Create a Certificate for Development

Create a Certificate for Development

To run an app on an iOS device, you need to create it with 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 the 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 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.

Procedure

1. Open iOS Dev Center in your favorite browser and log in.
2. Click Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles.
3. In the drop-down menu in the top left corner, verify that iOS, tvOS, watchOS is selected.
4. In the left-hand sidebar, select Certificates → Development.
5. Click +.
6. Select iOS App Development and click Continue.
7. On the About Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) page, click Continue.
8. On the Generate your certificate page, click Choose File.
9. Browse to the location where the CSR file for your code signing request is stored, select it, and confirm the upload.
10. Click Continue.
11. (Optional) Click Download to download your certificate.
12. Click Done.

Next Steps

Create a development provisioning profile in the iOS Dev Center.