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PSA: on Google Play, if you have a build waiting to publish on production (managed publishing on), all your other tracks will come to a screeching halt. You cannot choose which builds can be published. It's all or nothing.

omg, my builds have not been being pushed out to internal testers. They have been uploaded and put on the track but not released. Every beta tester on Android is like 37 days behind.

Google has announced that "developers with newly created personal Play Console accounts will soon be required to test their apps with at least 20 people for a minimum of two weeks before applying for access to production." More specifically, Google says developers with personal accounts created after November 13, 2023, have to "run a closed test for [their] app with a minimum of 20 testers who have opted-in for at least the last 14 days continuously." By "continuously", Google means that they "won't count testers who opted in, tested for less than 14 days, and then opted out." Certain features in the Play Console, such as Production (Release > Production) and Pre-registration (Release > Testing > Pre-registration) will be disabled until these requirements are met. Google will ask developers "some questions to help [them] understand your app, its testing process, and its production readiness." The features that will be restricted until the new requirements are met Here's a table that summarizes the testing requirements per track: Links to the blog post/FAQ in the replies.