You work day and night to create your dream app. Finally, it's time to announce your app to the world. But don't know how to submit your app to the App Store?
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Submitting an app to the App Store can be a complex task. But with the help of this guide, things will get a lot easier. This is a detailed guide to help you submit your app to the App Store smoothly.
Without further ado, let's start right away.
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- 1 How to submit your app to the App Store
- 1.1 Create your Apple ID
- 1.2 Sign up for the Apple Developer Program
- 1.3 Log in to App Store Connect
- 1.4 Get your application ready for submission
- 1.5 Use App Store Connect to create an App Store listing
- 1.6 Upload App Store screenshots and previews
- 1.7 Upload using Xcode
- 1.8 Submitting an App for Review
- 2 finally said:
How to submit your app to the App Store
Create your Apple ID
When submitting an app to the App Store, the first thing you need to do is create your Apple ID . This Apple ID will be used to access all services offered by Apple.
Enroll in the Apple Developer Program
The next step in submitting your app to the App Store is enrolling in the Apple Developer Program . You can sign in to the Apple Developer Program with your Apple ID.
Membership in the Application Developer Program will provide the following benefits:
- Tools and resources needed to develop and distribute applications
- Provides access to beta software
- Full suite of advanced features
- App testing tool
- Expert Technical Support
- Application analysis tools and advanced features
Login to App Store Connect
App Store Connect is a website where you can manage everything you want to do with your app in the App Store. Sign in to App Store Connect with your Apple ID.
Get your application ready for submission
Before submitting an application to the App Store, you need to go through the application certification process. The process involves a human review of your app against the App Store Review Guidelines . Read this document carefully and make sure it follows the guidelines, as reviewers will judge your app against this policy.
In addition to the app store guidelines, make sure your app is bug-free. If a judge finds your app to be buggy, he/she will reject your app from the App Store. Therefore, testing is very necessary. Don't simply test your application. Execute tests under abnormal conditions such as low network, low storage space, older devices, etc. Test your app with the help of friends and family. TestFlight helps you invite testers and provide feedback before your app is released to the App Store. It allows to invite up to 10,000 testers using email id.
Create an App Store listing with App Store Connect
Follow the steps below to create an App Store listing
**STEP 1:** Sign in to App Store Connect.
Step 2: From the App Store Connect dashboard, select My Apps .
Step 3: Now, click on the '+' sign in the upper left corner and select **New Application**.
Step 4: Select the platforms where your application is available. Fill in any other information about your app, such as name, language, bundle ID, SKU, and user access. If you are not sure what to enter for this field, you can use the " ? " flag for more information. Click Create when done .
**Step 5: Select App Information from the left panel . **Localizable and general information for the app is now added, including subtitles and categories.
Define content permissions for your application.
Define an age rating for your app
Step 6: Now select Pricing and Availability from the left panel . Define pricing and other required details for your application.
Step 7: Next is App Privacy . Enter the Privacy Policy URL. Use an online privacy policy generator to help you get here.
Step 8: Next, select 1.0 Ready to Commit from the left pane . Scroll down, and in the Release section, select how the app will be released after it passes the certification process.
- Manual – Go to App Store Connect to publish the app.
- Automatic – publish the application automatically.
- Specific date - Schedule the application release date.
Upload App Store screenshots and previews
You must use images and videos to visually connect with users. To this end, the App Store allows adding previews and screenshots.
Previews are short videos from your app. Check – App Preview Specifications
Screenshots are images that illustrate the functionality of an application. Check – Screenshot Specifications .
Make sure to follow the specifications provided by the App Store to reduce the chances of your app being rejected.
The App Store allows adding previews and screenshots separately for 4 different screen sizes. You can add up to 3 app previews and 10 screenshots per display.
It requires us to provide ios app screenshots with various resolutions. If we don’t have so many devices to take screenshots, you can use the screenshot generation function provided by appuploder to generate screenshots: https://www.applicationloader.net/doc/ hot/screen-cap.html
3. After the screen capture is completed, pull it down, it will ask us to upload a build version:
but we found that the upload tool it officially provides can only be installed on a mac computer, here we do not use the tool it recommends, we still use the one mentioned in the previous step The appuploder is a tool to upload.
4. Switch to appuploder to upload ipa to appstore interface, click upload new file, the following interface will pop up, enter the account name of the Apple developer account and upload special password to upload ipa, as shown in the figure below:
It should be noted that the upload special password here is not your developer login password, but a special password. This special password is explained in the tutorial on the upload pop-up interface of appuploder. Just follow its tutorial to set the special password.
