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Apple APP how to get on the App Store, many novices are not very clear about this, in order to help you solve this problem, the following editor will explain for you in detail, people with this need can come to learn, I hope you can gain something.

The following describes the complete process of applying for an ios certificate and uploading a packaged ipa to appstoreconnect.apple.com for TestFlight testing and then submitting it for approval!

Stupid step process, beginners can also quickly master the operation of iOS on the shelf!

The App Store audit on shelves is carried out in 7 steps.

1. Install the auxiliary software Appuploader of iOS.

2. Apply for iOS Publishing Certificate (p12)

3. Apply for iOS release description file (mobileprovision)

4. Pack ipa

5. Upload ipa to iTunes Connect

6. Install TestFlight to iPhone for testing.

7. Set the information of APP to be submitted for review

Basic requirements on shelves

1. Apple developer account (apply for a tutorial on Apple developer account if you don't have an account yet)

2. Developed APP

Download and install the auxiliary software Appuploader of iOS

Appuploader download link

Appuploader can assist in directly applying for iOS certificate p12 in Windows, linux or mac systems, and uploading ipa to App Store.

Convenient and fast, with the use of this tutorial, you can quickly master how to test and get on the shelf!

After downloading the package, decompress it and use it directly without installation.

Apply for iOS publishing certificate (p12 file)

Issue certificate for shelves, certificate has p12 and mobileprovision two files, matching use, first apply for p12!

2.1.After logging in to the appuploader software with the Apple developer account, select the certificate to enter, and click on the lower right corner + ADD to select

Type: drop-down Select publish Certificate

Certificate name: no Chinese, not too long, feel free to set it

Mailbox: at will

Password: the password of the certificate, such as setting 123, does not have to be very complicated, remember it well and use it when packing, it is very important

Apply id: there is no need to choose here

Click ok to create.

Note: a maximum of 3 certificates can be applied for by iOS. If the account already has 3 certificates, an error will be reported (as shown below)

P12 has a quantity limit, but can be used for public use! That is, a p12 can correspond to countless description files (mobileprovision) to form countless sets of certificates on the shelf of different APP!

Can use the previous application, can also delete the previous release certificate, re-create, will not affect the app that has been on the shelf.

2.2.After the creation is successful, find the newly created publishing certificate (iOS Distribution is the publishing certificate. If you have seen the expiration time or ID before, you will know which one is newly created)!

Click on the p12 file, download and save the .p12 certificate file to your computer.

Third, create an iOS release description file (.mobilepublication file)

Click BACK in the lower right corner, return to the home page of Appuploader, and select the description file to enter.

Add an application id before applying for the ios description file (skip this step if you have previously added the application id that you want to use)

Application id: also known as package id,appid,BundleID, package name, each packaging platform is called differently!

Click on the lower right corner + ADD, in the application id item, click the drop-down triangle symbol to see the previously added record!

For the first time or need to put on another project app, you need to create a new application id!

See the following steps to add

3.2. to add a new application ID, click add Application id! (different APP needs to write different applications id is equivalent to app ID card)

Tip again: if you have added before, you want to use the previously added application id, you can skip this step, do not add!

Application id: three-stage format, such as app name is Taobao, can be written as com.app.taobao, free to write! Can't repeat it! With uniqueness @

Name: numbers or letters, free to write, not in Chinese, can not be repeated.

Click ok to add!

Click ok as long as there is no pop-up error report is added successfully, there are no other tips!

Be careful! Be careful! Be careful! To check whether the newly added application id has been added successfully, close the window first, and then click + ADD in the lower right corner to enter the drop-down application id to check whether the newly added application id exists.

If you add an error (the application id is unique and may be added repeatedly or someone else has used the application id), the solution is to check whether you have already added it, or to modify the application id and then add it.

The application id added to AU software only has the default permission. If you need to activate push notification, Apple pay and other permissions, you need to configure it in Apple developer Center!

Application id can also be added in Apple developer Center, and it is the same interworking in au and developer Center!

Apple developer Center add Application id and configure related permissions tutorial

3.3.After adding application id successfully, click + ADD in the lower right corner to enter the add interface!

Type: drop-down and select profile for distribution

Application id: select the corresponding application id (also known as package id,appid,BundleID, package name)

Certificate: just select all

Devices: the release version does not need to select a device.

