Prioritized application updates

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a computing system and from a computing device, a request for application update information for one or more applications installed on the computing device;
• determining, by the computing system and based on the request for the application update information, a set of applications that need to be updated, where each application from the set of applications is associated with a respective pending update;
• applying, by the computing system, a machine learning model to determine a respective update priority score for each application from the set of applications;
• sending, from the computing system and to the computing device, an indication of the respective update priority scores for the set of applications;
• receiving, by the computing system and from the computing device, an update request for at least one application from the set of applications, the at least one application from the set of applications being selected by the computing device based on the respective update priority scores;
• and
• responsive to receiving the update request, initiating, by the computing system, installation of the pending update for the at least one application from the set of applications.