Thank you for the clarification — but with respect, this answer raises a much bigger problem than it solves. If internal only builds cannot be attached to app versions, why are they shown as selectable options in the build picker in the first place? Your own UI presented build 2 as a valid candidate, let us select it, and then failed silently with a generic 409 error in the network layer. No inline error message. No badge or label on the build indicating it was ineligible. No tooltip. Nothing in the visible UI explaining why the attach was failing. We — and apparently other developers, given that you said thank you all for the reports — spent hours debugging this. We checked export compliance, re-verified processing status, hard-refreshed, cleared caches, re-archived builds, opened DevTools to inspect network traffic, and combed through documentation. All of that time and effort was wasted because App Store Connect surfaced an ineligible build as if it were eligible and then refused to attach it with
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App Store Distribution & Marketing
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App Store Connect
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