Shipping a fix used to mean a bundled binary, an app store review, and a few days of hoping users would tap "update". With Capacitor Live Updates that loop shrinks to minutes. You push a new web bundle, devices pick it up on the next launch, and the next version of your app is already in users' hands. This is the long version of how that works. We'll walk through what live updates actually are, the three choices every team has to make when setting them up, the security model, the production patterns that keep you out of trouble, and a real-world end-to-end example. Cross-posted from the Capawesome docs blog . What Are Live Updates? A Capacitor app has two layers. The native layer is the compiled binary installed from the App Store or Google Play — the WebView, the native plugins, and the platform glue. The web layer is everything inside that WebView: your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and static assets. A live update is an Over-the-Air (OTA) update of the web layer only. The native binary stays untouched.…