Introduction

A provisioning profile is a collection of digital entities that uniquely ties developers and devices to an authorized iPhone Development Team and enables those devices to be used for testing (e.g., .mobileprovision).

Prerequisites

• Apple Developer Account: Ensure that you have an Apple Developer account. If you don’t have one, you need to sign up on the Apple Developer website.
• The iOS App ID: Ensure that you have an iOS App ID. If you don’t have one, follow the creating the ios app id blog for more detail.

Steps to Create an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile

• Login to your Apple Developer account.
• Click Profiles on the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles tab.
• Click on the + button to create a new provisioning profile.
• Select the provisioning profile type you want. For example: if you want to submit your iOS app to the App Store, choose App Store and click on Continue.
• Select the App ID you want to use and click on Continue.
• Select the certificate you want to use and click on Continue.
• Enter a name for your provisioning profile and click on Generate.
• Download the provisioning profile and double-click the .mobileprovision file to install it in Xcode.

Conclusion

In this blog post, we learned how to create an App Store distribution provisioning profile. In the next blog post, we’ll learn how to archive and upload an iOS app to the App Store.

References

• iOS - Creating an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile