How to Send Your App Update to Google for Review

Posted on 4. May 2023 by Jan Bunk


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In this guide we'll go over every step needed to upload a new version of your app to the Play Store.

Open the Google Play Console.

Select your app.

Click "Production" on the left

Click 'Production'

Click "Create new release" at the top right.

Click Download your app as an .aab file

Upload the .aab file you just downloaded in the Google Play Console.

Upload the .aab file you just downloaded in the Google Play Console.

After uploading the file you should see something like this screenshot.

After uploading the file you should see something like this screenshot.
If you see the error message "Version code x has already been used. Try another version code.", please reload the page and instead of uploading the app bundle again, click "Add from library" and select it there.

Enter a description for the app release, for example "Small bug fixes and design improvements.".

Enter a description for the app release, for example

Click "Save" at the bottom.

Click

Click "Review release" at the bottom right.

Click

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and set the rollout percentage to 100.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and set the rollout percentage to 100.

Click "Start rollout to Production" and confirm it if a dialog pops up.

Click

Click "Dashboard" in the menu on the left.

Click

If it says "In review", you're done, you just need to wait for the update to get reviewed by Google. If it only says "Ready to send for review", your update is not being reviewed yet.

If it says

In that case, click "Go to Publishing overview".

In that case, click

There you can then click "Send for review".

There you can then click

That's it! Your app update will be reviewed by Google now. The update should become available for download after at most a couple of days, but usually it takes just a few hours.

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Hi, I'm Jan! I created webtoapp.design in 2019 while studying computer science in university. A lot has changed since then - not only have I graduated, but it's also no longer just me running webtoapp.design. We've grown to a global, fully remote team and have gathered lots of experience around app development and app publishing. We've created and published hundreds of apps in the app stores, where they've been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.