Methods and apparatuses pertaining to adaptive display partial update may involve determining whether partial update for an image frame is allowed and, responsive to a determination that the partial update for the image frame is allowed, determining whether the partial update is applicable to the image frame. Responsive to a determination that the partial update is applicable to the image frame, whether or not at least a difference between one or more properties of the image frame and one or more properties of a previous image frame exceeds a threshold may be determined. A partial-frame processing may be performed to partially update the image frame responsive to a determination that the difference does not exceed the threshold.