swiftApp Submission Process -How to publish(live) iOS App

This tutorial covers all the necessary steps required to upload an iOS app to the App Store.

Setup provisioning profiles

In previous versions, setting up provisioning profiles was done manually. You generate distribution profile, download it and then distribute your app. This had to be done for every development machine which was extremely time consuming. However, in most situations nowadays, Xcode 8 will do most of this work for you. Make sure you sign in with the account which will be used for distributing the app and then simply select “Automatically manage code signing” in Targets -> General.

Archive the code

Once the provisioning profiles are all set, next step in the process of submitting the app is to archive your code. From the dropdown of devices and simulators select option “Generic iOS device”. Then, under “Product” menu select option “Archive”.

In case where the submission is an update to the existing app on the store, make sure that the build number is higher than the current and that the version number is different. For example, current application has build number 30 and version label 1.0. The next update should have at least build number 31 and version label 1.0.1. In most cases, you should add third decimal to your version in…