Cannot submit apps with Xcode 26.2 RC

Thank you for providing this information. You are correct that the 26.2 RC is still not permitted to submit builds. The team typically updates this page when it is ready and open to submissions.

https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/release-notes/

On the release notes, you’ll see something like “You can now upload apps built with Xcode….”

I understand that submitting with RC versions is often possible, and I acknowledge that this may be an inconvenience. Please continue to monitor the release notes for updates.

Could you please provide any reasons why you are unable to submit with the previous released version?

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Hi Albert,

Thanks for the clarification.

In past cycles, RC builds have typically been permitted for submission within a few hours, so this situation is a bit unusual. I’m assuming iOS 26.2 will likely ship next week, but ASC is also warning developers that they may be overwhelmed during the holidays and encouraging early submissions — which puts us in a difficult position when RC uploads aren’t yet allowed.

Being able to submit with the RC would let us validate TestFlight builds ahead of time and ensure a smooth transition once 26.2 is released. At the moment, it isn’t even possible to test distribution builds, which makes it hard to prepare properly.

Could you shed some light on why RC submissions are blocked this time around?

Thanks again for your help.

I installed the RC (replacing 26.1), tested my app, and went to create a release for an update that happens to need to be released pretty quickly. I recall from previous experience RC builds could submit apps to the App Store so figured I wouldn’t run into any problems. Now I’m blocked. I could go download Xcode 26.1 and redownload the iOS 26.1 Simulator and retest my app with that SDK version but that’s a lot of wasted time/resources only to release the update on a very soon to be out of date SDK. :/ Do you expect this RC build to be accepted in the near future?

In our case we have been pending weeks to fix a problem that was broken with iOS 26.1 but resolved by a SwiftUI modifier with a new parameter available in Xcode 26.2:

extension View {
    func apply<V: View>(@ViewBuilder _ block: (Self) -> V) -> V { block(self) }
}
 
TabView {
   // Some tabs
}
.apply {
	if #unavailable(iOS 26.1) {
	    // Previous approach that stopped working in iOS/iPadOS 26.1
		$0.tabViewBottomAccessory() {
			if viewModel.showAccessoryView {
				// accessory content
			} else {
				EmptyView()
			}
		}
	} else {
	    // When compiled with Xcode 26.2+ for iOS/iPadOS 26.1+
		$0.tabViewBottomAccessory(isEnabled: viewModel.showAccessoryView) {
			// accessory content
		}
	}
}

So we are further frustrated by this longer than typical delay to open submissions to an RC build.