Reset iOS App Version Numbering in App Store Connect

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TLDR; Is there a way to reset the app version of an iOS app in the AppStore?

Backstory:

This is my first time publishing an iOS App and at the start of the development, I got the App version and Build number in reverse (thus the image below). I got away with this by just providing the actual version number in the app store listing but sooner and later, my boss found out about this and now they want me to fix this.

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My options as of this moment are the following:

  1. Put down the current App then create a new one where the versioning is correct.

    Not sure if I can still reuse the current app bundle or must create a new one.

  2. Try to convince my boss that we should just slip this through since we can override the displayed app version in the app store listing.

    I tried to look at the iPhone's Setting > General > iPhone Storage and there the incorrect version was.

What's my best options here? If not then what else can I do about this.

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2 Answers

First of all there is no "right" or "wrong" versioning. There are only 2 constraints in App Store Connect:

  • Version numbers (in your case 3, 4, 5, 5.0.4) need to increase. You can't have 5.0.3 after 5.0.4 and so on.

  • The second is about build numbers. They also need to increase, but get "reseted" for each version. Some people decide to use 1, 2, 3 etc. for the builds, others use the version and then increase (5.0.1.1, 5.0.1.2, 5.0.1.3)

Those version/builds numbers have actually nothing to do with what customers/users see on the App Store. This version number gets managed through App Store Connect and can be completely independent of the version number coming from Xcode.

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I'm also not sure what your boss considers a "wrong" and "right" number. Maybe s/he should have been more precise in the beginning.

As people mentioned in the comments, you cannot reset the versioning. If you setup a brand new app, you can start with the "correct" numbering and implement the logic s/he wants. But you cannot re-use the same bundle ID and people will also not be able to update their existing app.

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Best way would be to create a new app, but there can be problems to name it exactly like the existing one. And of course current users will not get updates for it. If you don't have too many users right know, that is still probably the best solution.

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