I have a question about provisioning profile, one I generate a provision profile on iOS Provisioning Portal, it always come with expiration date for only a year, does anyone know how to prolongue this date for 2100+, for example?
Is there any way to do that? Or is it impossible to do?
It is not possible to make any change to a certificate which is basically what a provisioning profile is. It has a signed hash.
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I have nothing in the App Store so I'm not worried about that. I am just wondering if I will still be able to develop new apps using Xcode and be able to test them out on an actual device if I have those profiles stored locally on disk...
No because if you look at your keychain youll see that your provisioning profile has an expiration date, a year from when you purchased the membership. You'll have to renew it to test on devices.
The date is Feb 18th 2013 and I have been testing on all my devices since the day after posting this question.
Just in case, I went to the provisioning portal and created a new provisioning profile on January 25th 2013 which expires the same day in 2014.
So to answer the original question, YES you can test on your devices after your Developer Account passes the renewal date.
Your provisioning profile is basically a cryptographic certificate (not really, but understand it this way) that is signed by Apple which allows iOS to run your apps. The expiry date on the certificate is (as far as my knowledge is concerned) same as the expiry date on your Apple-Developer account.
So, no. You will not be able to test your apps after your account expires.
I have two questions for you.
First one is that my distribution certificate is going to expire next month. So I created a new distribution certificate today without revoking the older one. I did it without any problem. But I notice that the new certificate is going to expire on 9th oct 2015 and not 9th oct 2013. According to my knowledge apple distribution certificates valid for one year. Is this possible.
My second question is I need to create a provisioning profile with this new certificate. And I need the bundle identifier as same as the I used with previous certificate. Can I Create provisioning profile using the same App ID I have used to create previous provisioning profile?
Quick question. Our apple developer distribution certificate expires at the end of this month. When it expires it does not effect any apps that are currently up on the app store (that the expiring dist. certificate was used with), correct?
It only means for future distribution a new certificate will need to be created to submit apps to apple, correct?
Im pretty sure i know the answer, just one of my co-workers questioned it and have a little doubt that i need to double check.
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when you cert. expires your already submitted apps will continue to work but you not able to update the apps until you renew your account.And yes you already know the answer
We're one step away from our first AppStore deployment. Unfortunately we have to deploy under our customer's account (to show the correct company name)
At the moment we do not have access to the account's provisioning portal. My question is:
I could ask my customer to generate a distribution provisioning profile and send the *.mobileprovision file to me. Then I would ask them to create an iTunes connect developer account for me. Would this be sufficient for me to build the App on my box and to deploy it in the AppStore?
Or do I need my customer's Distribution Cetrificate (especially the private key - which he might not want to give away)?
Thanks four your help
Yes you will need the certificate, private key as well as the mobileprovision file for deployment.
hmm.. i m pretty new to.. But i think to deploy ur app on appstore u need to have ur clients submission certificate and a distribution provisioning profile.
hope it helps somehow... regards.
I generated an ad-hoc profile which shows up the expiry date of June 25, 2079. Is this correct or a bug in the provisioning portal?
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I think it was a bug because Apple has revoked all the provisioning profiles we created in the last week that had this 2070 issue.
It appears that sometime this week Apple changed the rules on expiration for new distribution certificates. Instead of expiring when your program period runs out they are expiring in 2079. I've been able to successfully submit an app using the new certificate so at least right now this seems to be just fine.
2079 here for me too! Glad others are seeing no errors with it. I have been using the new Provision for Ad Hoc without fault. Googling 2079 and Provision brings us to this page.
I also had a provisioning profile with the 2079 expiration date. Apple let me submit one version of the app with this profile but as of today it says it is an invalid signature so I guess they changed the policy (without telling anyone).