Put your app in the App Store

In the iPhone beta, your app can also be in the App Store. Apple only accepts a business’s app from that business’s own Apple developer account, so you set up the account yourself, in about 12 minutes on your iPhone, and connect it to Anela with one sign-in. Anela shows you each step and does everything else.

Before you start

• Your iPhone, signed in to iCloud with the Apple ID you already use, with two-factor sign-in on.
• Your Apple ID’s password (many iPhone owners never type it, so check you know it).
• Your ID, and your own card for Apple’s 99 dollars a year.
• A registered company (LLC, Inc.) also needs its D-U-N-S number and an email on its own domain.

The four steps

1. Join Apple’s Developer Program. In Apple’s Developer app on your iPhone, sign in and tap Enroll. Use your name exactly as it is on your ID, and your own card.
2. Wait for Apple. Apple usually confirms a person within a day of paying. When Apple’s welcome email arrives, come back to Your app and tap Apple’s email arrived.
3. Turn on keys. Open Apple’s page with the link in the step, tap Request Access, tick the box and send it. Apple usually turns keys on right away.
4. Connect Apple. In Anela, sign in with your Apple ID and password, then enter the 6-digit code Apple sends to your iPhone, or tap Text me a code instead. Your iPhone shows a sign-in from another city: that’s our server, so tap Allow. A registered company first answers one question: whether to show the business name as the company on the App Store (only if it is the company’s registered trade name).

In that sign-in Anela creates your app in your Apple account, its notification key, and a key named Anela with a short code, which it keeps sealed to build and update your app. Anela asks for your Apple password once per app and never keeps it. To add another app later, open it and tap Add this app to your Apple account.

If Connect Apple stops

The step tells you why in one line. Check your Apple ID and password, wait a while after too many codes, try again in a few minutes if Apple didn’t allow the sign-in from our server, finish or renew your membership with Apple, or accept Apple’s new terms. If Apple hasn’t turned keys on yet, sign in once more later and Anela finishes. If your Apple account already has the most notification keys Apple allows, your app goes ahead without iPhone notifications until you revoke one you don’t use.

After the steps

Anela makes your app’s page in the App Store, its pictures, and the app. When it’s ready, Send my app to Apple opens Apple’s page, where you send it for review. Apple’s review usually takes 1 to 2 days. If Apple asks for a change, our team takes care of it.

Anela never sends your app to Apple for you. Every time you publish, the iPhone app shows the new version too.

If you leave

If you delete the project, its iPhone app goes off sale in the App Store. When none of your projects uses your Apple account any more, or you delete your Anela account, Anela deletes its copies of the two keys it made. Revoke both at Apple too: Beta features shows the two links (the team key and the push key, each named Anela with a short code).