All of it worked.
When you first push a build to AppCenter… you need to make sure the version numbers has NOT changed. It will NOT push new versions in your app. These version numbers are the ones inside of CONFIG.xml. Do NOT change these or it will not update your app.
Second! It takes a while to download the new app in the background…so the app needs to open for a while to allow the download to take place.
Third… once there is a new update … the app has to restart in order to view it.
The biggest thing for me was the version number. I see their point , but it is rather annoying as that wouldn’t a design pattern I’d use. I would guess most people would be like me and just want the latest version to override everything on the phone regardless of what starting version they got from the app store. This means you have to store the AppCenter pushed Version in another place… which makes ZERO sense.