Our fitness kit's iOS build used to take 14 minutes on CI. After upgrading to Expo SDK 54, it takes 4. That's not a CI optimisation. We didn't add parallel runners or bump the machine size. We just landed on the SDK that ships precompiled XCFrameworks by default. Same code, same build profile, same EAS plan — 70% time reduction. Worth understanding what Expo actually changed. What got precompiled Historically, every iOS Expo build had to compile the entire React Native core and all native module

Expo SDK 54's precompiled XCFrameworks cut our iOS build from 14 min to 4
Dave Kurian
