Test Flight Groups - How to send a build to a group?
Apple's announcemnt on TestFlight Groups says:
Organize your testers into groups to quickly send builds, provide separate instructions on where to focus, and apply an action to several testers at once in TestFlight
How do I do this? I have my groups set up, my build has been uploaded and passed Beta App Store review. But I can't figure out how to send the load to a specific group.
Answer
It's somewhat misleading. You can only create a single list of testers for an app, and you send the build to those testers. If you want to change who gets it for the next build you send, you can modify the list, but you cannot send out multiple builds to different groups at once.
Groups only come into play as a filtering mechanism when you're adding external testers to the tester list for your app. So, if you have a group set up and you want to send a build to that group, you'd do this:
- Go to the Prerelease->External Testers tab
- Hit the plus sign by "Testers" and select "Add Existing Testers"
- Use the Groups dropdown to select the group you are interested in. This will filter your master list of testers
- Hit the top level checkbox to select everyone in the group and then press the Add button
My guess is that isn't what you were hoping to do, but that's all the 'Groups' functionality does for you - it's just a way to tag your testers. I only see it being helpful if you've got multiple apps with different sets of testers, and you want to be able to easily maintain the separate lists of testers.