Setup iOS Account for Production

Have you ever tried to publish an iOS app for yourself / a company/ a client? or maybe you are a DevOps trying to setup an iOS build pipeline for Bitrise, Bitbucket, AWS CloudFormation, or some other DevOps platform?
It simply asks for a certificate and a profile, but how to get them? well, I'm trying to help you obtain the required certificate and profile for publication
Let's dive in

Create a distribution certificate

I'll divide the operation into steps, let's start at the beginning

1. Create a certificate request from authority

• Open Keychain Access: Command + Space -> type keychain
  

• Create a certificate request from the main app menu
  

• Use your email address and choose to save the request to disk
  

1. Open the used Apple Developer account https://developer.apple.com/account

2. Choose the correct account namespace (if it has many)
   

3. Choose Certificates
   

4. Create a new certificate
   

5. Select distribution certificate (Apple or iOS)
   

6. Then use the certificate request created before
   

7. Memorize the certificate expiration date, since we don’t have control over the certificate name, and download it
   

Create a profile

1. From the Apple Developer account, choose profiles and create a new one
   

2. Choose the distribution ad-hoc profile
   

3. Select the App ID
   

4. Select the certificate you created before (make sure using the expiration date)
   

5. Select all devices to be tested on
   

6. Name the certificate, something like UserName-AppName profile
   

7. Download the profile
   

Setup the project

1. Select the project, and choose the “Signing & Capabilities” tab
   

2. From the provisioning profile, choose “Import profile.”
   

This should be it. If you have any issues with the new profile, you can enable “Automatically manage signing” and disable it again to allow XCode

We will continue on more tips for iOS in coming tutorials so
Stay tuned 😎