Do Mac OS apps stop working if your Mac Developer ID Application cert expires?

[Devin Asay]

I’ve done lots of test deployments to devices that are registered in my wildcard provisioning profile. After the cert expires the app no longer runs on the test devices. You have to renew the cert and provisioning profile, re-save and reinstall the app on the device if you want it to work again.

I don’t know if it is different if you are distributing with an app-specific provisioning profile, since I haven’t tried that.

Devin

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Tony Trivia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone know what happens if you let a Mac Developer ID Application cert
> expire? (I'm thinking of apps that are NOT in the Mac app store, but are
> distributed directly to users.)
> 
> I've heard if this cert is revoked, that can block any apps from running
> that were signed with that cert. Just wondering what the effect is if the
> cert just expires.
> 
> Thanks.
> Tony
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Devin Asay
Director
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University