Preventing "apt-file" from updating its database with each "apt update"

Each time I run apt update or with the -m option(a.k.a --fix-missing) I see that apt-file is trying to update its cache too.I have a slow internet connection and it takes so much to download more than 100MB of apt-file caches and when I'm in a hurry this is quite annoying.Is there any way to disable that temporarily?