How to ship to both stores, and every spec you need

Apple's age rating questionnaire explained: the 4+ to 18+ tiers, every question, and the social media answers required from September 2026.

Every App Store listing field with its exact character limit, what it is for, which fields are searchable, and which you can change without shipping a version.

Admin, App Manager, Developer, Marketing, Finance and the rest, what each can actually do, and the least-privilege role for a CI or tool API key.

What the encryption questions mean, what an HTTPS-only app answers, how to set ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption, and when documentation is genuinely required.

Apple's published claim, what developers actually report, what Waiting for Review and In Review mean for timing, and whether anything speeds it up.

Every App Store display class with its exact accepted pixel sizes, orientation rules, how many you can upload, and the format limits.

Apple says it, ja and sv. Play says it-IT, ja-JP and sv-SE. The mapping table, why es-MX becomes es-419, and what breaks when you send the wrong one.

The numeric App Store storefront IDs, what the X-Apple-Store-Front header does, 15 territories in a table, and why the full list runs to roughly 175.

Play's three listing limits (30, 80, 4000), what Play actually indexes for search, the formatting and emoji rules, and where release notes fit.

Account-level versus app-level permissions, per-track release rights, adding a service account or teammate safely, and why a new permission seems not to work.

Play's screenshot ranges for phone, 7-inch and 10-inch tablet, the exact 1024x500 feature graphic, the icon, and the form-factor sets.

Create a Play Developer API service account: enable the API, make the JSON key, invite it to Play Console, and fix the 401s and 403s.

Create an App Store Connect API key: Issuer ID, Key ID and .p8, which role to pick, and what to do when the key file is lost.

Tracks, the 12 testers for 14 days closed-testing gate, staged rollout and managed publishing, in the order you actually hit them.

Every stage from a finished build to a live App Store listing, in order, with the exact thing that blocks each one.

Apple's 30-character subscription display name and 45-character description, Play's 55 and 80, the product ID format that works on both stores, and the period and trial enums.

Apple freezes your name, subtitle, keywords and description to a version. Play does not. The full field-by-field breakdown for both stores.

Internal versus external testers, what needs Beta App Review, the 90-day build expiry, groups, public links, and the friction nobody warns you about.

Comma separated with no spaces, singular not plural, nothing already in your app name, no competitor brands. The rules for Apple's hidden keyword field.

Apple indexes name, subtitle and keywords. Play indexes title, short description and full description. Everything else is sales copy, and here is what that means.

Work out whether a screenshot uploads as-is, needs a proportional resize, or has to be padded, and why stretching is never the answer.