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Send over-the-air updates - Expo Documentation

Learn how to send over-the-air updates to push critical bug fixes and improvements to your users.

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Updates - Expo Documentation

It communicates with the configured remote update service to get information about available updates. The expo-updates library can be automatically configured using EAS Update, which is a hosted service that manages and serves updates to your app.

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reddit.com › r/reactnative › expo "over the air update" is awesome

r/reactnative on Reddit: Expo "Over The Air Update" Is Awesome

September 22, 2024 -

Just tired and implemented the expo OTA. It's great and I really enjoyed. This one reason is enough for me to prefer it over Flutter. 😅

It's crazy expensive, I'd only ever push an update there in an emergency

OTA’s are great but remember these take an initial app launch to download, and another app launch to kick in (I.e first time installs from the App Store won’t have the OTA yet ) You can delay the UI and relaunch the app manually after it downloads but depending on the devices network, this can take 30 seconds and destroy a very important part of the mobile-apps UX ( it can also fail to download for xyz reasons ) TLDR: over the air updates are awesome but binary updates are preferred in 95% of enterprise use cases

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React Native OTA Updates with Expo EAS: Step-by-Step Guide & Best Practices - DEV Community

May 12, 2025 - Over-the-air (OTA) updates through Expo's EAS Update revolutionize mobile app development by enabling rapid deployment of bug fixes, performance optimizations, and new features, bypassing the delays of traditional app store reviews.

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OTA Updates With Expo - Pagepro

April 30, 2025 - This is where Expo’s over-the-air update function comes in handy for all mobile app developers. Expo OTA updates let you send critical bug fixes immediately without even worrying about verification times, which helps to improve user experience!

github.com › xavia-io › xavia-ota

GitHub - xavia-io/xavia-ota: A self-hosted Over-The-Air (OTA) updates server for Expo/RN applications that gives you complete control over your app's update distribution.

A self-hosted Over-The-Air (OTA) updates server for Expo/RN applications that gives you complete control over your app's update distribution. - GitHub - xavia-io/xavia-ota: A self-hosted Over-The-Air (OTA) updates server for Expo/RN applications ...

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How to Speed Up Mobile App Development with Expo OTA Updates - The Miners

July 7, 2025 - In this article, I will be referring to the Expo solution for OTA updates, the EAS update. OTA updates can be used to push changes to the Javascript part of the app and these updates are auto-downloaded by the builds when users start the app.

github.com › axelmarciano › expo-open-ota

GitHub - axelmarciano/expo-open-ota: An open-source self-hosted custom updates server implementing the Expo Updates protocol, built for production. Supports cloud storage & CDN.

🚀 An open-source Go implementation of the Expo Updates protocol, designed for production with support for cloud storage like S3 and CDN integration, delivering fast and reliable OTA updates for React Native apps.

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An open-source Go implementation of the Expo Updates protocol, designed for production with support for cloud storage like S3 and CDN integration, delivering fast and reliable OTA updates for React Native apps.

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react native - Do OTA updates in Expo get in motion on the first opening after brand new download from the stores? - Stack Overflow

We've been having similar problems. I can see two things which might be causing this in your case:

Check in app.json if updates.fallbackToCacheTimeout is set. If it's set, that's how long expo will try to download the latest update before showing the last downloaded version (which will be the initial version after initial download).
If you have a large update, expo will try downloading the update for 30s before showing the last version of your app.

Check here for more info: https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/guides/configuring-ota-updates/

OTA updates do not replace the version downloaded from the app store, they are stored first in the device's cache before being run on app start after download. Source https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/updates/

Update downloads are automatically triggered on app start, then, depending on the settings it will either wait (as long as updates.fallbackToCacheTimeout allows) before showing the app, or show it immediately.

You can force the app to run the latest update (if you have one waiting) by just force quitting the app, then restarting.

Hope this helps!

