One of the saddest UX failures of Drupal (and now Backdrop) is when someone updates field display settings four or five times with no effect. Usually this is because they click the "Update" button thinking their settings will update, but they don't. Not unless they also hit "Save". And the "Save" button is usually below the fold, so the poor unsuspecting user may not even know there is a save button.

Secret save

To solve this problem, we should make the update button actually save, too.
Related issue: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/573
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Thanks, the /tmp folder was the problem. I moved it elsewhere and then the updated worked. Thanks again!
Update 1.35.1 appears to install but hasn't
Probably not the reason, but worth to do a quick check: Sometimes the update cache interferes, so if something's odd with updates - some module (or core) claims to have updated, but then...
Update 1.35.1 appears to install but hasn't
Nope, not touched any permissions!
Update 1.35.1 appears to install but hasn't