Enter the name: no Chinese, feel free, 123 and so on, be careful not to be the same as the name you applied for before), click ok to create.

Select the newly created release description file (the type of iOS Distribution is the release description file, find the name of the input you just created), click Download to download and save to your computer

Apply for p12 and mobileprovision these two iOS certificate files can go to package!

4. IOS package IPA

Each developer tool packages the tutorials according to the platform they use, and the certificates are all used the same.

Here are several platform packaging tutorials, corresponding to their own use of the platform to see, not written platform if you can not ask for technical support.

Happy App platform package website tutorial

HBuilder Packaging tutorial

APICloud Packaging tutorial

Phonegap Packaging tutorial

Xcode Packaging tutorial

APPcan Packaging tutorial

Chameleon Packaging ipa tutorial

Here, take the HBuilder platform as an example

Open the HBuilder tool, select the developed project, click release, and select release as the native installation package.

4.2.Select iOS packaging, supported device types (you can choose to support iPhone and ipad), and choose to use Apple certificate

AppID: consistent with the description selected when applying for the certificate. Mobilization (also known as package id,appid,BundleID, Application id, package name)

Profile file: choose to upload configuration file. Mobileprovision

Private key certificate: uploading .p12 file

Private key password: enter the password to create the p12 setting.

Then click package.

4.3. after the package is successful, download and save ipa to your computer, and next upload ipa to App Store backend.

5. Upload ipa to App Store

Log in to iTunes Connect before uploading ipa, and click my APP to create an APP

Https://itunesconnect.apple.com/login

5.2.Click the + number in the upper left corner to select the new APP and select the platform iOS.

Application name: name of APP

Language: APP language, Chinese or English.

Package ID: (apply id, appid and package name, which should be consistent with the one used for the certificate application)

Sku: can't write Chinese, just make one up with pinyin and identify it. If app is called Taobao, enter taobao.

User access: select full access

Create APP backend, other related information need not be set up for the time being, go to the next step to upload IPA file!

5.3. Configure dedicated password for uploading

Because of a mechanism of Apple, you need to create an APP password, app-specific password, and configure it to the Appuploader software before uploading it!

Open the website https://appleid.apple.com/zh_CN

Log in to the Apple developer account

Log in to find the security project and click generate dedicated password.

Feel free to enter password tags, 123, etc., and so on.

Click create and generate. (note that the password label is not a private password, but a string of passwords generated by Apple system.) the private password is the password like this. Copy this password and open Appuploader.

Click on the upper right corner, select Settings, copy the upload password, check to save the password, click Save to save, and then go back to submit ipa upload to upload normally.

Enter the private password, click OK to save, and then click the single ipa button to submit

5.5.Select the ipa package you just packaged

5.5Appuploader will automatically upload your IPA. If a large package needs to be uploaded for a period of time, when the following prompt appears (packages were uploaded successfully progress bar is blue), the upload is successful.

If the progress bar red indicates that the upload failed, use the link below to find a solution, or add technical support solutions.

Upload solutions to common errors in ipa

5.6 go to the background to view the uploaded version after the upload is successful.

The packages were uploaded successfully progress bar is blue. After the ipa is uploaded successfully, log in to the iTunes Connect https://itunesconnect.apple.com/login backend to view the uploaded ipa.

Go to APP, click activity, and all the build options (shown in the following figure). The build version that has been successfully uploaded will be displayed here, and if the ipa package has no problem, it will show that it is being processed!

If the version does not appear or the refresh page version disappears, please check the link below to resolve

Ipa was uploaded successfully, but there is no build solution for the iTunes Connect backend.

6. Install the iPhone in TestFlight or add udid to test

If you have been packaged and tested before you put it on the shelf, you can skip the test and submit it for review in the next step!

The significance of the test is to first take a look at the operation of APP, whether there is bug, whether the information has been improved!

If there is no problem with the test, then submit it for review, otherwise it will be a waste of time to submit it for approval.

There are two ways for iOS real machine testing to write a tutorial separately because it is too long. After testing, return to this tutorial and continue to submit it for review!

1. TestFlight test, directly test the ipa version that has just been uploaded to the App Store backend! (you need to install the TestFlight software on the iPhone and add the Apple account for the relevant tests in the App Store background.)

