Uploading to the store

Make sure that you have the following ready:

• Screenshots: Go to https://theapplaunchpad.com/ to generate screenshots
• Your app
• Your app's name
• A description of your app
• Promotional message for your app
• Tags for your app
• Support URL. 
• Icon images - one of them has to be 1024x1024. You can generate them at https://makeappicon.com.

Steps

1. Go to https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/identifier/bundle/create
2. Create the app, 
3. App name: Name of your app, like Classroom Manager Pro
4. Bundle ID: com.yourcompanyname.yourappname
5. Go to your applications finder. Look for keychain access. Open it up. Maximise it.
6. Click on certificate assistant, 
7. Type in the following details:
8. Click Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority…
9. User email: Email address of developer
10. Enter the name of the app.
11. You don’t have to enter the CA email address
12. Check saved to disk and save it to the disk.
13. Go to https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/certificate/
14. Go to Production.
15. Click the + sign.
16. Choose App Store and Ad Hoc under Production.
17. Click Next and upload the certificate that you had just created.
18. Download the cert and install it in your computer by double clicking.
19. Save it somewhere safe and in a place that you can access.
20. Go to provisioning profiles in the apple developer website. (Scroll down to see it)
21. Select Distribution - App Store
22. Give it a name: Your App Name App Store Distribution
23. Download and install it. Save it somewhere safe.
24. Go to https://itunesconnect.apple.com
25. Click on ‘my apps’.
26. Click on the + sign.
27. Key in the information: SKU is the bundle ID. When you upload screenshots for iPad, choose the iPad Pro screen shots.
28. Go to xcode.
29. Go to click on the app name at the top left hand corner, go to general settings, click on signing and disable automatic signing in.
30. Assign the profiling to be that of what you have saved earlier. 
31. Make sure that the simulator chosen is Generic IOS device.
32. Go to Product - Archive
33. Click on upload to App Store (make sure that you sign in to iTunes using your developer’s account) 
34. Go to iTunes connect. Click on 'Prepare for submission.' Choose select a build. 
35. When updating icon, make sure that the icon is 1024 x 1024
36. To view app, go to Activity in the iTunes connect page.
37. Go to build and click on the + sign. Select the build. 
38. Click on submit for review. Wait 2-3 weeks for the review to be in.

Note:

If you wish to build your app and run it in your phone after uploading to App Store, change sign in for debugging to 'Automatically Sign In'.