Published expo app, running in expo on iOS

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I just built my first react-native app through expo and published it for the client to view. They can click the link on their android (where they downloaded expo client) and it opens and runs fine. WHen they click it on their iPhone (also downloaded expo iOS app) it opens expo and then returns a message that it can' load and to go back to the expo home page basically.

I've built this app specifically with iOS and android in mind and I thought that expo handles that for both published testing and deployment to the app stores, however, I don't want to have to pay the iOS 99 dollar fee yet just to let them test this on an iPhone.

Does anyone know why a successfully published app that opens on android through expo won't open on iOS devices?

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user_120461480

If I remember correctly you have to use Apples Testflight service for letting users test the app and thus there is no way around the 99$/year they demand.

On iOS, you can't share your published link When you publish, any Android user can open your app inside Expo client immediately. Due to restrictions imposed by Apple, the best way to share your published app is to build a native binary with Expo's build service. You can use Apple TestFlight to share the app with your testers, and you can submit it to the iTunes Store to share more widely.

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