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React Native OTA Updates in 2025: Expo, CodePush, and Stallion Compared | by Gourav Hammad | Medium

June 17, 2025 - React Native OTA Updates in 2025: Expo, CodePush, and Stallion Compared React Native over-the-air (OTA) updates have quietly revolutionized how modern React Native apps are maintained and scaled …

reddit.com › r/expo › i have a question about expo ota updates and app version

r/expo on Reddit: I have a question about Expo OTA updates and app version

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Hi

In my eas.json, I have this under build:

"production": {
  "channel": "production",
  "distribution": "store",
  "environment": "production",
  "autoIncrement": true,
  "ios": {
    "simulator": false
  }
}

I have a question about OTA updates.

Let's say I have an app version 1.0.0 and some users are using it. Then I upload a new version 2.0.0 and some users update and use it (so now I have users using 2 different versions).

How can I send an update to the ones on the older version since all the users are on the same production channel? Is there any way to send an OTA update to the users on one version and not the others?

Thanks

This is a solid question! Why not just push an update prompt so users can open the app -> see the update prompt -> update the app instead of updating version 1.0 ?

We moved off of expo and started delivering our own bundles so my info is out of date, but they used to have you specify a runtime version to prevent delivering OTA updates to incompatible apps.

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docs.expo.dev › bare › updating-your-app

Get started with EAS Update - Expo Documentation

Learn how to get started with the setup required to configure and use EAS Update in your project.

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EAS Update - Expo Documentation

It accomplishes this by enabling an app to update its own non-native pieces (such as JS, styling, and images) over-the-air. All apps that include the expo-updates library have the ability to receive updates.

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Expo OTA Updates Not Working? Here's How expo-ota-manager Can Save You Time and Hassle with OTA Updates | Morrow

However, using the default behaviour may not always be the best option for a project. Expo provides the expo-updates package, which allows you to control how and when your app checks for updates. But this requires some extra work.

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How to implement over the air updates with expo-updates in React Native | by Jamon Holmgren | Red Shift

September 20, 2021 - This allows Expo to host my JS bundle and lets expo-updates retrieve any updated bundles from their servers. I took note of my username (jamonholmgren) and the project slug (OTAHack), as we’ll be setting those in two places below.

stackoverflow.com › questions › 67698143 › will-expo-ota-updates-work-with-new-libraries

Will Expo OTA updates work with new libraries?

As long as the update only involves changes to the JS bundle, and not the native binaries, you should be fine. If the library is pure JS, the update will work. If the library has both a native and JS side to it, the update will be fine as long as the update is only to the JS side. If the native side changed, it won't work.

This article goes into a bit more: How To Use React Native Over The Air (OTA) Updates

After testing this out, it seems that any additions to new libraries does work.

I did notice you need a new build if you change project files like app.json for example.

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OTA update fetched by EAS dev client but not installed on reload · expo/expo · Discussion #17230

Update is a hosted service that serves updates for projects using the expo-updates library. refer below mentioned official link · however i am also facing same issue while migrated from classic build system, eas is not updating ota client side

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github.com › morrowdigital › expo-ota-manager

GitHub - morrowdigital/expo-ota-manager: A helper plugin to manage Over-The-Air updates when your app is running

When you instantiate this library it will check for new app updates every time your app opens from the background. If there are any new updates available, it will download them in the background and then prompt the user to restart their app ...

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stackoverflow.com › questions › 66749245 › updating-react-native-expo-app-ota-vs-build

Updating React Native Expo app, OTA vs build - Stack Overflow

Your assumptions are correct. Ultimately it is up to you how you want to manage releases (your proposal seems reasonable). What I have been doing is keeping the release channel in sync with the build numbers. So I release version 2.6 on release channel prod-2-6. And my git branching strategy matches this so I can make bug fixes to specific versions.

One problem with publishing OTA updates and not releasing new versions to the app store is that, unless you have a very long fallbackToCacheTimeout value, new users downloading the app for the first time will receive the version that is bundled with the app, and it won't be updated until they close and reopen the app or you handle the update yourself.

My strategy (there are others for sure) has been to make changes to the app, then publish on several past release-channels and post a new version to the app store. It isn't time consuming and this way you can update screenshots or anything else as needed. And you have the most number of people on the latest code version.

This also answers your question of how to not update existing users: if the release-channel is the same as the build number then you can keep versions distinct.