OT: How to renew iOS Certificates?

[Chris Sheffield]

Hi Graham,

First, did you mean to say provisioning profiles rather than certificates? I'm pretty sure the certificates expire with your membership. The provisioning profiles don't necessarily, but those are what you need to renew if they are about to expire. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, I think, though I'm not totally sure, that you can simply handle this through Xcode. If you launch Xcode and open the Organizer window then select Provisioning Profiles under Library on the left, you'll see all your installed profiles. Simply click the Refresh button. It'll prompt you for your login info for your Apple dev account (Apple ID), then I believe it will renew those profiles that are about to expire. But I'll be honest, I don't remember the exact procedure myself. Seems like every time I get to this point I have to figure it out all over again. And usually I don't get to the point where my profiles are about to expire, as I'm fairly frequently adding or removing devices from my profiles, which also causes them to renew. Anyway, once you've gone through this process, I'm hoping you'll see new profiles listed with new expiration dates, but you might also have the old ones still. Simply delete the old ones. After that, when you go to build your app in LiveCode, you may have to re-select the profile to build with in the standalone settings.

Also, Xcode 4.5.2 is available. Updating from 4.5.1 is not a big deal. I'd say go ahead and do it. There's a developer preview of Xcode 4.6 out there, but I'd hold off for now.

Hopefully that'll work for you.

Chris

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On Jan 4, 2013, at 4:31 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> I am probably not alone in finding the whole business of administering the iOS development process a bit of a nightmare - a nightmare set in a jungle, perhaps. The thing is, I develop alone, at my own pace, and I don't always remember the way Apple does things.
> 
> Now I find that two certificates I need - a Development Certificate and a Distribution Certificate - are about to expire, in a couple of days in fact. My Developer subscription isn't up until April, so all I want to do is to renew the certificates, but so far I can't find out how to do it. I feel I have searched the iOS Developer's documentation jungle pretty thoroughly, but I haven't found any kind of step-by-step guide. I have a vague feeling that what one has to do is just to let these ones go and create new ones, but I haven't (yet) found any text saying so, and I don't know where this notion came from.
> 
> Could someone very kindly give me some insight into this? And if they're feeling very generous, perhaps that same person could say what version of XCode I should be using with LC 5.5.3. At the moment I'm using 4.5.1 and it works, but there's a newer version, isn't there?
> 
> Thanks to anyone who replies.
> 
> Graham
> 
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