Slow TestFlight Beta App Review
We’ve entered day 10 of waiting for a TestFlight beta app review on macOS. Have tried all the tricks, like submitting new builds, but there has been absolutely no movement.
While Apple is doing everything it can to maintain the tight control it has over the App Stores and a huge revenue stream, we’re out here just trying to get some volunteers to test our software. And failing.
This is bullshit that no developer on any platform should have to deal with. Bureaucracy for its own sake.
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@Artem, I have to be fair (see my comment regards to Epic/Apple)....
WWDC keynote as of my comment is 3 WEEKS away. (Okay, three weeks minus 7 hours, and how much will be live?) And one the the three largest companies (it varies) in the entire world can't even manage app approval? Really?
<aybe their entire workforce took a month off because of WWDC. Oh, and if you mean something specific like WWDC, um, do that means macOS "whatever" -- my bet is on 16.0 -- will be in beta in about three weeks, have about 4-6 beta releases, and will be released (along with some new hardware) in October. Since it's the middle of May....
@Artem & @Dave
This does seem to be relevant to the Epic post, because even Apple's lawyers act like App Review is this mysterious black box that no one can quite understand or control. You just put an App in the box, open it up, and see if the App is alive or not.
This is why I say their arguments about the App Store are increasingly hypocritical. They can't act like theirs is the only possible method of safe software distribution on the one hand, and act like it's this mysterious force they have no control over on the other.
I’ve submitted a couple app updates that went in review and got approved i’d say within like 10 minutes recently. So fast it was impossible that they actually used and tested the app at all.
It’s great when the app update goes through quick, though I’ve also been stuck trying to push an app update before for ridiculous reasons and its so frustrating
Why are they wasting time reviewing test flight builds on macOS at all when it’s possible to directly distribute Mac apps outside the App Store? Why not just notarize the app. It’s good enough for production builds should be good enough for Beta builds.
