When you update the theme, any changes you’ve made to css and php files will be gone. To avoid re-applying your changes after updating, you can use child theme.
A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying an existing theme as the changes in it won’t be affected by the updates. We include a child theme package ready that you can get within the main download folder named upscale-child. Upload the package after installing the theme.