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Publish an iOS package to TestFlight (External Testers) |
Learn how to release to external testers in TestFlight from App Center |
distribute, stores, testflight, fastlane |
lucen-ms |
lucen |
02/10/2020 |
article |
ccc31919-b918-4cf5-8c07-8ab982cf6192 |
vs-appcenter |
[!INCLUDE Retirement announcement for App Center]
- From the Stores home page, select the external group to distribute to.
- Select Publish to Store in the upper-right corner.
- At the first step of the wizard, you need to upload your .ipa file. After the file has 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 on the store details page will show as Submitted. 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 TestFlight service.
- If a failure occurs with publishing by Apple, the status will change to Failed with the appropriate error message.