November 2024: Small improvements & fixes
November finally unveiled the new App Store Nominations, prompting us to realize that we could transform the App Store Promote feature from a mere web view into a powerful tool that genuinely assists you in getting featured and submitting a new nomination with just a single click.
Here’s everything we shipped in November:
What’s New or Improved?
- NEW FEATURE: We now allow you to easily create App Store Nominations
- 30% discount on RocketSim with a Helm Pro Yearly subscription via the App Store.
- We now sort apps by “Last Opened”
- Made it easier to remove a selected build.
- Expanded details on phased releases for more clarity.
- Made more of our code ready for Swift 6 (Normally, we wouldn’t write this in our release notes but since you’re all developers too it makes sense)
- We now give clearer warnings for more types of errors (Thank you to everybody that send these)
- Introduced a “NEW” label for recent reviews.
- Updated Focused Layout icon.
- Enabled localization for release notes in TestFlight drafts.
- Added localization support for beta app descriptions.
- Introduced a prompt for missing beta app descriptions before submission.
- Allowed removal of primary and secondary categories.
What’s Fixed?
- Submissions when “What’s New” text was under 10 characters couldn’t be submitted.
- Fixed app crashes post-onboarding.
- Corrected misaligned sidebar UI.
- Improved refresh logic for the navigation bar.
- Resolved unnecessary update prompts.
- Fixed issues updating Promotional Text and Copyright in all states.
- Resolved error with screenshot uploads using Helm file name patterns.
- Corrected timezone issues when setting release dates.
- Enhanced error messaging for beta build submissions.
- Fixed TestFlight draft view to display drafts consistently.
- Corrected issues with duplicate primary and secondary categories.
- Fixed bug preventing submission of initial versions.
- Addressed UI issue where tvOS app icons appeared stretched.
- Fixed layout issue for screenshots.
