App Crashes After App Store Release But Not on TestFlight — 4 Common Causes
Your Rork app worked perfectly on TestFlight, but crashes after App Store release. Here are the 4 most common causes and how to fix each one.
Why Your Rork App Icon Won't Update — Cache Fixes for iOS and Android
Replaced your Rork app icon but still seeing the old one? Walk through the layered causes — iOS SpringBoard cache, EAS Build cache, missing Android adaptive icons — and the exact fixes that get the new icon to stick.
Rork Companion Won't Sync or Connect: A Diagnostic Guide
How to diagnose Rork Companion connection failures, QR login issues, and stale previews — symptom-by-symptom on both iOS and Android.
5 Rork AI Generation Failure Patterns — And How to Actually Fix Them
Rork's AI rewrote your entire app again. Learn the 5 most common generation failure patterns — scope overflow, recurring bugs, context drift, style chaos, and infinite loops — with concrete prompt strategies to stop them.
Rork WebView Is Blank or Won't Load: 6 Causes to Check Before You Ship
Dropped a WebView into your Rork app and got a silent blank screen on device? Here's the checklist I run through, in the order that catches the most bugs first.
Diagnosing Metro Bundler Freezes and Broken Fast Refresh in Rork Apps
When your Rork-generated Expo app stops picking up code changes or Metro freezes mid-bundle, here is the diagnostic order and the safe reset steps that actually work.
Reanimated Worklet Errors in Rork Apps — Six Things to Check Before You Panic
React Native Reanimated throws a lot of worklet errors the moment you add it to a Rork project. This walkthrough covers the six most common causes, from a missing Babel plugin to closure capture bugs, in the order you should investigate them.
Rork Max SwiftUI Output Won't Build in Xcode — A Symptom-Based Recovery Guide
When Rork Max's generated SwiftUI project fails to build in Xcode, the right fix depends on the exact error. This guide walks through the common failure modes — dependency resolution, Info.plist, entitlements, bundle ID conflicts — with targeted recovery steps for each.
Why Your Rork App Can't Save Images to the Camera Roll — A Complete Fix
Image and video saving often breaks the moment a Rork-generated app leaves the simulator. This guide walks through the permission model, expo-media-library quirks, and Android 13+ scoped storage changes that reliably trip people up.
State Updated in Rork But UI Won't Re-render? Five Patterns and Fixes
setState is firing in your Rork-generated code but the UI refuses to update. Five common root causes — mutation, stale closures, Zustand selectors, missed dependencies, unmounted updates — each with Before/After code.
When Rork / Rork Max Gets Stuck Mid-Build or Mid-Generation: A Recovery Flow
Your Rork or Rork Max project froze partway through. Generation paused and never resumed, the native build keeps failing while preview works, the project itself refuses to move forward. This guide categorizes the four stuck modes, shows how to diagnose yours in ten seconds, and walks through the recovery path that actually unblocks each one.
Fixing Stuck Splash Screens and White Flash on Launch in Rork Apps
Fixes for the four most common Rork splash screen bugs: a splash that refuses to hide, a white flash on launch, Android 12+ cropping, and dark-mode mismatches.