diff --git a/ts/updater/updater.ts b/ts/updater/updater.ts
index 5c57d7f69..ec48ffafc 100644
--- a/ts/updater/updater.ts
+++ b/ts/updater/updater.ts
@@ -38,9 +38,11 @@ autoUpdater.on(DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS, eventDownloadProgress => {
 });
 
 autoUpdater.on(UPDATE_DOWNLOADED, () => {
+  isUpdating = true;
   console.log('[updater] update downloaded');
   console.info('[updater] calling quitAndInstall...');
   autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();
+  isUpdating = true;
 });
 
 export async function start(
@@ -113,16 +115,17 @@ async function checkForUpdates(
   try {
     const [updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer, releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer] = getLatestRelease();
 
-    logger.info(
-      `[updater] checkForUpdates updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer ${updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer} releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer ${releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer}`
-    );
     if (!updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer || !updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer?.length) {
       logger.info(
-        '[updater] checkForUpdates updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer has not updated yet by the renderer process yet. Skipping update check'
+        '[updater] checkForUpdates getLatestRelease() has not been called by the renderer process yet. Skipping update check'
       );
       return;
     }
 
+    logger.info(
+      `[updater] checkForUpdates updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer ${updateVersionFromFsFromRenderer} releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer ${releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer}`
+    );
+
     if (releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer !== 'latest') {
       // we only allow pre-release updates if the release channel is alpha
       autoUpdater.allowPrerelease = releaseChannelFromFsFromRenderer === 'alpha';
@@ -145,13 +148,15 @@ async function checkForUpdates(
     // Get the update using electron-updater, this fetches from github
     const result = await autoUpdater.checkForUpdates();
 
-    logger.info('[updater] checkForUpdates got github response back', result);
-
     if (!result?.updateInfo) {
-      logger.info('[updater] no update info received');
+      logger.info('[updater] received no updateInfo in response from GitHub');
       return;
     }
 
+    logger.info(
+      `[updater] checkForUpdates received response from GitHub at ${new Date().toISOString()} version: ${result?.updateInfo?.version}`
+    );
+
     try {
       const hasUpdate = isUpdateAvailable(result.updateInfo);
       logger.info('[updater] hasUpdate:', hasUpdate);
@@ -187,6 +192,7 @@ async function checkForUpdates(
       await showCannotUpdateDialog(mainWindow, i18n);
       throw error;
     }
+
     const window = getMainWindow();
     if (!window) {
       logger.error('[updater] cannot showDownloadUpdateDialog, mainWindow is unset');
@@ -201,6 +207,7 @@ async function checkForUpdates(
 
     logger.info('[updater] calling windowMarkShouldQuit...');
     windowMarkShouldQuit();
+    logger.info('[updater] UPDATE_DOWNLOADED event should be emitted soon...', UPDATE_DOWNLOADED);
   } finally {
     isUpdating = false;
   }