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.
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My distribution certificate will expire in about a month. I renewed it recently, do I need to renew my Apple Push Services certificate as well?
I am asking this because after I renewed my distribution certificate, I am not receiving any remote notifications on an XCode build.
You have to renew all the certificates which are expired or going to expire for Distribution/Development process.
You should have to renew your APNS certificate based on its expiration If the expiration date of both of the certificate Distribution and APNS is the same.
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.
Today, I realized that My Distribution Certificate has expired and cannot see any certificate under distribution anymore.
Also AppStore provisioning profile is expired but still there. When I want to edit it, of course i need to create a new distribution certificate.
So the question is, will I be able to update my existing App with new certificate?
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when your certificates is expired making following scenario:
1.When your certificate expires, it simply disappears from the Certificates, Identifier & Profiles section of Member Center. There is no Renew button that allows you to renew your certificate.You can revoke a certificate and generate a new one before it expires. Or you can wait for it to expire and disappear, then generate a new certificate.
2.When your development or distribution certificate expires, remove it and request a new certificate in Xcode.
3.When your certificate expires or is revoked, any provisioning profile that made use of the expired/revoked certificate will be reflected as ‘Invalid’. You cannot build and sign any app using these invalid provisioning profiles. As you can imagine, I'd rather revoke and regenerate a certificate before it expires.
4.Apps that are already on the App Store continue to function fine. Again, in
Important: Re-creating your development or distribution certificates doesn’t affect apps that you’ve submitted to the store nor does it affect your ability to update them.
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 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