Install old app versions from the App Store

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tcurdt OP

Created Feb ’22

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Is it possible to somehow install an older version from the Mac App Store?

We got a new release out. It has bug and I want to quickly allow the customer to test it and solve his pain of a non-working version.

Ideally I would just tell him "install the old version while we fix it" - but there doesn't seem to be a way to install the old version. Wasn't there at some stage?

I could add him as external tester - but that needs a review loop. Why oh why?

Adding him as internal tester doesn't seem right either. He is not "internal".

I am really worried about the options here. This is painful. What's the best way to deal with this?

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Answer 1

Claude31 OP

Feb ’22

AFAIK, there is no way to go back to old version on Appstore.

What you could do:

build a new release (increment build and version number) with the old code. That will be an interim version.
Once the build is accepted, you can propose on TestFlight for this customer alone.
Inform him that he/she can use the TestFlight version as an interim solution.
DO NOT PUBLISH the interim version
When the real new, corrected, version is available, upload the new build (here again, increment the build and version number from the interim version)
In AppstoreConnect, change the build and then publish

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Answer 2

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Feb ’22

I’d just ask them for their Provisioning UDID, add it to your team, and send them a development-signed app. I guess you’d consider that to be an “internal tester” but, *shrug*, labels are for cans, not for people IMO (-:

The other option is to send them a Developer ID signed app. This was the standard process for external beta testing before TestFlight.

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