diff --git a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte
index 7d4a101fee..7d14e57aba 100644
--- a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte
+++ b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte
@@ -1,18 +1,22 @@
 <script>
   export let isMigrationDone
   export let onMigrationDone
-  export let timeoutSeconds = 10 // 3 minutes
+  export let timeoutSeconds = 60 // 1 minute
+  export let minTimeSeconds = 3
 
   const loadTime = Date.now()
+  const intervalMs = 1000
   let timedOut = false
+  let secondsWaited = 0
 
   async function checkMigrationsFinished() {
     setTimeout(async () => {
       const isMigrated = await isMigrationDone()
 
       const timeoutMs = timeoutSeconds * 1000
-      if (!isMigrated) {
+      if (!isMigrated || secondsWaited <= minTimeSeconds) {
         if (loadTime + timeoutMs > Date.now()) {
+          secondsWaited += 1
           return checkMigrationsFinished()
         }
 
@@ -20,7 +24,7 @@
       }
 
       onMigrationDone()
-    }, 1000)
+    }, intervalMs)
   }
 
   checkMigrationsFinished()
@@ -41,6 +45,11 @@
   <span class="subtext">
     {#if !timedOut}
       Please wait and we will be back in a second!
+      <br />
+      Checkout the
+      <a href="https://docs.budibase.com/docs/app-migrations" target="_blank"
+        >documentation</a
+      > on app migrations.
     {:else}
       An error occurred, please try again later.
       <br />
diff --git a/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts b/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts
index 1662a6f225..fb3310619e 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts
@@ -23,16 +23,15 @@ const getCacheKey = (appId: string) => `appmigrations_${env.VERSION}_${appId}`
 export async function getAppMigrationVersion(appId: string): Promise<string> {
   const cacheKey = getCacheKey(appId)
 
-  let metadata: AppMigrationDoc | undefined = await cache.get(cacheKey)
+  let version: string | undefined = await cache.get(cacheKey)
 
   // returned cached version if we found one
-  if (metadata?.version) {
-    return metadata.version
+  if (version) {
+    return version
   }
 
-  let version
   try {
-    metadata = await getFromDB(appId)
+    const metadata = await getFromDB(appId)
     version = metadata.version || ""
   } catch (err: any) {
     if (err.status !== 404) {