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I am creating an app for iPad on React Native. I am working on a macbook.

I want to test the app on a physical iPad with a deployed production build of the app.

I don't seem to understand how am I supossed to do that. I'm finding a lot of info on how to deploy to the App Store, but that's not what I need.

I used to use expo for Android and build an APK and just install it on a physical device, now I want to do something similar.

This time I'm not using Expo, just react-native-cli and XCode. I tried the app on a simulator and it works, but now I want to send it to a different person so he can test it on a physical device and not on debug mode, but on an actual production build of the app.

How can I achieve that?

RamaProg
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  • Your ***best*** option for testing is to build for release, upload to App Store, and make the build available for [Test Flight](https://developer.apple.com/testflight/). – DonMag May 06 '21 at 19:33

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You can use www.diawi.com for that.

First, you'll want add any device's UDID that you want the app installed on to your provisioning profile in your app. Try this out to add a UDID

Then to create an .ipa of your app, follow along in this link up until "Installing Your App on Test Devices Using Xcode".

Once you have your .ipa, upload that to https://www.diawi.com/ Diawi will return to you a link that you can send out to user's who's UDID you've added to the provisioning profile.

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