What does 'Release type' do?

[plaa]

The documentation explains that you can select a release type or type your own, but nowhere does it say what the release type does. Does it have some functional impact or is it just shown somewhere?

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• Content: Creating and managing apps - Visual Studio App Center
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[Reisclef]

+1

It's definitely unclear as to what effect this has on anything. It'd be good to know this.

[LeoJHarris]

Same here, I assume these are just tags but scratching my head a bit on the difference on production vs store? Wouldn't these be one in the same?

[louisiscoding]

Definitely having trouble here since it look likes if you chose the Production Release Type for your iOS app. It will always pick the "Release" Signing Capabilities that you have defined in XCode

More infos here : https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/appcenter-docs/issues/1482