The CloudKit miss

Kitchen Counter launched on the App Store. I played 20 games on my phone over the first day. Then I reinstalled the Watch app and everything was gone. No games, no partners, no sync.

Claude had walked me through the entire submission process. Archive, upload, TestFlight, review, release. But neither of us deployed the CloudKit schema from Development to Production. When the App Store build went live, both devices pointed at an empty Production database. Sync failed silently.

The fix took five minutes in the CloudKit Dashboard.