"routine update" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when talking about regularly scheduled or expected updates or changes. For example: - Our company's IT department will be conducting a routine update of our computer systems next week. - Don't worry, the maintenance on your phone is just a routine update to improve its performance. - The airline issued a routine update of their flight schedule for the upcoming holiday season.
Executives describe the presentation as a routine update for workers.
Similarly, a top F.B.I. official late Wednesday gave a senior Congressional staff member what began as a fairly routine update on the status of the investigation.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, provides the new security in a routine update which reduces almost to zero the possibility of messages being intercepted or decrypted.
The figures detailing Iran's progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country's main nuclear plant at Natanz.
Engineers did not need to stay up all night in a mad scramble to make repairs, but, as one system administrator told me, the nature of the bug made this something more than a routine update.
Siemens became aware of the virus, Mr. Machowetz said, after one of its industrial clients in Germany, which he declined to identify, detected the virus during a routine update of its Siemens software.
There, aeroplanes might send occasional bursts of data to satellites (usually routine updates about the status of their engines).
Many iPhone 6 owners have only become aware of the issue when installing routine updates to iOS, Apple's operating system for iPhones and iPads.
I suppose you could view deleting dead friends as simply routine updating of the sort people have long done with their hard-copy address books.
The White House did request routine updates on the asylum application, but that "happens all the time" in high-profile cases, said Bill Strassberger, the I.N.S. spokesman.
That sentence was edited out of the article — in a routine updating, said Politico — after the blogger Andrew Sullivan highlighted it as a devastating indictment of a Washington media elite too cozy with and protective of its sources to report the unvarnished news.
