How to publish Expo React Native App to Apple App Store (step-by-step tutorial)

[@kevinmarmet]

Literally could not find any other way to submit an Expo app without a Mac. It worked flawlessly, THANK YOU!

[@JSS-zv2cr]

You worked on windows ? I want to start an IoS app but My pc is a windows so I don't even know if it will work

[@AbdoulzakoAlioOumarou]

it works on windows, you just need vs code and the required librairies such as eas-cli @@JSS-zv2cr

[@taurohkea2169]

how? i use linux without any problem

[@Christopher-tq2vg]

This is hands down the best video to watch for app store uploading. Subscribe to this man!

[@kochcj1]

Thank you for taking the time to walkthrough this process so thoroughly and clearly. I can't wait to try it out with my first app!

[@barnabasnanna6845]

This was a lifesaver. Took all the anxiety away. Was able to submit my app AfroDraught successfully.

[@maxwellings6111]

Thank you so much for this tutorial (and the one for Play Store). Got my app up an running on both platforms now. Couldn't have done it without the videos. And I also love the straightforward style.

[@notjustdev]

Glad it helped!🙌

[@cliffvbajo]

This video and the other one (Android submission for expo apps) are both GOLD! Amazing tutorial.. very clear and concise! Thank you very much for making this video!!

[@aliarefjs]

This is the greatest video! I am watching this every-time I try to submit an app to app store :)

[@notjustdev]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the feedback! 🙌

[@haytammostaine5033]

I keep going back to this video! It's my point of reference!

[@aashirwadgupta1345]

Thank you for this knowledge with so much clarity and ease of presenting the things. Will share the app, once deployed.

[@samsilvaluebinder]

Thank you for these tutorials! I used this one and the play store one to get my app submitted on both platforms. This is my first react-native app and these videos made it so easy! THANK YOU!!!!

[@HarshitSharma-gm6iv]

One of the best videos of App Submission. Saved a lottttt of time for me. Thanks.

[@juliandurand__]

Today is December 30, 2024, this video worked perfectly for me! And I used the new React Native architecture with the latest version of Expo.

[@notjustdev]

Great to hear! 🙌

[@moraesluc4s]

Your tutorial was very important to help me, thank you so much mate!! Brazil 🇧🇷

[@josephmgift]

Thank you so much, wish me luck as I submit mine soon.

[@notjustdev]

Good luck!🙌

[@josephthomas4023]

Incredible video dude, so comprehensive 🔥🔥

[@notjustdev]

Thank you!🙌

[@MaxFey-v2d]

Very Many Thanks! Lukas. Learning has never been this easy! You got the talent. Keep it up!

[@Alphfirm]

Thank you so much! Fantastic overview to understand the process. Really appreciate you took the time for full deployment and waiting for approvals and everything

[@yolandajoseribasbastidas8460]

Thank you so much! You help me a lot with my first app on the apple store, thanks thanks!

[@kesterbelgrove818]

Thanks a million, I used this video to put my first app on the Apple app store. Then I used it again to update my app. Thanks so much for the clear video where you considered all aspects including updating. It is so complete thanks. Hope to see a new version of this video when changes are made to the procedures in the future.

[@dailydaisydog]

man you are amazing! the world is getting better due to people like you

[@mmshilleh]

I am impressed with this tutorial. Thanks for walking through every step which other tutorials dont do!

[@eddyv524]

Awesome video. Am about to release my first app so this video came in really handy. One question: When asked to upload the screenshots for various apple devices, how can you generate these screenshots without owning all these devices? I don't own a mac.

[@MrEntr0]

Great stuff. Usually I'm not commenting, but this content is worth it!

[@notjustdev]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@foodiofficial-pv9cs]

So helpful. Both this video and the android one was so needed. Wishing you all the best!

[@GigaFro]

Saved me. Really appreciated this content. :)

[@JacksonRogeroficial]

I really appreciated your tutorial video

[@thibaultpras1048]

Nothing to say expect that you're a beast, cheers man

[@brunotravesi7385]

You are great man, your videos are very helpful, send you a hug from mexico

[@hamaddev8340]

Thanks for this great tutorial, it will be even great if you create a video on how to prevent a user from accessing the app if not updated!

[@lukeverso]

Dude, I LOVE YOU. For real. Thank you for this video.

[@razzsawhoney2818]

A perfect all doubt cleaner video. Great work. Thank you.

[@amiiko232]

thank you so much bro, you got a new subscriber.

[@notjustdev]

Thanks for the sub!🙌

[@JacksonRogeroficial]

Awesome!!!!

[@JosephKyondera]

The best tutorial ever thank you

[@notjustdev]

You're welcome! 🙌

[@sohrabhossain9905]

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[@wisdomelue]

thank you so much for this, cant wait to release my first app!

[@BharathAnand-j7e]

Very nice tutorial, helped me get my app through; hopefully it gets approved !

[@notjustdev]

Thank you! I hope so too🚀

[@sputniq2828]

Just what I was looking for. Thank you

[@JordanSimai]

This video is clear, concise, and extremely helpful. Elite.

[@sgudia]

This is super useful. Thank you for making this. Adding tips on how to have source code versioned in GIT when releasing in appstore will make it even better.

[@notjustdev]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙌

[@dannyroberts4067]

Is anyone else not seeing your specific bundle id within the bundle id dropdown in the app store connect form? Around 10:17. I used the EAS submit cli as a workaround but I would like to know why he has his in the dropdown and I don't. Otherwise good video!

[@hopperdietzel]

Thank you so much ! Your videos are really useful, you got my like and subscription !

[@omogbaioleghe9900]

Super video. The best video on this topic by far

[@kanavanand849]

Thank you so much for the detailed video. Hope apple accepts my build soon, fingers crossed !

[@wilfredojsr]

Thanks for this video and sharing your experience 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@IvyCatholic]

I always come back to this video. one of my favorites for maintaining my app. any chance you can re-upload doing this again in 2023? things have changed a bit... in particular wondering best practices for over the air updating now! seems like EXPO is changing frequently

[@donatobaonguis4315]

Thank you for this video!!!! You guys rock!!!!

[@notjustdev]

Thank you! 🙌

[@shubhamsingh23]

Great video, please do an updated one for 2024 if anything has changed :)

[@mth6311]

Thanks for this video it helped me a lot. Although I'm struggling with the expo-publish. It isn't very clear what I have to do. Could you possible release a tutorial video demonstrating this because my app requires a weekly update and it will get annoying if I have to wait for a review each time

[@SYSPROAPP]

Thank you! I found it helpful

[@notjustdev]

Glad it helped!🙌

[@Bia-kb5cc]

This is amazing! Thank you very much, it helped A LOT!

[@andreweinhorn]

This is an extremely helpful video, thank you!

[@wellingtonchanda4067]

Thank you this tutorial helped me a lot.

[@easypz_app]

What a sweet guy, thank you so much for your help.

[@coleblender1998]

I have always thought that you needed XCode and therefore a mac to publish to the app store. From my understanding of this video, I should be able to publish to the app store using a windows computer correct?

[@joshuamwesigwa1101]

You the best men!🥳👌

[@mohammadalamri-nq1db]

This was so helpful. Thanks!

[@notjustdev]

Glad it was helpful!🙌

[@xjyian]

very nice demo ! LOVE IT ! by the way, you metioned that during the submission there have 2 issue rejected by apple, but how you prove that you able to call that coingecko? and 2nd issue you didnt mentioned in this video ... but how do we handle as well ?

[@lukasgrinevicius5868]

Both rejections were because Apple needed a proof that we are able to use CoinGecko API, so we just found a part in CoinGecko's terms of service where they state that other applications can freely use their API if certain criteria is met, took a screenshot of that and attached to Apple's Review Submission.

[@saminurrahman8244]

You are a gem! Thank you so much

[@mateoscarafia5110]

Thank you for this video!

[@notjustdev]

You are so welcome!

[@edisontang2484]

Hey thanks for the video! I saw that expo apps are really big, like 30 mb. Is it better to eject the app from expo and then publish it?

[@notjustdev]

I don't think ejecting will reduce the size significantly

[@N8X4TE]

Amazing video man, thank you

[@bryanjudelleramos2535]

very detailed and clear explanation. Thanks!

[@aashirsiddiqui177]

Great tutorial. My Expo app cant seem to pick the OTA updates :/ Even though there has been no changes to native modules. On the App Store it says 1.0.0 Ready For Distribution but my app.config.js says runtimeVersion 1.3.6. Could it be because of this? The command Im using is eas update -p ios --channel production. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[@nadavox2008]

thank you very much ! very well explained

[@alejandrocanavesi]

congrats and thanks for your time !!

[@abdulazizdeveloper7915]

You are literally the best

[@razzsawhoney2818]

Would love to see you ejecting expo app and encrypting with sth like Proguard or so. And then how to prepare the app for submission to playstore and appstore may be in a single video like this one. This would be a great help. Thank you.

[@davidcastillo7383]

Gracias por este gran video, pude realizar la publicación paso a paso. Gracias por tomarte el tiempo de realizarlo.

[@OverrideMC]

thanks dude nice video only thing when i try to do expo publish i get this: Your iOS app icon is missing or is an invalid format. The icon must be a 1024x1024 PNG image with no transparency. Please check your icon image and icon configuration in app.json.

[@isaacdepool7264]

Hi, did you get a solution?

[@LoganoutGm]

Hi, thanks for the video, it helped me a lot. Do you have a video talking about how to add Admob with Expo?

[@Corzhy0]

Amazing stuff... thanks guys

[@lucaspazsaffi1187]

Thank you very much. Really good video.

[@reyajulislam8967]

Very appreciate tutorial, Thanks a lot Bro!

