diff --git a/.github/workflows/prebuild-r2.yml b/.github/workflows/prebuild-r2.yml
index 52f4d4b62..ed785c1af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/prebuild-r2.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/prebuild-r2.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 name: Prebuild & Publish WDA to R2
 
-# Builds the prebuilt WebDriverAgentRunner artifacts (the same six zips the
-# manual wda-package.yml produced) and mirrors them to Cloudflare R2 under
-# releases/mobilerun-wda/, following the droidrun-ios release/preview pattern:
+# Builds the prebuilt WebDriverAgentRunner artifacts (iOS + tvOS, real device +
+# simulator arm64/x86_64) and mirrors them to Cloudflare R2 under
+# releases/mobilerun-wda/. Real-device runners ship as .ipa; simulator builds
+# stay as .zip. Follows the droidrun-ios release/preview pattern:
 #
 #   release published  -> releases/mobilerun-wda/<tag>/  + releases/mobilerun-wda/latest/
 #   push to master      -> releases/mobilerun-wda/preview/
@@ -133,6 +134,24 @@ jobs:
           path: dist
           merge-multiple: true
 
+      - name: Repackage real-device runners as .ipa
+        working-directory: dist
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          # Real-device runner artifacts (<Scheme>-Runner.zip) ship as .ipa:
+          # the same .app under a top-level Payload/ directory. Simulator
+          # builds (*-Build-Sim-*.zip) stay as plain .zip, since a simulator
+          # .app is installed directly rather than as an .ipa. The shared
+          # build-*.sh scripts, which other workflows depend on, are untouched.
+          for z in *-Runner.zip; do
+            rm -rf Payload
+            mkdir Payload
+            unzip -q "$z" -d Payload
+            zip -qr "${z%.zip}.ipa" Payload
+            rm -rf Payload "$z"
+          done
+          echo "Packages:"; ls -1 *.ipa *.zip
+
       - name: Generate SHA256SUMS and BUILD_INFO
         working-directory: dist
         run: |
@@ -142,7 +161,7 @@ jobs:
           else
             VERSION="preview-${GITHUB_SHA::7}"
           fi
-          sha256sum *.zip > SHA256SUMS
+          sha256sum *.ipa *.zip > SHA256SUMS
           {
             echo "version=${VERSION}"
             echo "commit=${GITHUB_SHA}"