{"id":24006,"date":"2019-01-22T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24006"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:08:20","slug":"phased-vs-regular-update-adoption-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/22\/phased-vs-regular-update-adoption-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Phased vs. Regular Update Adoption Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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For several years now Apple has offered Phased Rollouts for app updates in the App Store. This lets you slow down the adoption of a new update to your users by limiting the number of users who are offered it as an automatic update each day.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I was very pleased to see the system work so well. The rollout was slow and measured. It let me find a few things I needed to fix before the update got out to all my users.<\/p>\n

Also remarkable to me is how quickly the ‘immediate rollout’ really is. With around 80% adoption in just a couple of days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, phased<\/a> releases<\/a> are not supported by the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-03-20): Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You can now release an update to your macOS app in stages by enabling Phased Release for Automatic Updates in App Store Connect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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