Is it possible to customize Apple Developer Program Roles? - ios

We would like to outsource a project for our organization but we don't want to give 'Admin' permissions to consultants and 'Member' permissions aren't sufficient. Is there a way we could customize both the roles or what is our option around presets?
Additional information from Apple - Managing Your Team in Member Center
Thank you in advance!

There's no middle ground. You can either trust them wholeheartedly as Admins, or do all the provisioning process yourself and let them download the files as Members.
Admins cannot touch any of the iTunes Connect stuff, so about the worst they could do is kick people off your developer account or revoke certificates.

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Unable to grant access to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles

I bought an apple developer account and I'm trying to add a user as admin and grant access to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles. But the checkbox is disabled I'm unable to tick it.
I think you have created Apple Developer account as Individual.
To Add other user as Admin with (Certificate, Identifiers & Profiles) access you just need to change your Apple Developer account from Individual to Company / Organisation and then you will be able to grant above access to your added users.
TL;DR:
You need to enrol on the Apple developer program as an organization, and to do this,
you need to be legally registered as an organized, because
you need your "DUNS" number.
Organization account required
Your apple developer account must be an organization to have other developers added via App Store Connect to create their provisioning profiles. It doesn't cost more, it just requires more information / setup.
As per the apple documentation:
Note: If you’re enrolled as an individual and add users in App Store Connect, users receive access only to your content in App Store Connect and are not considered part of your team in the Apple Developer Program.
and
Management of users and roles is done in App Store Connect.
Therefore, you have to be an organization. This does not cost anything extra.
As everyone else, I found Kuldeep's answer useful, but wanted more official documentation.
Although another apple page under "Enrolling in the Apple Developer Program as an individual" says:
If you're an individual or sole proprietor/single-person business, follow these steps to enroll
Company registration required
I called the Apple support team, and the mentioned that they do migrations to Organization accounts for sole proprieters all the time.
You can "try" to find your organization on the DUNS lookup page with valid details. If it doesn't succeed in finding it, it can submit for you.
However, a few days after I submitted the form, I was not given a DUNS number. Instead, I got a reply saying no business exists for this organization. This concludes that you need a business registration. You can see the email at Applying for DUNS Number: 'Apple Tracking Number' and 'Purpose'.
After being on the phone with Apple support, I gave them some constructive feedback: we should have a "team" account, not just "Individual" and "Organization".
Same issue here,
Client add me as as Admin in Appstore, but they missed to give access for
Access to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Once they give Admin access then need to give access for
Access to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Or else they delete your account and add it again, that time give access for all.
The details about all the access and user roles are explained at https://developer.apple.com/support/roles/

Adding a developer to an Apple Developer account

I have an Apple Developer iOS Membership. I have hired a developer to write an iOS app for me. They said they don't have their own account so in order for us to test the app using ad-hoc provisioning we'll need to use my account. When I go to invite users into my account from the Member Center I am given 2 options to add this user as, 1) Admin, 2) Member. Is the correct way to give a developer access and which option should I give them? I want to give the least amount of privileges as possible. I don't want them to access any sensitive account information, just allow them to develop the app and allow for testing.
This is the overview of the roles but I am still not sure which is correct
https://developer.apple.com/support/roles/
It depends on what level of involvement you want to have with the project. In order to manage the full development life-cycle for an app you need to create provisioning files, generate certificates for distribution, generate App IDs ect. You can add you developer as a member but in that case many of these functions will have to be done by you as the admin. In the case of certificates (for distribution, push notifications etc) the 'member' can request them but they still need to be approved by an 'admin'.
So, if you want to give the least amount of privileges stick with the 'member option with the understanding that you will need to be involved periodically.
I guess Member is what you should go for.

Where can I find my role in a Apple Developer Program Team?

I want to know if there's a way for me to see what role I have in an Apple developer team. I was trying to create a provisioning profile for a new device we want to test but the create and edit button are disabled. I think it might be a role restriction but I'm not sure. Where can I find that information in the developer portal.
You are a Member. How do I know? Because if you were an Admin or an Agent, you would see the People tab in the Member Center and you wouldn't be asking this question.
After logging in to the Member Center, click people and you will see all roles. If you cannot see this tab, you are a Member.

Allow Team Member to create App IDs

My company decided to outsource the development of an iOS application. We have added their developers as a Team Member of our iOS Program Developer.
In my point of view, the settings of the App IDs is a critical point, and I would prefer to let them manage it. Am I right?
If yes, is there a solution to let them create/update an App IDs, without giving them a Team Admin role? The point is : We want to let them manage the App IDs, provisioning profile, etc... But we do not want to allow them to distribute any applications on the App Store as a Team Admin could.
Thank you for your anser,
Regards.
There are three roles available: Team Agent, Team Admin, and Team Member. Only the Team Agent has the ability to submit apps. Designating a person to be a Team Admin is common to handle the tasks you described.

iOS code signing as a company not as an individual

I am working at a research center and they asked me how to sign code as a company (rather than as an individual developer).
I have been googling for a while but I haven't found out anything regarding how to do so. I have been looking through apple's documentation too but still nothing. Does anybody here knows how to proceed in this case?
You need to sign up your company for an Apple Developer account, separately from your personal one.
They don't make it clear (at least in the pages that I just scanned), but I believe the company version of the Apple Developer account allows multiple team members.
There's some more useful information at the Developer Account FAQ.
There's no difference when it comes to code-signing. You generate the key pair the same way, you generate the certificate signing request the same way, you create app IDs the same way, you create provisioning profiles the same way, you compile the code the same way.
Your Apple Developer Account needs to be setup as a company, rather than individual. Code signing has nothing to with wether or not your account is setup as a company or not.
When you setup your Developer Account, you need to input what you want to display as the seller name, and you are not able to change this once it is setup, and the process should explain that to you.
I also don't think there is a way to switch over to a company account if you have already setup your developer account as individual, but you can always call Developer Support to see if it can be changed over.

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