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App Store Distribution & Marketing App Store Connect
thinkcomp OP
Created 1w
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App Store Connect does not work. These forums do not work. Xcode does not work. Mac OS 26 navigation bars do not work. It's getting a little frustrating.

App Store Connect: "Unable to Submit for Review To submit your items for review, add an app version for the selected platform." How? I added a new app build (are "builds" and "versions" the same, I thought they were different, but why would I create a new version of my product?) and submitted it for review. It did not take the "Ready for Review" subscription items with it. They're stuck in a separate draft review. There is no control anywhere to "add an app version." Useless error, pathetic UI, designed by people who have never used this product themselves before, clearly.

These forums: Try searching for "Unable to Submit for Review To submit your items for review, add an app version for the selected platform." Get a 403 Forbidden error. Fun. Very useful.

Xcode does not work. Spent a good part of my day debugging why Xcode will automatically mask Mac OS 12 icons when there is no Mac app icon specified in an asset collection in a Catalyst context, but will not mask the icon when there is a Mac icon specified. There's no messaging, no warnings, no errors, no nothing. It just does random things. The entire Catalyst idea is nice in theory but there are gotchas like these everywhere. Should you build for iOS, Mac, or iOS + Mac? The answer is "Good luck."

Mac OS 26 navigation bars do not work. I'm getting black text on black backgrounds, white text on white backgrounds, sometimes, depending on whether a view loads. Seems like another Apple bug.

Support is useless as always, and my record on these forums so far is that no one answers any of my questions. So I'm not sure why I bother. But maybe something I've written will help someone.

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Claude31 OP
1w

my record on these forums so far is that no one answers any of my questions.

I do not read any question in your post, just definitive statements. Did I miss something ?

If you want to get answers, you should read this great post: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/706527

Wish you a good day.
thinkcomp OP
1w

"How?" is a question. Rhetorical, perhaps, because it is clear that Apple has no interest in making App Store Connect a coherent piece of software. As I said, "no one answers any of my questions." So I came here with low expectations.
LedTee OP
1w

Builds and versions are different things. You can have multiple builds of the same version. XCode will not let you upload a version that is already been uploaded if the build numbers are the same.

I get your frustration, but trust me - this stuff works, and it works well. You just need to educate youtself on how to use it.
thinkcomp OP
1w

Here's a screenshot.

I'm a pretty "educated" person. If I can't figure this out, I'm guessing most people can't figure this out.

thinkcomp OP
1w

Here's another screenshot of the forum error.

"this stuff works, and it works well"

You can't be serious.

Claude31 OP
1w

To submit your items for review, add an app version for the selected platform.

My understanding is that all 3 items should have the same deployment version on MacOS. Is it the case ?

Could you explain what search on the forum returned error 403 ? 403 is returned when the client is not permitted access to the resource. So may be you had to authenticate again on the forum ?

I tried a similar search and got the expected answer:
thinkcomp OP
1w

https://developer.apple.com/forums/search?q=%22Unable+to+Submit+for+Review+To+submit+your+items+for+review%2C+add+an+app+version+for+the+selected+platform.%22
thinkcomp OP
1w

See also...

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/838465
Claude31 OP
1w

@thinkcomp error 403 seems due to the number of chars in the request. I suppressed the last (platform) and it worked. I just let plat, it worked, but platf failed.

I tested on Chrome, exact same behavior.

Is there a limit at about 100 chars on the forum backend, to avoid trojan horse in request or avoid too complex requests ?

Tested with a dummy search text of 103 chars

Thisisadummyreqjusttohavemorethan80charactersandseeiftheserversreplieswith403errorandmorecharstotestfor

In fact fails at about 102 chars. Removing the last char (r) it works.

Exactly the same on Chrome.

Also found that there are verifications on the payload: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26506575/what-causes-a-403-error-when-the-url-payload-contains-request

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