Is restricting an app on Google Play Store to specific countries also restricts Public beta access?

Question

I have an app that is currently in public beta and I'm interested in publishing it to production but I want the production version to be restricted to specific countries ( due to localisation issues). I know there's an option to restrict the app to specific countries, what I can't find an answer to is whether it will restrict my public beta as well. I want to keep the public beta available to all countries.

Answer 1

Quoting from Play Store support:

Pricing & Distribution changes: If you make any changes to your app's Pricing & Distribution page, it affects your app's current and future production, alpha, and beta versions.

Seems like restricting distribution by country also affects the alpha and beta testing.

Too bad.

Answer 2

You can have a separate access list for beta. Just go to MANAGE BETA, then select Manage country availability.