app and channel, then choose the deployment you want to roll back to.
=== "Console"
In the [Console](https://console.cloud.capawesome.io/){:target="_blank"}, open the channel's history page, find the deployment you want to roll back to, and click **Rollback**. A new deployment is created that points to the selected bundle.
