iOS deploy issue using EAS deploy

Expo Application Services (EAS)
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Hi Team,

We recently purchased an EAS priority plan to deploy our iOS build to the App store. We went through Submitting to the Apple App Store - Expo Documentation documentation and set up ios Build deploy from a local windows machine.
Step 1: Build the ios bundle using expo
Step 2: Setup 2-factor authentication in the App store.
Step 3: Generated " APP-SPECIFIC PASSWORDS" in app store
Step 4: Created the local environment variable “FASTLANE_APPLE_APPLICATION_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD” and set the value whichever was generated in Step 3.
Step 5: Ran below command
"eas submit --platform ios --url

However, the build failed with the below log message:

> *Something went wrong when submitting your app to Apple App Store.*
> *We couldn't figure out what went wrong. Please see logs to learn more.*
> *[logs] Starting iOS app upload*
> *[logs] Downloading archive*
> *[logs] Preparing artifact*
> *[logs] Uploading iOS app to TestFlight...*
> *[logs] Uploading the app with fastlane*
> *[logs] -------------------*
> *[logs] --- Step: pilot ---*
> *[logs] -------------------*
> *[logs] Ready to upload new build to TestFlight (App: 1571860810)...*
> *[logs] Fetching password for transporter from environment variable named `FASTLANE_APPLE_APPLICATION_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD`*
> *[logs] Going to upload updated app to App Store Connect*
> *[logs] This might take a few minutes. Please don't interrupt the script.*
> *[logs] [Transporter Error Output]: Sign in with the app-specific password you generated. If you forgot the app-specific password or need to create a new one, go to appleid.apple.com (-22938)*
> *[logs] Transporter transfer failed.*
> *[logs] Sign in with the app-specific password you generated. If you forgot the app-specific password or need to create a new one, go to appleid.apple.com (-22938)*
> *[logs]*
> *[logs] Application specific password you provided using*
> *[logs] environment variable FASTLANE_APPLE_APPLICATION_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD*
> *[logs] is invalid, please make sure it's correct*
> *[logs] [!] Invalid application specific password provided*
> *[logs] fastlane pilot failed*

We tried restarting the machine, we tried created secret variable in our expo account naming “FASTLANE_APPLE_APPLICATION_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD” . No luck.

  • Machine - Local
  • Environment - Windows 10

Requesting for your assistance.

Thanks and Regards,
Localzi

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The eas submit requires the EXPO_APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD environment variable. The fastlane one is set automatically on EAS Submission worker based on that flag.

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When running eas submit while this environment variable isn’t set, a user is asked to enter his OTP instead:

Please enter your Apple app-specific password. You can also provide it by using the
EXPO_APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD environment variable.

Shouldn’t eas submit use that password to also set FASTLANE_APPLE_APPLICATION_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD or am I missing something here?

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