| title | description | keywords | author | ms.author | ms.date | ms.topic | ms.assetid | ms.service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Publish an iOS package to the App Store (Production) |
Learn how to release to App Store from App Center |
distribute, stores, fastlane, app store |
lucen-ms |
lucen |
02/10/2020 |
article |
ede8ed54-baed-4e9d-be2b-6606e41adaa2 |
vs-appcenter |
[!INCLUDE Retirement announcement for App Center]
- From the Stores home page, select the “Production” store created above.
- Select Publish to App Store in the upper-right corner.
- At the first step of the wizard, you must upload your .ipa file. After the file has a been successfully uploaded, you'll see details, like icon and version. Select Next.
- Enter release notes. Only plain text is supported and release notes must be longer than 10 characters. Select Next.
- Select Publish. The status for this release will show as Submitted on the store details page. Submitted means that the .ipa has been delivered to App Store Connect for evaluation.
- Once App Center has completed the hand-over of the app to App Store Connect, the status of the app changes to Published, and the app is available to download through Apple's App Store.
- If a failure occurs while publishing by Apple, the status on the store details page changes to Failed with the appropriate error message. For more information, see Apple's app review process.