How to generate iOS Application for In-House Distribution

Sachin Khard
1 min readAug 6, 2021

In order to generate iOS application .ipa file, user must have Apple Developer Enterprise Programme license.

A). If user doesn’t have Apple Developer Enterprise Programme license, user can follow below reference links to register for Apple Developer Enterprise Programme.

Registration Portal Link -

https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/

Registration Steps -

https://sachinkhard.medium.com/how-to-get-an-apple-enterprise-app-developer-license-1dc368818c40

B). If user have Apple Developer Enterprise Programme license, user can login with Apple ID and password to apple enterprise account and generate certificate and profile to distribute iOS application via MDM.

Login portal -

https://idmsa.apple.com/IDMSWebAuth/signin?appIdKey=891bd3417a7776362562d2197f89480a8547b108fd934911bcbea0110d07f757&path=%2Faccount%2F&rv=1

Developer need following to generate the iOS application .ipa file -

  1. Create App ID
  2. Share Distribution certificate with private key with developer
  3. Share Universal Distribution provisioning profile with developer

Admin user can follow below links where I have shared step by step process in detail to create new App ID, generate distribution certificate, provisioning profile from scratch.

  1. https://sachinkhard.medium.com/how-to-create-app-id-for-ios-apps-41a8ede6cbda
  2. https://sachinkhard.medium.com/how-to-export-code-signing-certificate-for-ios-apps-a29a73829fde
  3. https://sachinkhard.medium.com/how-to-create-in-house-distribution-provisioning-profile-5cc972cfbc4d

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