When I am uploading new builds to the App Store, the processing times for new builds do not seem to be consistent. What I mean is that a build can go through processing quickly as in a matter of minutes and sometimes they seem to get stuck for hours or more. Needless to say, this interferes with my ability to readily use new builds for testing or for submitting them for review.
My question is, is there anything that can be done with regard to the packaging of my IPA or my build settings to obtain more consistent processing times on the App Store?
Please note that I am asking about the initial processing of an uploaded binary and not the time it takes for Apple to review an app.
I’m primarily uploading apps that use both Swift and Objective-C so the Swift runtime libraries are being included in my App Store package. I’m either submitting builds using Xcode 7.0.1 or a custom build script based on xcodebuild. Both methods have successfully uploaded builds but as I stated, the processing times can be wildly irregular and prompts me to reconsider how I am submitting my IPAs.
I want to note that this irregularity can occur at seemingly any time of the day so I’m not sure if that could be a factor.
From casual observation, it seems that newer builds will take priority over older builds. So if you have one build that has not completed processing, the newer build can finish processing before the older one. If a series of builds has been uploaded, the intermediate builds can be stalled for seemingly extended periods of time. This seems like a sensible approach in that more recent builds would have a higher priority in processing. I’m not entirely sure this is happening.
