{"id":34107,"date":"2021-11-08T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34107"},"modified":"2022-10-17T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:29:38","slug":"testflight-for-mac-officially-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/08\/testflight-for-mac-officially-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"TestFlight for Mac Officially Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/11\/03\/testflight-for-mac-launches\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/11\/03\/testflight-for-mac-launches\/\">\n<p>Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=0bemba6j\">today informed developers<\/a> that they can invite people to try out early versions of Mac apps prior to release using the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/testflight\/\">TestFlight platform<\/a>, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2021\/08\/24\/testflight-for-mac-beta-available-developers\/\">end of a beta test<\/a> that&rsquo;s been ongoing since August.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/08\/testflight-finally-coming-to-the-mac\/\">TestFlight Finally Coming to the Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/where-is-testflight-for-mac\/\">Where Is TestFlight for Mac?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"testflight-for-mac-officially-launches-update-2022-10-06\">Update (2022-10-06): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1577920234215833600\">Drew McCormack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1577920234215833600\">\n<p>Anyone ever used TestFlight for Mac? First time we&rsquo;ve tried it, and seems like there&rsquo;s nobody home. Already two days in the beta app review queue. (On iOS, the app was through beta review in about 30 mins)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antons\/status\/1577926206271328257\">Anton Sotkov<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antons\/status\/1577926206271328257\">\n<p>We use it. It always takes way longer than iOS, usually one to two days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/palmin\/status\/1577935914948562946\">Anders Borum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/palmin\/status\/1577935914948562946\">\n<p>Apple also set themselves up for extra work by doing TestFlight review on every build and not just the first with a new version number [like on iOS].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"testflight-for-mac-officially-launches-update-2022-10-11\">Update (2022-10-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1579371330511998977\">Drew McCormack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1579371330511998977\">\n<p>After 6 days waiting in the queue for beta review in the Mac App Store, we are giving up and going back to our off-store testing. Not a great way to endear the Mac App Store to developers.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we have started getting those weird rejections too. Last one was &ldquo;Where is the feature X?&rdquo; where feature X was a feature we had never heard of.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"testflight-for-mac-officially-launches-update-2022-10-17\">Update (2022-10-17): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1581990776820539392\">Drew McCormack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmccormack\/status\/1581990776820539392\">\n<p>Would love to tell you how well TestFlight in the Mac App Store is working for us, but have yet to get a single build through review. Have been leaving each one for a week, but they stay in &ldquo;Waiting for Review&rdquo;, at which point I have to move on to the next beta build.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macguru17\/status\/1582106318374023168\">Max Seelemann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macguru17\/status\/1582106318374023168\">\n<p>For us the first build in a version takes about a week (last one 4 days), successive ones were a few hours (half day or so). Very annoying still, compared to iOS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple today informed developers that they can invite people to try out early versions of Mac apps prior to release using the TestFlight platform, marking the end of a beta test that&rsquo;s been ongoing since August. Previously: TestFlight Finally Coming to the Mac Where Is TestFlight for Mac? 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