Apple has blocked uploads from my account for at least two days with ITMS-90383: "The upload limit for your account has been reached. Please wait 1 day and try again." The block is on the account, not on any one app. They have all been refused. I read the emails in full, and Apple's own headers give their sent times as 9 Nov 21:10:48 GMT and 10 Nov 00:31:29 GMT.
The last uploads that went through finished at about 21:04 GMT on 9 Nov. Failing runs began at about 20:56–21:10 GMT. So the block started at about 1 pm Pacific on 9 Nov.
The app records the email as received at 19:55:55 GMT on 10 Nov, but Apple sent it at 21:10:48 GMT on 9 Nov. That is about 22 hours and 45 minutes later. So the first warning reached my inbox about a day after Apple sent it, and more pushes went out in that gap. Why was the delivery so late?
Questions:
- The exact limit. Apple doesn't publish it. Forum posters report being blocked at about 19–20 uploads a day.
- Whether rejected retries extend the block.
- The cause of each individual failed run. Some failed for other reasons. For example, Tech build 3 failed on the macOS archive.
Nothing I've found points to the app code. This is Apple's cap.
From App Store Connect <no_reply@email.apple.com>
Action needed: The uploaded build for ... has one or more issues.
App Store Connect
Hello,
We noticed one or more issues with a recent delivery for the following app:
App Apple ID
Version 1.0
Build 5
Please correct the following issues and upload a new binary to App Store Connect.
ITMS-90383: Upload limit reached - The upload limit for your account has been reached. Please wait 1 day and try again.
Apple Developer Relations