How to: Register an Apple Distribution Certificate

Posted on 1. April 2023 by Jan Bunk

A friendly robot signing a digital certificate on his large wooden desk in a warm office, digital art
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Open the certificate overview

Click the plus button.

Click the plus button.

Select "Apple Distribution".

Select Apple Distribution

Click the 'Continue' button at the top right.

Click here to download your certificate signing request.

Go back to the App Store Connect window and click "Choose File". Upload the certificate signing request you just downloaded.

Screenshot of the choose file field in App Store Connect.

Click the 'Continue' button at the top right.

Click the "Download" button at the top right and upload the downloaded file here. The file name should be something like distribution.cer

The file upload limit is 100MB.

In App Store Connect it might say something about double-clicking the downloaded file to install it, but you don't need to do that. You just need to upload it here.

Make sure to click this button, otherwise we won't receive the entered information and you will need to do the steps again.

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Hi, I'm Jan! I created webtoapp.design in 2019 while studying computer science in university. A lot has changed since then - not only have I graduated, but it's also no longer just me running webtoapp.design. We've grown to a global, fully remote team and have gathered lots of experience around app development and app publishing. We've created and published hundreds of apps in the app stores, where they've been downloaded millions of times.