IPA file not installing

Hi am new to this forum and I am not sure if this was the right place to post this question but I'll give it a shot. So I have a developer working on a iOS game for me and he sent me a .ipa file to test out on my iPhone. I imported the file into iTune and when it sycns the app shows up on my phone as downloading it gets have way downloaded but the stops and disapears from my iPhone. Also When I have my phone conntected to my computer and I got the app section of iTune, I see my app ther but the app icon is missing and the date come up as 12/31/03 for some reason.

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So I have a developer working on a iOS game for me and he sent me a

.ipa
file to test out on my iPhone.

There’s any number of possible causes for this. I have two specific hints:

  • Make sure that the

    .ipa
    wasn’t munged in transit; you should have your developer send it to you via a channel that supports integrity checking (a
    .dmg
    is a good way to do this).
  • Install the

    .ipa
    via Apple Configurator, which removes iTunes from the equation.

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