How to: Register an Image Notification Provisioning Profile

Register a provisioning profile for image notifications in App Store Connect.

Posted on 1. April 2023 by Jan Bunk

An image card being added to a provisioning profile
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Open the profile overview

Click the plus button or 'Generate a profile'.

Provisioning profiles overview with add and Generate a profile controls.

Select 'App Store' in the 'Distribution' section.

Distribution profile types with the App Store option.

Click the 'Continue' button at the top right.

Select the app identifier in the dropdown menu.

If there are multiple, please pay close attention to the names so you pick the one that is the most similar to the name above.
Provisioning profile App ID dropdown with available identifiers.

Click the 'Continue' button at the top right.

Select the distribution certificate that expires on: 1. January 2024

Provisioning profile certificate selection with the certificate's expiration date.

Click the 'Continue' button at the top right.

Name the profile

If you get an error in the next step because a profile with this name already exists, just add a number to it, e.g. 2

Profile generation form with the Provisioning Profile Name field.

Click the 'Generate' 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 .mobileprovision

The file upload limit is 100MB.

On the Apple Developer website 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.