[@nileshzemse]

Thank you so much, it helped a lot! :) :)

[@IvyCatholic]

Thanks so much for the video! Question: how can someone get screenshots of their app for the different sizes required in apple store and google play store? I am building my app on windows and therefore only have access to android emulators. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!!

[@lukasgrinevicius5868]

There are a lot of free websites where they provide you with all necessary tools to create those screenshots

[@fangzhongli9366]

I run into the same problem as you earlier. What I did to solve it was to open the app in web mode and adjusted the viewing device there in 'inspect', and Apple accepted them.

[@dannyroberts4067]

I bought a cheap 2017 mac for such cases, trust me it's easier

[@BNgema]

Just what i needed

[@notjustdev]

Enjoy

[@BNgema]

@@notjustdev Thank you

[@hasanahmed3411]

Thanks aloooooooooooot the video is really helpfull

[@notjustdev]

Most welcome 😊 🙌

[@LotfiOR]

Thank you!! Is there a similar video for Google play?

[@LotfiOR]

Ow I ve just found it. thank u so much

[@zainulabdinshaikh2758]

Thank you for the build....

[@algerr3952]

Is there any possibility to get the app as a standalone on my phone but not publish it on the app store?

[@sonwander1]

Hello! Thank you for the video! I have one question: did you have to use an Apple computer with X-code to do the whole thing? Can i use a machine with Ubuntu, for example to achieve the same goal?

[@user-nf2pw9ic7j]

same here, did it work for u with ubuntu ?

[@Rasmuskvejborg]

@@user-nf2pw9ic7j Wondering the same, facing issues with eas build on a Windows PC, dont know if this tutorial is Mac-restricted?

[@brunoravizzini8736]

Thanks! great tutorial!

[@KB-vf5jw]

one of the best videos outhere what about google play ?

[@Rasmuskvejborg]

He has another video about google play

[@vicenzomartinelli4521]

Thanks for this amazing content bro!

[@rexomiv7352]

Very detailed video and really helpfull

[@AMoktar]

Thanks for this great tut. Can I submit App to ios while I'm not the account holder? I'm admin on that account

[@lfeldmantutoring]

Awesome video, but got this error: "Error: eas.json is not valid [ValidationError: "submit.production.ios.ascAppId:" is not allowed]". Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

[@Alan-ps5iv]

Very useful. So expo-cli is now deprecated I noticed.

[@karimdakrouri]

Hi, quick question even though my app was built with EAS i can still use expo publish for quick updates? I am asking since i am on a free tier expo account i only have limited ios builds, so i dont want to waste them on minor updates, will save them unitl i finish testing completely then build.

[@notjustdev]

Yes, you can use Expo's "expo publish" command to quickly update your app even if it was built with EAS. "expo publish" allows you to update your app's JavaScript and assets without building a new binary, which means you can make updates without using up your iOS build limit. However, keep in mind that this command will only update the JavaScript and assets and won't affect native code changes.

[@karimdakrouri]

@@notjustdev even without changing the build number in app.json?

[@karimdakrouri]

@@notjustdev Also, does it work if my app is on testflight?

[@Rasmuskvejborg]

@@karimdakrouri Yes, it expo publish works onto testflight. And yes you dont have to change buildnumber.

[@theadityadeshpande]

Thanks, Great video

[@notjustdev]

You're welcome!

[@dashtiabubakir9182]

It's a great video, But one question ? for this process only need Mac ? Can I do same process in windows ??

[@lukasgrinevicius5868]

You can do the same on Windows as well!

[@vincentblue2455]

Thank you!

[@notjustdev]

You're welcome! 🙌

[@audrey-annjean-weisz4952]

Great video and love your smile! This will help me a lot! I had a quick question if you don't mind! Is it possible to target an app.production.json or a specific project from Expo per build/submission ? I think with `expo build` it used to be possible.. not sure about `eas` cli... My context: - I have two branches: develop and main which both have their own projects in Expo. - The develop branch has it's own app.json and main branch has it's own app.production.json. That being said, I would like to only submit to the IOS App Store Connect the builds/submissions from the main branch. Thank you a lot again for your help :) - Audrey - A fellow developer 🎉

[@isprojectsiot5967]

Hello, thank you very much for this video. I have a problem, after the eas build --platform ios command, when I try to enter my apple account, the verification code does not validate it and I cannot continue. Any suggestion about it?

[@shreyasdaware8542]

Do we need to run the eas build:configure command evertytime?

[@notjustdev]

no, only once to configure it. Later, you simply run eas build and other commands

[@suyashvashishtha4904]

Great tutorial bro .

[@omerkilincc]

Hello, I constantly get the "install pods" error during the build process for iOS. I built and published for Android, but I get an error for iOS.

[@adelashour3253]

thank you this realy helped!

[@notjustdev]

You're welcome!

[@vincenttanguayy]

Heyy awesome video, I love it. Do you guys think you can make some videos about React Native Maps