Field diagram — commit to TestFlight
Every way an iOS build dies.
A CI job can print three green checkmarks and still ship nothing. This is a drawn map of the pipeline from git push to a build showing up in TestFlight — sixteen real, diagnosed failure points, in the order they actually happen, each with the mechanism and the fix. No invented cases. Every node below is a real, sourced failure, mostly from Stack Overflow threads that sat unanswered for months and questions this project's own tools were built to answer.
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Select a marker above — start with 01, or jump straight to the stage that's currently ruining your afternoon.
All sixteen, by stage
Every case above is a real, diagnosed failure — mostly from Stack Overflow threads that sat with zero answers for months, plus packaging and processing bugs caught in this project's own shipped pipeline. Nothing here is invented to fill a slot. If you hit something not on this map, the fix is the same either way: read the actual log a few dozen lines above the summary line the tool gives you, not the summary line itself.
You can fix all sixteen yourself, or run a pipeline that already has.
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