How to Renew iOS distributions certificate

Sahil Pandya
3 min readSep 5, 2021

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Every year we need to renew apple IOS distribution certificate, This distribution certificate is responsible for the generating build, So we need to renew every year.

For Renewing the certificate go to the below links:

Use your apple id and password of your project for login.

Check the list of the certificates in the above list, It will show certificate which is going to expire.

Certificate type will be a distribution certificate which we need to regenerate certificate.

Press on the + button to generate a new certificate,

Select iOS/App distribution certificate and then press on continue button.

Once generated the certificate we will have an option to download the certificate.

After generating the certificate we need to generate profile as well, For that follow below steps:

Create new Profile on press of plus button.
Select your Project App ID.
Select newly created distribution certificate
Provisioning profile created successfully.

Once generated the new provisioning profile, we need to download the profile.

After downloading both the profile and certificate, we need to double press on the certificate and profile, It will be reflected on your project.

Xcode signing & capabilities tab.

Cross check your newly certificate and profile should be reflected here.

Thanks for reading

Hopefully You have found this article useful to regenerate the iOS distribution certificate.

If you have any recommendation please let me know in the below comment section.

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Sahil Pandya
Sahil Pandya

Written by Sahil Pandya

Learning, Exploring, Implementing and then Writing things after experience.

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