diff --git a/app/flatpak-builtins-update.c b/app/flatpak-builtins-update.c
index 22e7937d..5d13c2e1 100644
--- a/app/flatpak-builtins-update.c
+++ b/app/flatpak-builtins-update.c
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ flatpak_builtin_update (int           argc,
       if (!flatpak_transaction_is_empty (transaction) &&
           !flatpak_cli_transaction_run (transaction, cancellable, error))
         return FALSE;
+
+      if (flatpak_cli_transaction_was_aborted (transaction))
+        return TRUE;
     }
 
   if (n_prefs == 0)
diff --git a/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.c b/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.c
index 489211d4..39ad7f1f 100644
--- a/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.c
+++ b/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct _FlatpakCliTransaction {
   gboolean disable_interaction;
   gboolean stop_on_first_error;
   gboolean is_user;
+  gboolean aborted;
   GError *first_operation_error;
 
   gboolean progress_initialized;
@@ -403,11 +404,17 @@ flatpak_cli_transaction_run (FlatpakTransaction *transaction,
 
   /* If we got some weird error (i.e. not ABORTED because we chose to abort
      on an error, report that */
-  if (!res &&
-      !g_error_matches (local_error, FLATPAK_ERROR, FLATPAK_ERROR_ABORTED))
+  if (!res)
     {
-      g_propagate_error (error, g_steal_pointer (&local_error));
-      return FALSE;
+      if (g_error_matches (local_error, FLATPAK_ERROR, FLATPAK_ERROR_ABORTED))
+        {
+          self->aborted = TRUE;
+        }
+      else
+        {
+          g_propagate_error (error, g_steal_pointer (&local_error));
+          return FALSE;
+        }
     }
 
   if (self->first_operation_error)
@@ -434,3 +441,11 @@ flatpak_cli_transaction_run (FlatpakTransaction *transaction,
 
   return TRUE;
 }
+
+gboolean
+flatpak_cli_transaction_was_aborted (FlatpakTransaction *transaction)
+{
+  FlatpakCliTransaction *self = FLATPAK_CLI_TRANSACTION (transaction);
+
+  return self->aborted;
+}
diff --git a/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.h b/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.h
index f7c6ffae..07a7dbb4 100644
--- a/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.h
+++ b/app/flatpak-cli-transaction.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ gboolean flatpak_cli_transaction_add_install (FlatpakTransaction *self,
                                               const char *ref,
                                               const char **subpaths,
                                               GError **error);
+gboolean flatpak_cli_transaction_was_aborted (FlatpakTransaction *transaction);
 
 gboolean flatpak_cli_transaction_run (FlatpakTransaction *transaction,
                                       GCancellable *cancellable,