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When in the play store page of the app press the 3 vertical dots at the top right and untick auto update
When you press update all it will prompt you if you want to include the pinned apps.
Most devices honor that.
On Googel Pixels I have seen that when you click ‘update all’ then, it updates really all, regardless.
Weird, my Pixel 6a has no problem using that setting