Publishing error: App Already Approved – Your app has already been approved by Google…

You may encounter this error while submitting an Android publishing request:

App Already Approved; 

Your app has already been approved by Google. To publish an update, please create and prepare a new release.

Actual screenshot:

This is usually because of undetectable release created in your Console. You most likely saved it, but not “as draft”. 

To resolve this error, you need to:

1. Go to Google Play Console
2. Click Test and Release> Production:
3. Click “Create new release” in the upper right corner of the page
4. Add or upload a build for the release
5. Add a release name and release notes
6. Click “Save as draft”

It should look like this:

Once done, go back to the backend and try submitting an Android PR again.