How to Renew Your IOS Distribution Or Development Certificate on Apple-2024?

Step one: Keychain Access

• Search for Keychain Access and open it.

• Keychain Access Panel will open.

• Click Keychain Access menu from the header bar.
• Go to Certificate Assistant.
• Click on ‘Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority…’

• Fill up the personal information.
• Check ‘Saved to Disk’
• Contunue.

• Save the certificate file

• Click ‘Done’.

Step 2: Apple Developer Account

• Go to Apple Developer Account.
• Go to Account page.

• Go to Certificates

• Click on the ‘+’ sign to add a new Certificate.

• Select ‘iOS Distribution (App Store Connect and Ad Hoc)’
• Continue.

• Upload a Certificate signing request file.
• Click Continue

• Download the Certificate.
• Go back to the ‘All Certificates’ page.

As we can see a new iOS. Distribution certificate on the certificate list.

• Go to the Profiles page.

• Click on the app which distribution certificate was expired or about to expire.

• Click ‘Edit’

• Select the newly created Distribution certificate from the certificate list.
• Save the changes.

As we can the distribution certificate has been replaced and the expiry date has been extended.