steps-deploy-to-itunesconnect-deliver

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Deploy to App Store Connect with Deliver (formerly iTunes Connect)

Upload screenshots, metadata and binaries to App Store Connect (iTunes Connect) and submit your app for App Store review.

Description

Upload screenshots, metadata and binaries to App Store Connect (iTunes Connect) and submit your app for App Store review, using the fantastic deliver fastlane action. You can upload iOS, macOS, or Apple TV apps with the Step.

This Step, however, does NOT build your binary: to create an IPA or PKG file, you need the right version of the Xcode Archive Step, or any other Step that is capable of building a binary file.

Configuring the Step

Before you start using this Step, you need to do a couple of things:

• Register an app on the My Apps page of App Store Connect. Click on the plus sign and select the New App option. This requires an admin account.
• This Step requires an app signed with App Store Distibution provisioning profile. Make sure that you use the correct code signing files and the correct export method with the Step that builds your binary.
• Every build that you want to push to App Store Connect must have a unique build and version number pair. Increment either or both before a new deploy to App Store Connect.

To deploy your app with the Step:

1. Make sure that either the IPA path or the PKG path input has a valid value. The default value is perfect for most cases: it points to the output generated by the Xcode Archive Step.
2. Set up your connection depending on which authentication method you wish to use:
   • Use a previously set up Bitrise Apple Developer connection, set the Bitrise Apple Developer Connection to automatic (this is the default setting), api_key or apple_id.
   • Provide manual Step inputs: either with Apple ID or with the App Store Connet API key. Set the Bitrise Apple Developer Connection to off. Use only one of the authentication methods.
     • For API key: provide your API Key: URL (for example, https://URL/TO/AuthKey_something.p8 or file:///PATH/TO/AuthKey_something.p8) and the API Key: Issuer ID inputs.
     • For Apple ID: Apple IDs with 2FA are not supported. Fill out the Apple ID: Email and the Apple ID: Password inputs.
3. To identify the app, set either the App Store Connect App ID or the App Bundle ID. Note that while neither is marked as Required, one of the two MUST have a valid value.
4. If you want to immediately submit your app for an App Store review, set the Submit for Review? input to yes. Please note that if you do submit the app for review, the Step will be successful only if the submission is accepted by App Store Connect.

Troubleshooting

Make sure your Apple ID credentials are correct. Be aware that if you use two-factor authentication, you need to set up a connection with Apple ID.

Always make sure that Platform input is set to the correct value.

The Step can also fail if the Xcode Archive Step - or any other Step that builds your binary - did not generate an IPA or PKG with a app-store export method.

Useful links

• Deploying an app to App Store Connect
• iOS deployment

Related Steps

• Deploy to Google Play
• Xcode Archive & Export for iOS
• Appetize.io deploy

🧩 Get started

Add this step directly to your workflow in the Bitrise Workflow Editor.

You can also run this step directly with Bitrise CLI.

⚙️ Configuration

Inputs

Key	Description	Flags	Default
connection	The input determines the method used for Apple Service authentication. By default, any enabled Bitrise Apple Developer connection is used and other authentication-related Step inputs are ignored. There are two types of Apple Developer connection you can enable on Bitrise: one is based on an API key of the App Store Connect API, the other is the legacy method of session-based authentication with an Apple ID. You can choose which type of Bitrise Apple Developer connection to use or you can tell the Step to only use the Step inputs for authentication: - automatic: Use any enabled Apple Developer connection, either based on Apple ID authentication or API key authentication. Step inputs are only used as a fallback. API key authentication has priority over Apple ID authentication in both cases. - api_key: Use the Apple Developer connection based on API key authentication. Authentication-related Step inputs are ignored. - apple_id: Use the Apple Developer connection based on Apple ID authentication. If no app-specific password has been added to the used connection, the Apple ID: App-specific password Step input will be used. Other authentication-related Step inputs are ignored. - off: Do not use any already configured Apple Developer Connection. Only authentication-related Step inputs are considered.	required	automatic
api_key_path	Specify the path in an URL format where your API key is stored. For example: https://URL/TO/AuthKey_[KEY_ID].p8 or file:///PATH/TO/AuthKey_[KEY_ID].p8. NOTE: The Step will only recognize the API key if the filename includes the KEY_ID value as shown on the examples above. You can upload your key on the Generic File Storage tab in the Workflow Editor and set the Environment Variable for the file here. For example: $BITRISEIO_MYKEY_URL
api_issuer	Issuer ID. Required if API Key: URL (api_key_path) is specified.
itunescon_user	Email for Apple ID login.	sensitive
password	Password for the specified Apple ID.	sensitive
app_password	Use this input if TFA is enabled on the Apple ID but no app-specific password has been added to the used Bitrise Apple ID connection. NOTE: Application-specific passwords can be created on the AppleID Website. It can be used to bypass two-factor authentication.	sensitive
team_id	The app's Team ID on App Store Connect. NOTE: This field or the Apple ID: Team name is required when authenticating using Apple ID and the account is linked to multiple publishing teams. For example: 2040826
team_name	The app's Team Name on App Store Connect. NOTE: This field or the Apple ID: Team ID is required when authenticating using Apple ID and the account is linked to multiple publishing teams.
ipa_path	Path to your IPA file to be deployed. NOTE: This input or the PKG path is required.		$BITRISE_IPA_PATH
pkg_path	Path to your PKG file to be deployed. NOTE: This input or the IPA path is required.		$BITRISE_PKG_PATH
platform	The platform of the app.	required	ios
app_id	The app's Apple ID on App Store Connect. NOTE: This input or the App Bundle ID is required. Open the app's page on App Store Connect, click on App Information, from the General Information section, copy the Apple ID's value from here. It's a numeric value, for example, 846814360.
bundle_id	The app's Bundle ID on App Store Connect. NOTE: This input or the App Store Connect App ID is required.
submit_for_review	Wait for the submission to be processed and then submit the app for review for this specific version? If this option is set to no, the Step won't wait for the new version to be processed on App Store Connect and won't submit it for review automatically. If this input is set to yes, the Step will wait for the submission to be processed which might take a couple of minutes after the new version is deployed to App Store Connect. Note that in this case the Step will only be successful if the submission is accepted by App Store Connect!	required	no
skip_metadata	Don't upload the metadata. This will still upload screenshots.	required	yes
skip_screenshots	Don't upload the screenshots.	required	yes
skip_app_version_update	Don't update the app version for submission.	required	no
gemfile_path	Path to the Gemfile which contains the fastlane gem. If a Gemfile doesn't exist or doesn't contain the fastlane gem and if the fastlane version input isn't specified, the latest fastlane version will be used.		./Gemfile
fastlane_version	This option lets you specify a version of the fastlane gem to be installed. - latest-stable installs the latest stable version. - latest installs the latest version of fastlane including pre-release (release candidate) versions.		latest-stable
options	Options added to the end of the deliver call. If you want to add more options, list those separated by space character. Example: --skip_metadata --skip_screenshots
itms_upload_parameters	deliver uses the iTunes Transporter to upload metadata and binaries. If you are behind a firewall, you can specify a different transporter protocol using this input. Read more on Apple Transporter User Guide.
verbose_log	Enable verbose logging?	required	no

Outputs

There are no outputs defined in this step

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