I have an app which has an expired provisioning profile. It still seems to be in the app store so I assume you only have to update the provisioning profile when you next do an update (is this correct?).
The only problem I have is that the app uses push notifications and they seem to have stopped working, when the provisioning profile expires, do push notifications also stop working?
What would I renew every year? Would I have to create a new certificate, generate new provisioning profiles from that certificate and then recreate the push notification certificates every year?
Thanks for your help!
There is 2 different certificates, one for your app and one for the push in your app.
The Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) certificate, lasts for one
year and must be
renewed annually. You can create a new certificate or renew your older certificate.
Their expiry is not linked to the provisioning profiles that [indirectly] reference them.
Here is a tutorial to help you renewing you certificate : how to renew push certificate
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I have one app available on app store. It is more than 1 year old.
I am using Notifications so I have APNS production certificate.
All distribution certificates and provisioning profiles are expired now.
I want to release an update to the app. Will my notifications break if I release new version by new provisioning profile and distribution certificate?
Your notifications will not break if you upload new certificate.
Suggestion: instead of using APNS Certificate. You can use iOS APNS Auth Key which will be valid till your memebeship is active and moreover it can be used in all the apps which are released under same account. Here are the steps to generate Auth Key,
You need to update your expired apns certificate and update them on the server.
I have an iOS MDM application which contains a set of restrictions to be imposed on the device. While a user enrolls a device , a provisioning profile along with a certificate is pushed on the device. Now the certificate is showing to be expired shortly. What could be the impact of not renewing the certificate. And how Can I renew the certificate.
Any suggestions will be really helpful.
When the certificate expires, your app will stop working. You can renew it by logging into your Apple developer account at https://developer.apple.com and navigating to the Certificates page - you should see your certificate there with the expiration date next to it. There is no option to renew it, but you can revoke the old one and issue a new one.
Once you have the new certificate you'll also need to rebuild the provisioning profile to link it with the new certificate, and then load the new profile onto the device.
My iOS app on the app store uses push notifications. Every year, when my certificate and provisioning profile expire, we need to renew both and use the same so that Push notification keep on working on live apps.
Is there any workaround to increase the expiry time period from one year.
Also, the Apple site mentions that certificate expires in 3 years and provisioning profile in one year but in my developer account it shows that certificate expiry date also after one year. Do certificates also expire in one year?
Also, if certificate is valid and provisioning profile is expired then what would be the behaviour on live apps for push notifications?
In order to keep Push Notifications working, you only need to renew the APN certificate in your server. No provisioning profile to renew for that. That is if you don't want to update the app building new versions.
APN certificates always expire in one year. This certificate is no the developer or release publisher certificate you use with the provisioning profiles to build de app.
And for the last question. If your certificate is valid and the provisioning profile is expired, you don't have to do anything for your living app because push notifications will work if the APN certificate is valid.
I am new to iOS develop this is first time for me to handle certificate which has been expired. After I renew certificate and replace it to server, I am not receiving push notification. I may did some mistake. Please correct me.
Below are the steps i followed:
step1-- Recreate push notification, production type is "Apple Push Services" I know apple do some change, but the development type still is "APNs ..."
If I can use new certificate for development and production environment why apple provide develop choice?
step2-- I also found the Ad Hoc certificate will expire, so I also recreate it, both development and production
step3-- Of course I recreate provisioning profiles, but when I create for development I can't distinguish which certificate is new one, so I revoked the old one.
step4-- Install new certificates and provisioning profile in my mac, then export p12 to server.
Then I can't receive push notification, someone said the new certificate need to update program to fix it, I hope after edit the code push notification will work fine.
But how about development push notification? the development certificate type is the same but I still can't receive push notification, or it caused by renew Ad Hoc certificate ?
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Because the new type of certificate can use for development and production at the same time, so after server side update its code, I test push notification with the new type of certificate both development and production, and this time I get push notification.
Maybe because I have new type of certificate so APNs doesn't accept old type of certificate, is it possible?
Go to Keychain Access, delete all expired certificates. Regenerate your push notification certificates from Developer Center along with new provisional profile.
If my provisioning profiles expired and I renew them, do I also need to renew the certificates used for push notifications? Or I can keep using the old ones as long as they are valid?
Thanks!
You don't need to renew the Push Notification certificates until they expire. Their expiry is not linked to the provisioning profiles that [indirectly] reference them.