diff --git a/metadata/io.ente.photos.fdroid.yml b/metadata/io.ente.photos.fdroid.yml
index b837d08e27..387cb7d8ca 100644
--- a/metadata/io.ente.photos.fdroid.yml
+++ b/metadata/io.ente.photos.fdroid.yml
@@ -2365,86 +2365,9 @@ Builds:
         en-US: Downloads assets (like ML models, release info and FAQs) from Ente's
           CDN
 
-  - versionName: 0.9.6
-    versionCode: 906
-    disable: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/1999#issuecomment-2217870453
-    commit: d55a29336f2dbff20e20a905e3c7c312deb39d15
-    subdir: mobile
-    submodules: true
-    sudo:
-      - apt-get update
-      - apt-get install -y gcc-multilib libc-dev make automake pkg-config libtool
-        nasm python3-jsonschema wget meson python3-jinja2 zip
-    output: build/app/outputs/apk/fdroid/release/app-fdroid-release.apk
-    srclibs:
-      - libsodium@ee009287afd480b60a9a4d75b19afdc0f705e9d9
-      - transistor-background-fetch@6feb11c93f4e5debf7792e7e7c444f3d62ac733c
-      - media-kit-libmpv-android-video-build@v1.1.5
-      - mpv@056072bf958ffeaadd2f5a69e37f3079f18d4ead
-    rm:
-      - auth
-      - cli
-      - desktop
-      - mobile/ios
-      - server
-      - web
-      - mobile/android/app/src/main/jniLibs/*/libtensor*.so
-    prebuild:
-      - export PUB_CACHE=$(pwd)/.pub-cache
-      - thirdparty/flutter/bin/flutter config --no-analytics
-      - thirdparty/flutter/bin/flutter pub get
-      - export file=$(ls .pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/media_kit_libs_android_video-*/android/build.gradle)
-      - export tag=$(sed -n -E 's|.*download/(v[0-9.]+)/.*|\1|p' $file | head -n 1)
-      - sed -i -e '/downloadDependencies/,/dependsOn/d' $file
-      - cd $$media-kit-libmpv-android-video-build$$
-      - git checkout -f $tag
-      - cd buildscripts
-      - sed -i -e 's/sudo//g' -e 's|./gradlew|gradle|g' *.sh
-      - sed -i -e '/download-sdk/d' download.sh
-      - sed -i -e '/mkdir -p deps/a mv $$mpv$$ mpv' include/download-deps.sh
-      - sed -i -e '/git reset --hard/d' patch.sh
-    scanignore:
-      - mobile/.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/background_fetch-*/android/build.gradle
-      - mobile/thirdparty/flutter/bin/cache
-    scandelete:
-      - mobile/thirdparty/flutter
-      - mobile/.pub-cache
-    build:
-      - export PUB_CACHE=$(pwd)/.pub-cache
-      - export FLUTTER=$(pwd)/thirdparty/flutter/bin/
-      - pushd $$libsodium$$
-      - ./autogen.sh -s
-      - ./dist-build/android-armv7-a.sh
-      - ./dist-build/android-armv8-a.sh
-      - ./dist-build/android-x86.sh
-      - ./dist-build/android-x86_64.sh
-      - popd
-      - cp $$libsodium$$/libsodium-android-armv7-a/lib/libsodium.so $PUB_CACHE/hosted/pub.dev/flutter_sodium-0.2.0/android/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi-v7a/
-      - cp $$libsodium$$/libsodium-android-westmere/lib/libsodium.so $PUB_CACHE/hosted/pub.dev/flutter_sodium-0.2.0/android/src/main/jniLibs/x86_64/
-      - cp $$libsodium$$/libsodium-android-armv8-a+crypto/lib/libsodium.so $PUB_CACHE/hosted/pub.dev/flutter_sodium-0.2.0/android/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/
-      - cp $$libsodium$$/libsodium-android-i686/lib/libsodium.so $PUB_CACHE/hosted/pub.dev/flutter_sodium-0.2.0/android/src/main/jniLibs/x86/
-      - pushd $$transistor-background-fetch$$/android/tsbackgroundfetch/
-      - gradle assembleRelease
-      - gradle publishToMavenLocal
-      - popd
-      - mv $$transistor-background-fetch$$/android/tsbackgroundfetch/build/outputs/aar/tsbackgroundfetch-release.aar
-        $PUB_CACHE/hosted/pub.dev/background_fetch-1.3.2/android/libs/com/transistorsoft/tsbackgroundfetch/1.0.2/tsbackgroundfetch-1.0.2.aar
-      - pushd $$media-kit-libmpv-android-video-build$$/buildscripts
-      - mkdir sdk
-      - ln -s $$SDK$$ ./sdk/android-sdk-linux
-      - PATH=$FLUTTER:$PATH bash bundle_default.sh
-      - popd
-      - mkdir -p build/media_kit_libs_android_video/output
-      - cp $$media-kit-libmpv-android-video-build$$/output/default-*.jar build/media_kit_libs_android_video/output
-      - thirdparty/flutter/bin/flutter build apk --flavor fdroid -t lib/main.dart
-    ndk: 25.2.9519653
-    antifeatures:
-      NonFreeNet:
-        en-US: Downloads assets (like ML models, release info and FAQs) from Ente's
-          CDN
-
   - versionName: 0.9.7
     versionCode: 907
+    disable: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/1999#issuecomment-2217870453
     commit: b740af68a50c117d971c56978169deb136aa5eac
     subdir: mobile
     submodules: true
@@ -2520,7 +2443,7 @@ Builds:
         en-US: Downloads assets (like ML models, release info and FAQs) from Ente's
           CDN
 
-AutoUpdateMode: Version
+AutoUpdateMode: None
 UpdateCheckMode: Tags ^fdroid-
 UpdateCheckData: mobile/pubspec.yaml|version:\s.+\+(\d+)|.|version:\s(.+)\+
 CurrentVersion: 0.9.7