How to Deploy Your React Native Expo App to the App Store
Beto, May 21, 2025 · 59,904 views
Shipping to the App Store used to mean fighting Xcode, certificates, and provisioning profiles for days. With EAS it comes down to two commands: and . In the video I take a real app from local project to TestFlight, live.
What's inside
- Building and signing in the cloud, no local Xcode required
- Letting Expo manage your Apple certificates and provisioning profiles
- Registering the app in your Apple Developer account automatically
- Installing the production build on your phone through TestFlight
- Setting up push notification keys during the build
- Inviting up to 10,000 beta testers before you go live
- Submitting the final build for App Store review
Resources

CourseReact Native course
Go deeper in the Publishing section: 75 minutes on the full App Store and Play Store submission.
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