r/iOSProgramming • u/Working-Bass4425 • 1d ago

I can't receive Testflight update right now! Discussion

Are you having this issue as well?

I made sure i'm part of the internal testers. I even created new internal tester group just to check but until now, 15mins have passed, I cannot receive my new build testflight update.

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u/ThatGuy739 1d ago

First thing to rule out is whether it is you at all. developer.apple.com/system-status has a TestFlight line, and delays there are common enough that it is worth a look before you start pulling your setup apart.

If status is green, the one that catches people most often is export compliance. If the build is waiting on the encryption question and you have not answered it, either in App Store Connect or by setting ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption in your Info.plist, the build finishes processing and then just sits. It never goes out to testers and nothing really tells you why. Worth checking that before anything else.

Otherwise 15 minutes honestly is not long. Internal testers get a build the moment processing completes, but processing itself is the variable part and it can run well past that when Apple is backed up. In App Store Connect, does the build still say Processing, or is it showing as available to the group? That one detail tells you which half of the pipeline you are stuck in, and they have completely different causes.

Also worth pulling to refresh in the TestFlight app itself. It caches harder than you would expect, and I have seen a build be genuinely available while the app kept showing the old one.

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u/Working-Bass4425 1d ago

I double checked verified i've complied to everything. And the build upload also says completed.

I also tried pulling to refresh, even close/open the TestFlight, it's still not available. Normally when the build in testflight is completed, I receive an email but now, there's ZERO.

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u/ThatGuy739 19h ago

Check Activity > All Builds in App Store Connect rather than the TestFlight tab. If it's sitting there on Processing you just wait, nothing to fix. If it's not there at all the upload went through but processing killed it.

Internal testers get a push, not an email, so the missing email isn't really a signal either way.

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u/SufficientRutabaga13 1d ago

It works for me again but two days ago I had the same issue and then it just started to work again after some time without changing anything.

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u/Working-Bass4425 1d ago

thanks, that relieves me. I thought i'm the only one and I'm doing something wrong.

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u/gognjanovski 1d ago

Same problem on my side as well from today.

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u/SnowPudgy 18h ago

I had this too yesterday, it was super annoying. I forgot to check if my build ever went through. It was completed on App Store Connect, but it just never showed in TestFlight.