App Store Connect App for Developers Gets Fresh Icon, New Features

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its App Store Connect app designed for developers, introducing a new icon that is a more complex version of the original simple blue and white "A" design.

New icon on the right​

App Store Connect is used by developers for iOS app management. It provides info on app statuses, offers data on app performance and sales, and lets developers access and respond to reviews.

Along with an updated icon, the new version of the app released today introduces an option for setting up internal TestFlight beta testing, with up to 100 members of a developer's team can test beta builds of an app. Full release notes for the update are below:

With this update, you can now:
- Set up internal TestFlight beta testing
- Add up to 100 members of your team to test beta builds of your app
- Edit test details for beta builds, view build activity and status, and expire builds
- Answer required export compliance questions

Developers can download App Store Connect from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: App Store Connect App for Developers Gets Fresh Icon, New Features

 

[Doomtomb]

Wow, I can't wait!

 

[thatvirtualboy]

Eesh, if I didn't know any better I would think the 'old' icon was the newer one... looks way cleaner.

 

[Atarikid]

Oh boy ... first we got Aqua look. Then the thin/simple look. Now back 'aqua-a-like' look.

Personally the new icon looks .. well .. ugly.

 

[BreuerEditor]

Whatever happened to the 'simplicity' mentality? I thought we went from these 3D lots of 'depth' icons to flat to make them cleaner and simplistic (flat)? Now we're going back to that? 🤔

 

[JosephAW]

What no pencil, paintbrush, ruler icons?

 

[carrrrrlos]

Shadow filter = new?

 

[oneMadRssn]

Depth and shadows are the new parachute pants.

 

[Pman17]

Finally a good update for this app. The only thing useful was checking for sales. It's nice that I can just add someone to testing during a conversation rather than remember to do it at home.

 

[skel_73]

They are legit going backwards with their design language. It looks like circa 2000.

I do branding and design for a living so maybe I've oversensitive to it, but I find the fact that they are doing this worrisome as it feels regressive and 'un-Apple' to me....

 

[jdelaune]

That’s one ugly icon. Looks very out of place.

 

[AngerDanger]

It's like Apple just realized within the last year that icons can have depth.

 

[The Barron]

Apple today updated its App Store Connect app designed for developers, introducing a new icon that is a more complex version of the original simple blue and white "A" design.

App Store Connect is used by developers for iOS app management. It provides info on app statuses, offers data on app performance and sales, and lets developers access and respond to reviews.

Along with an updated icon, the new version of the app released today introduces an option for setting up internal TestFlight beta testing, with up to 100 members of a developer's team can test beta builds of an app. Full release notes for the update are belowevelopers can download App Store Connect from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: App Store Connect App for Developers Gets Fresh Icon, New Features

Wow! Now I can start to relax after all my anxiety over this issue. Whew! 😬

 

[Rogifan]

3D is back?

 

[R2FX]

What no pencil, paintbrush, ruler icons?

Ridiculous, right? First they butcher the icon and replace with a stupid glyph and then they keep on iterating on this cr4p

for the record I still prefer iOS6 and Mavericks UI to the Bauhaus-Ive-like childish UI

 

[nathan_reilly]

Wow. I was just getting on board with the super flat stuff.

 

[jonblatho]

Ah, yes, App Store Connect — just another of those wonderful developer services that that 30% pays for.

/s, if it wasn’t obvious

 

[Konigi]

Looks like Windows 95 screensaver.

We're going further away from internal consistency in Apple's own icons.

 

[now i see it]

Its an optical illusion. The bars appear to look like bars but can also look like grooves. Abysmal

 

[ss2cire]

Finally a good update for this app. The only thing useful was checking for sales. It's nice that I can just add someone to testing during a conversation rather than remember to do it at home.

you mean you didnt have the Test Flight app that can do exactly that?

 

[elgrecomac]

my goodness… 16 comments most of which are about “an icon “… Is that where we are with Apple now… an icon is the lead in...and only a few comments on the new testing services?..wow.... maybe Apple HAS lost some of its mojo.

 

[Chorx]

Oh boy ... first we got Aqua look. Then the thin/simple look. Now back 'aqua-a-like' look.

Personally the new icon looks .. well .. ugly.

This. Ugly

 

[Mr. Dee]

You can tell there aren’t a lot of old people working at Apple anymore especially in the human interface department. There is something very immature about the design choices, yes, there are a lot of softer tones and lot of the innovation just feels very half done.

I’m sorry to say it, but the Steve Jobs final say when it comes to fit and finish just seems to no longer be there. It’s just these kids (we all saw them during WWDC 2020) who obviously had there teen year motives of I’m going to work at Apple one day and implement my idea.

If I had my way, everything is going right back Panther style fit and finish. There really has not been much need for a paint job on OS X. Sure, the pinstripes were a bit too much, as well as the brush metal, I think Mavericks kinda got it just right. Then all these dull uninteresting flat nonsense started creeping in.

I really would like to Scott Forstalls opinions on the matter. I suspect he likely doesn’t much interest in the user interfaces these days.

 

[macbookguy]

I just threw up in my mouth.​

 

[Internet Enzyme]

Eesh, if I didn't know any better I would think the 'old' icon was the newer one... looks way cleaner.

The newer one looks like that horrendous battery icon of the first big sur betas. shadows and depth are great but sheesh these just look dirty