1 week expiry for XCODE APP on phone

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vickic77 OP

Created Nov ’17

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Hi,

I have developed an APP for a client. However, he wants to show this to a few people before releasing onto the Mac App store.

Currently te APP has a one week life on his phone and then it disappears. He will be travelling a fair bit so would like to have on his phone permamnently until such time that he asks for it to be relased on the APP store.

Thanks, Vicki

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Answer 1

KMT OP

Nov ’17

Vicki:

>wants to show this to a few people before releasing onto the Mac App store.

>Currently te APP has a one week life on his phone

Say what? iOS apps are not released via the Mac App Store.

>have on his phone permamnently

There is no dev-related provisioning scheme that is permanent.

Free provisioning (no paid developer account) is good for one week.
TestFlight distribution (via Xcode and a purchased developer account) is good for 28 days.
Local/ad-hoc installs (via Xcode and a purchased developer account), to a device registered in the Member Center, are good for max one year, but not longer than time left on the dev's annual paid account. See https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/TestingYouriOSApp/TestingYouriOSApp.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012582-CH8-SW1

Apps via the store are re-signed by Apple and never expire.

Ken

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Answer 2

KMT OP

Nov ’17

Xcode is free to download via the Mac App Store, but doing so alone won't help.

You and/or your client would need to purchase a Developer Program account to leverage anything beyond the 1 week profiles afforded via free provisioning.

See the 'Programs' link, above.

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