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Do I need a paid developer account to manually install a SwiftUI app on my iPhone? If not, how do I do it? And also, will the app only be there for 7 days after which it will expire and I need to rebuild it from Xcode?
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- no. you don't need a paid account, you can deploy your app on a physical device
- yes your app is going to expire and you will need to redeploy it again on your phone
What Jackson-G said plus…
Xcode lets you use any Apple ID to test on your own device. In Xcode’s Signing & Capabilities editor this option shows up as Personal Team. This does have significant limitations. For the details, see Developer > Support > Choosing a Membership.
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@DTS Engineer It seems like getting a provisioning profile to work without a paid developer account is tricky. Xcode is supposed to assign the temporary certificate automatically but I keep getting an error that says:
"Communication with Apple failed Your team has no devices from which to generate a provisioning profile. Connect a device to use or manually add device IDs in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles. https://developer.apple.com/account/"
Obviously, without a paid developer account I can't access that page. Any advice?