{"id":47812,"date":"2025-05-19T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47812"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:12:34","slug":"slow-testflight-beta-app-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/19\/slow-testflight-beta-app-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow TestFlight Beta App Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chockenberry\/114518977136160810\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chockenberry\/114518977136160810\"><p>We&rsquo;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.<\/p><p>While Apple is doing everything it can to maintain the tight control it has over the App Stores and a huge revenue stream, we&rsquo;re out here just trying to get some volunteers to test our software. And failing.<\/p><p>This is bullshit that no developer on any platform should have to deal with. Bureaucracy for its own sake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests\/\">Apple Still Sitting on Entitlement Requests<\/a><\/li>\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<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"slow-testflight-beta-app-review-update-2025-07-21\">Update (<a href=\"#slow-testflight-beta-app-review-update-2025-07-21\">2025-07-21<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@vandal\/114891901598398427\">Luc Vandal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@vandal\/114891901598398427\"><p>I know it&rsquo;s been said countless times, but it&rsquo;s still absurd that TestFlight builds take longer to get approved than App Store releases.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Right now, the only practical way to ship a hot-fix is to submit an App Store release and hope for the best.<\/p><p>Ideally, I&rsquo;d send a TestFlight build to users that reported an issue, confirm the fix, then submit to the App Store. But that workflow just isn&rsquo;t reliable.<\/p><p>It feels like Apple assumes TestFlight is only for feature betas, not for streamlining bug fixes or supporting users more effectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"slow-testflight-beta-app-review-update-2025-08-08\">Update (<a href=\"#slow-testflight-beta-app-review-update-2025-08-08\">2025-08-08<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/114993814890110519\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/114993814890110519\"><p>Maybe I&rsquo;m crazy, but it seems like if I bust my butt for a day and half to workaround a bug (technically multiple bugs) in Apple&rsquo;s beta OS, I shouldn&rsquo;t have to wait 2+ days to get that fixed build to my beta users because of TestFlight review.<\/p><p>Such low-hanging fruit to improve developer relations.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: We&rsquo;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&rsquo;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-05-19T19:26:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"2fdf668c-8891-4913-8933-ba89301f62af","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-08T16:12:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AL99mjIiRSROJM7qJMB9irw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,39,2598,71,2016],"class_list":["post-47812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-programming","tag-testflight"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48832,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47812\/revisions\/48832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}