iOS expiring Distribution Provisioning Profile questions

Question

We have an iOS \"In-House\" app (distributed OTA) with a Distribution Provisioning Profile that, as you may know, expires in 1 year. We have gone through upgrading the profile

Answer 1

If you make your app part of the app store they will not expire. You can charge a lot for it and give out redeem codes to your clients or make it free and do some kind to authorization.

I was working with a enterprise customer that had a private distribution to iPads. The iPads were not regality connected a computer to sync apps, but 1 day a year after the provisioning file was made all the remotes sales team lost access to the app. The app was a 1.6 gb download. So that only happened once and the app when to the store as a free app.

Answer 2

If i understand your question correctly, i had the same exact problem this year.

I Actually had to wait until the Profile Expired before i was able to Renew it.

When the profile had Expired, i would go to the Developer Portal's Provisioning Profiles, and on the right side of the Profile, there would now be a new button next to the Edit Button called Re-new.

Clicking Re-new should renew the current profile.

When the profile was renewed, my team would joust Install the updated profile.

(I sent the updated profile by mail, by downloading the profile(s) from the Provisioning Profiles page)

If that option for some reason would not work, you could alternatively create a new Provisioning Profile, with the same App ID and email it to you'r team.

Answer 3

I received a recent response direct from Apple regarding the effect an expired profile has on apps currently residing in the app store:

I understand you'd like to know if you need to delete the expired certificates and provisioning profiles, and whether or not any action taken in the provisioning portal will affect apps currently live on the App Store. I'm happy to assist you in this matter.

Please know that it is not necessary to delete expired items in the provisioning portal, nor will any action taken have any impact on apps currently live in the store.

Not quite sure this answers your entire question but it did help me when I was wondering what would happen to the live apps.