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CHAPTER 08Lesson 28 of 36

Create your App Store Connect record

App Store Connect is Apple’s website for managing your app’s listing, test builds and releases. Start by making an empty record for your app.

On your Mac8 min read & do
By the end of this lesson

Create one iOS app record with the same identity as your Xcode project.

Before you begin

Your Apple membership must be active. The free Personal Team cannot create an App Store release.

Let’s do this

  1. 1
    In Xcode

    Check the app’s identity

    Open your project in Xcode. Select the app target → Signing & Capabilities. Choose your enrolled team, keep Automatically manage signing on, and note the Bundle Identifier. It is the app’s unique label, such as com.yourname.MyGarden. Keep it stable.

  2. 2
    On your Mac

    Register the identifier if needed

    Open Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles in your Apple developer account and look under Identifiers. Xcode may already have registered your app’s ID. If missing, add an App ID for an app using that exact explicit Bundle Identifier and only the capabilities your app uses.

  3. 3
    On your Mac

    Add a new app

    Open App Store Connect → Apps → + → New App. Choose iOS, enter the app name and primary language, select the matching Bundle ID and set a private SKU, such as mygarden-ios-001. SKU is your own reference, not the public app name.

    Open App Store Connect (opens a new tab)
  4. 4
    On your Mac

    Create and check the record

    Choose access for your own account and click Create. Check the app name and Bundle ID carefully. Now choose the optional syncing or accounts lessons below if needed, or continue to preparing a build.

App Store Connect New App form with name, language, Bundle ID and SKU fields.View larger
Apple’s example: create the app’s record in App Store Connect. For this course, select iOS only. The example checks several platforms.Screenshot source (opens a new tab)

A message for Codex

Check the identity settings for my first iPhone app without changing them. Tell me its Bundle Identifier, app target and selected signing team. Explain what I should select in the new App Store Connect record, and flag any mismatch.

Make this message fit your idea.

What you should see

Your new app appears in App Store Connect and its Bundle ID matches Xcode.

If you get stuck

Go at your own pace. There is no test to pass.

Checked 7 September 2026. Screens can change; the official guides below have the latest steps.

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