create-development-certificate.md

title	description	position	publish	slug
Create a Certificate for Development	Learn how to create a development certificate in the iOS Dev Center.	3	true	create-development-certificate

Create a Certificate for Development

To run an app on an iOS device, you need to create it with a development or an Ad Hoc distribution provisioning profile. To create a development provisioning profile, you need a development certificate signed by Apple. With this development certificate, you can code sign an app during development in order to deploy it on device.

You can create a development certificate in the iOS Dev Center.

If you are using a Free Apple account, you can use the [code signing assistance]({% slug code-signing-assistance %}) feature of Sidekick to automatically generate temporary development certificate and provisioning profile.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you have created a certificate signing request and stored the corresponding CSR file on your machine. For more information, see [Create a Certificate Signing Request]({% slug create-csr %}).

Procedure

1. Open iOS Dev Center in your favorite browser and log in.
2. Click Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles.
3. In the left-hand sidebar, select Certificates.
4. Click + blue button next to the subtitle bar Certificates to add a new Certificate.
5. Select iOS App Development and click Continue.
6. On the Upload a Certificate Signing Request page, click Choose File.
7. Browse to the location where the CSR file for your code signing request is stored, select it and confirm the upload.
8. Click Continue.
9. (Optional) Click Download to download your certificate.
10. Click All Certificates.

Next Steps

Create a [development provisioning profile]({% slug create-development-provisioning %}) in the iOS Dev Center.