Discord infinite checking for updates loop – how to fix?

If you’re a daily Discord user, you might start to feel quickly disconnected from your gaming circle when you’re unable to access this popular voice and text chat application.

While we’re always hot on covering problems with Discord such as Discord ‘stuck on starting’ fix, users have recently been finding it infinitely searching for updates and not launching the software properly.

If you need to know how to fix Discord checking for updates on loop, we’ve got you covered here.

How to fix Discord checking for updates loop

Here are some ways you might be able to stop your Discord application from being stuck in a loop of checking for updates.

1. Run Discord or its app update as Administrator
2. Disable proxy server
3. Delete Discord app data
4. Restart your console and reinstall the app

Run Discord or its app update as Administrator

A fairly common problem that Discord can often needs admin permission to apply new updates. If Discord is stuck in an irritating loop checking for updates, what might have happened is that although new updates have been downloaded, Discord cannot apply them without the console Admin permission.

• To run this app as an Administrator, you will first have to ensure that the app has been closed properly – don’t forget you can do this in task manager if you need to.

• Following this, right click on the Discord app and select run as Administrator from the drop down menu.

Disable proxy server

If your Discord won’t stop checking for updates, it might be due to the firewall disrupting the connection between you and the internet. One way to get around this is to try disabling the proxy server.

• Find Internet Properties in your system settings.

• Click on the Connections option, and take yourself to LAN (local area network) settings.

• From here you can unselect the option that says ‘use a proxy server for your LAN’. Click okay, then apply.

Delete Discord app data

If you run a lot of apps at once, you may have encountered a cache data problem before. Sometimes a backlog of cache can cause Discord to get stuck checking for updates on loop. Here’s how to sort that.

• Tress Windows + R keys to bring up a Run pop up.
• Type %appdata% and proceed to press enter
• In the Roaming folder that this brings up, find the Discord subfolder and go ahead and delete it.

Rebooting your computer after doing this should help Discord update smoothly if this was the problem.

Restart your console and reinstall the app

When in doubt, restarting your computer and deleting and reinstalling the Discord app should help in smoothing out any minor glitches that you might have been experiencing. By shutting down all of the processes of your computer, including the kernel, you can give it a clean start to try running applications such as Discord without any issues.

Final thoughts

Hopefully, these simple tips helped you to run your Discord without it repeatedly showing you that it’s checking for updates.

If you have any further problems with running your Discord app, or big issues come up like the Discord servers going down, we will be sure to have everything covered.