I have an unpublished app that we use as our development environment, and we need to transfer it to another Apple Developer account. Since the app is not published, the standard App Transfer process in App Store Connect does not apply.
Is there any workaround to transfer the app without creating a new developer account, changing the bundle ID, or reconfiguring all the associated certificates and provisioning profiles? We would like to avoid the need to rebuild and reconfigure everything from scratch.
Any guidance on this process would be greatly appreciated!
The transfer process for a published app is designed to preserve user reviews, privacy statements, revenue etc., and to enable users to upgrade the app in future, rather than download a new one.
If it was never published, from an App Store point of view, there's nothing to transfer.
You said "we need to transfer it to another Apple Developer account", so you don't need to create a new developer account - it already exists.
Was the app granted some special entitlements which were tied to the old developer account? If so, you'd need to apply for those again.
