We used beta testing in TestFlight for a while, especially in the run up to releasing the latest version of our app a couple of years ago, but these days we use staged rollout and monitoring in order to reduce time to market for new features and fixes.
Aside from anything else we don't find much value from it; not many beta testers keep up to date and even less (read: none) provide any kind of feedback.
So we're wondering how we can close down the beta channel for our app? We feel we have to keep it up to date for our existing users who are using it so it's an extra step we could do without when we're doing our (mostly automated) release.
Has anyone done this? If so what approach did you take?
Is there an automatic way to do it and bump those beta testers back to the production version?
Thanks in advance!
