# Automatic Updates
Automatic updates are disabled by default.
To verify this, run the status command.
```
root@photon-host-def [ ~ ]# rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
* ostree://photon-1:photon/3.0/x86_64/minimal
Version: 3.0_minimal.1 (2019-09-16T09:51:33Z)
BaseCommit: 28dc49ecb4604c0bc349e4445adc659491a1874c01198e6253a261f4d59708b7
LayeredPackages: createrepo_c rpm wget
```
## Enable Automatic Updates
1. Run the following command:
```
$ systemctl restart rpm-ostreed
```
1. To enable automatic background updates, edit the `/etc/rpm-ostreed.conf`, and include the below lines in the `Daemon` section:
```
[Daemon]
AutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage
#IdleExitTimeout=60
```
1. Run the following commands:
```
$ systemctl reload rpm-ostreed
$ systemctl enable rpm-ostree-automatic.timer --now
$ systemctl restart rpm-ostree-automatic
```
1. Verify that the automatic update feature has been enabled:
```
$ rpm-ostree status -v
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: last run 16min ago
```
1. On the server machine, perform another commit on the base tree.
Automatic updates are now enabled and will automatically update the host system.