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App Store Connect¶
App Store Connect is Apple's developer portal for distributing iOS apps through the App Store, including submission, review, and phased release controls.
Phased release behavior (relevant to migration rollouts)¶
Per sources/2025-09-12-shopify-migrating-to-react-natives-new-architecture:
- Pre-determined gradual rollout schedule — once a phased release is started, iOS follows a fixed schedule. Developers cannot set an arbitrary percentage.
- Pause, but not reduce — when issues are detected, the rollout can be paused; however, users can still manually update to the new version from the App Store page. Paused state does not remove the binary's availability.
- ~24-hour approval lag for new submissions — hotfixes require a fresh submission, which may take up to 24 hours to clear review.
This asymmetry with Google Play makes iOS the higher-blast- radius platform during rollout: recovery is slower, control is coarser. Shopify responded by running Android ahead of iOS to get early signal on a platform where full rollback was cleanly possible. (See concepts/platform-asymmetric-rollout-control, patterns/phased-mobile-rollout-with-stability-tiers.)
Seen in¶
- sources/2025-09-12-shopify-migrating-to-react-natives-new-architecture — Shopify's rollout schedule explicitly engineered around App Store Connect constraints (no fine-grained % control, 24-hour hotfix approval lag).
Stub¶
This page only covers the rollout-control behaviors referenced in the Shopify migration source. Apple's full App Store Connect surface (TestFlight, in-app purchase configuration, review guidelines, distribution certificates) is out of scope.
Related¶
- systems/google-play-console — Play Store equivalent; has more fine-grained rollout control.
- concepts/platform-asymmetric-rollout-control — the operational consequence of the App Store's more-constrained control surface.
- patterns/phased-mobile-rollout-with-stability-tiers — the canonical rollout pattern this asymmetry shapes.