“This is the internal testing link”: the wrong link was pasted

The pasted link belongs to your internal test, not to the closed test. Copy the closed testing track's opt-in link instead, and keep our testers out of internal testing.

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Written By JordanLast updated 1 hour ago

What you see

When you paste your link in Peerbeta, it answers: “This is the internal testing link. Copy the one of the closed testing track.” Or testers received an internal testing link from you.

Why

Internal testing is a separate track and doesn't count for production access. Worse, Google says a user who opts into your internal test is no longer eligible for your closed test until they leave the internal one. Its link contains /apps/internaltest/.

What to do

  1. In the Play Console, go to “Test and release › Testing › Closed testing” and open your track.
  2. In the “Testers” tab, copy the “Join on the web” link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/ followed by your package name.
  3. Paste it in the “Paste the opt-in link” step of your Peerbeta test.
  4. Open “Test and release › Testing › Internal testing › Testers” and remove our group and any list that holds our testers. Your own addresses can stay.

What Peerbeta does

Peerbeta checks the link as soon as you paste it and refuses an internal testing link. If one was saved anyway, the diagnosis raises an alert.

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