TestFlight real machine test installation tutorial

2. Add device udid repackage ipa installation test! (you need to obtain the udid of the device, reapply for the iOS certificate and install it directly to the phone for testing.)

Add device udid Real Machine Test tutorial

7. Set up APP information to be submitted for review

7.1.After ipa uploading and testing, configure the App Store background information!

In the App Store item, first select the first APP information, which needs to be set in two places.

Privacy policy URL: you can directly fill in our official website http://www.applicationloader.net/ or our own website!

You can also refer to this tutorial to make a formal privacy policy link.

Privacy Policy Link template tutorial

Subtitle: can be written or not written

Category: choose according to your own APP type.

7.2. Choose the second item on the left and the range of sales

Price schedule: free APP is set to free, and app with a fee is set on a case-by-case basis.

Scope of sales: if you just go to China, you can choose China, or you can choose all regions, with little impact, set up good storage.

7.3, select the third item on the left to submit for entry, this page needs to set up several pieces of information, step by step.

Set the APP screenshot first

Open the app installed during the real machine test, and take a screenshot of the app page you want to display (up to 10 screenshots, usually three or four screenshots will do)!

6.5in (must) is a screenshot of x series bangs iPhone phone (iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR), the size is 1242mm 2688, if there is any difference, use ps to adjust the screenshot before uploading!

If you don't have an iPhone, please see the tutorial p below and upload it.

If there is no iPhone real machine, use ps to make screenshot tutorials for iPhone series mobile phones.

5.5in (required) is not a screenshot of Liu Haiping's iPhone phone (iPhone5, 6, 7, 8 these models), the size is 1242 '2208, if there is any difference, use ps to adjust the size before uploading!

12.9 inch ipad screenshot (such as app does not support ipad do not need to upload! ), the second and third generation dimensions are both 2048 * 2732!

App preview means video, and you don't have to upload it.

7.4. Drop down and set the propaganda words, descriptions and keywords of app

Promotional text: an introduction to a sentence from APP (if you don't know how to write it, go to App Store to search for your peer's app reference)

Description: detailed introduction of APP

Keywords: search your app keywords, you can set multiple keywords, multiple keywords are separated by commas in English status

Technical support URL: can be set as the company website personal website, no website directly set up our official website can also be http://www.applicationloader.net

7.5. Click the + sign next to the build to select the previously uploaded version, (if there is no + sign, please see the tutorial below to see the problem)

AU uploaded ipa successfully, but there was no build problem at the backend.

If you have previously selected a version, to select the newly uploaded package, move the mouse to (the red circle below), click the red delete button, and then click the + sign to select the version.

App Store icon generally choose the ipa build version will automatically appear, do not need to set!

Copyright is set according to the format, which can be written with reference to the format. ©+ APP name or company name such as ©Household

The version is the version number that is displayed on the shelf, which does not have to be the same as the ipa version you uploaded.

For example, the uploaded ipa version is 2.1.0, and the version can also be set to 1.0.

Then click the graded edit button to proceed to the next setting.

7.7.The grading option is selected according to your own app situation.

7.8. If app has login function, be sure to provide an account for Apple to review and test. If app does not log in, check it out.

Fill in the contact information and note that the phone number is preceded by + 86 before the phone format.

7.9. All the information is set up in this way, stored, click submit for review, and go to the next step.

7.10. The information shown here is selected according to the type of app, different options, and according to your own app.

There are usually three choices.

Export compliance information: generally choose no

Content copyright: generally choose no

Advertisement identifier: if APP has the option to advertise yes, no

Then submit, show as waiting for review, patiently wait for Apple to review, the initial submission of 1-2 days for results.

7.11 submit an audit back to my APP check will indicate that you are waiting for an audit, the audit is sometimes very quick for a day or two, or it may take a few days, often log in to see the audit situation, or read email prompts.

If it becomes available for sale, congratulations on getting on the shelves!

7.12. Follow-up problem handling of on-shelf audit

When Apple returns the audit results, if it is available for sale, it is successful. The newly launched APP will be synchronized to App Store within 48 hours. If the search is not patient for the time being, wait!

The instance APP has been successfully launched.

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