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No automatic upgrade is available from our website for this version.
06/10/2025
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If an error occurs while installing the upgrade, *Tails Upgrader* asks you to visit:
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An Internet connection
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A Tails USB stick
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The upgrade is much smaller to download than a full USB image.
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If another error occur while upgrading or if your Tails USB stick fails to start after an automatic upgrade, we recommend that you do a manual upgrade instead. See below.
02/06/2025
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In the **About Tails** utility, you can click **Check for Upgrades** to check whether a new version of Tails is available. This check is also done automatically every time you start Tails and connect to the Tor network.
02/06/2025
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<p>We estimated that, to actually reduce the
overall download size, it's only worth it to do 1 manual upgrade every year if
you apply all upgrades of Tails.</p>
08/13/2024
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<p>When doing automatic upgrades, the size of the download increases over time.
If you do a manual upgrade, the size of future automatic upgrades will become
smaller again.</p>
05/30/2024
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<p>You can also do a manual upgrade to reduce the size of future automatic
upgrades.</p>
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The advantages of automatic upgrades are the following:
02/27/2024
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there is not enough free space on the Tails system partition
12/21/2023
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The automatic upgrade is impossible for technical reasons (not enough memory, not enough free space on the USB stick, and so on). For example, if you get the following error message:
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[[file:///usr/share/doc/tails/website/doc/upgrade/error/install.en.html|upgrade/error/install]]
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½ hour to download Tails (<small class="remove-extra-space">[[!inline pages="inc/stable_amd64_iso_size" raw="yes" sort="age"]]</small>)
09/08/2023
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<h1 id="manual">Manual upgrade using <i>Tails Cloner</i></h1>
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<p>It is currently impossible to manually upgrade a Tails USB stick
while running from itself. This scenario requires creating an
intermediary Tails on another USB stick, from which to upgrade your
Tails.</p>
07/18/2023
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In some cases, it is impossible to do an **automatic upgrade** and you might have to do a **manual upgrade**. This page describes both techniques.
02/18/2022
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Tails includes an automatic mechanism to upgrade a USB stick to the latest version of Tails. When an automatic upgrade is performed, only an *upgrade package* is downloaded. The upgrade package contains all the changes made to Tails since Tails was first installed or was last manually upgraded.
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<h1 id="automatic">Automatic upgrade using <i>Tails Upgrader</i></h1>
10/26/2021

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