# Chrome and Webview version mismatch after running tests for a while

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/chrome-and-webview-version-mismatch-after-running-tests-for-a-while/45910>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 28, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/chrome-and-webview-version-mismatch-after-running-tests-for-a-while/45910 "2025-07-28T16:10:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andres\_Felipe\_Losada](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/andres_felipe_losada/32/14252_2.png) [@Andres\_Felipe\_Losada](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Andres_Felipe_Losada)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/chrome-and-webview-version-mismatch-after-running-tests-for-a-while/45910/1 "2025-07-28T16:10:27Z")

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Hi all, I’ve been working on setting up a device-farm using the appium plugin found [here](https://devicefarm.org/) and I’ve been having this one issue with a relatively new Xiaomi phone. The issue happens every 2-3 of days, where I have to manually uninstall Chrome and the WebView applications from the phone, because they are a different version. The app I’m testing uses a WebView to serve the HTML content that I’m testing.

Do you all have any suggestions? I’ve tried disabling automatic updates, but I always end up having to uninstall the app from the phone and everything works.

Is there an automated way to install a chrome version and a webview version that actually match each other?

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**Author:** ![wreed](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@wreed](https://discuss.appium.io/u/wreed)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/chrome-and-webview-version-mismatch-after-running-tests-for-a-while/45910/2 "2025-07-29T01:13:29Z")

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Several good strategies here:

> **[Managing Chromedriver for Android Chrome and Webview Testing](https://appiumpro.com/editions/93-managing-chromedriver-for-android-chrome-and-webview-testing)**
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> Managing Chromdriver - four strategies you can use to resolve the error you get when upgrading to Appium 1.15.1 but using an older version of Chrome.