Automating OTA Deployments with Scheduling & Crash Rollbacks

Published on April 27, 2026

Deploying over-the-air (OTA) updates to your mobile applications is incredibly powerful. It allows you to bypass the App Store review process and fix critical bugs instantly. But with great power comes great responsibility—pushing a bad update can break your app for thousands of users in a matter of seconds.

Today, we are thrilled to announce two major lifecycle management features in AppSpacer designed to give you peace of mind: Scheduled Deployments and Crash-Based Auto-Rollbacks.

📅 Scheduled Deployments

Waiting around to hit the “Release” button is a thing of the past. Whether you are aiming for a coordinated feature launch on a Tuesday morning, or trying to deploy an update during low-traffic midnight hours, AppSpacer now lets you schedule deployments in advance.

How it works:

When you upload a release, you can assign it an Activation Schedule. The release is securely stored on AppSpacer servers in a “Scheduled” state.

Our background lifecycle monitor continuously evaluates these schedules. The moment the clock strikes your target time, the monitor automatically flips the release to “Active”, and users immediately begin receiving the update.

The New Overview Calendar

To help your entire team visualize upcoming releases, we’ve added a Scheduled Deploys Calendar right to the global overview dashboard. You can click on any highlighted date to see exactly which apps, platforms, and rollout percentages are queued up.

CLI & API Automation

For teams using CI/CD, you don’t even need to use the dashboard! You can pipe a scheduled_at timestamp directly into your API requests, or push a disabled release via the AppCenter CLI and attach a schedule later. Read the full documentation here.

🛡️ Crash-Based Auto-Rollbacks

What happens if you push a release (scheduled or manual) and it contains a fatal flaw? In the past, you’d have to actively watch your crash analytics and manually scramble to disable the release.

Not anymore.

AppSpacer now acts as an active guardian for your active releases. You can configure a Rollout Policy on a per-app basis directly from the App Detail dashboard.

Set Your Thresholds

You define exactly what is acceptable:

Crash Threshold: e.g., Disable if the crash rate exceeds 2.5% of installs.
Time Window: Evaluate this rate over a rolling window (e.g., the last 15 minutes).
Action: Choose what happens. Do you want to entirely Disable the release, Reduce Rollout to 5%, or trigger a Full Rollback to a previous version?

If the threshold is breached, the monitor instantly executes the action and halts the bleed. All automated actions are logged in the Auto-Rollback Event Timeline for full auditability.

Moving from Passive to Active Management

These two features represent a fundamental shift in how AppSpacer handles OTA updates. We’ve moved away from a passive delivery system to an active lifecycle management platform.

You can now confidently upload your update on Friday, schedule it for Sunday at 2 AM, set an aggressive 1% auto-rollback threshold, and sleep soundly through the weekend knowing AppSpacer is monitoring the rollout.

Try it out today in your AppSpacer Dashboard !