Re-sign IPA iPhone

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I currently build all my applications with hudson using xcodebuild followed by a xcrun without any problems  I ve received a couple of IPA files from different people that I would like to re-sign with a enterprise account instead of the corporate account  for the app store  or sometimes ad-hoc distributed    My problem is that when I try to resign the app  it won t install on my device  and it should since it s a Enterprise build   The error message is on the device  not in iTunes  and it tells me simply that it couldn t install the app  No more information is given   I ve found some information    http   www ketzler de 2011 01 resign-an-iphone-app-insert-new-bundle-id-and-send-to-xcode-organizer-for-upload     And this might be possible  The problem I m facing is that it doesn t seem to embed the mobile provisioning profile as I do with my normal builds  using xcrun  is this possible to control with the codesign tool  or is it possible to re-sign with xcrun   With my resign script i currently do   unzip app ipa appname   ls Payload  xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -s   provisioning profile    project dir Payload  appname  -o   project dir app-resigned ipa  --sign   provisioning profile  --embed   mobileprovision    I ve looked in the resulting ipa file and it seems to be very similar to the original app  What files should really change here  I initially thought the the  CodeSignature CodeResources would change  but the content looks pretty much exactly the same   Pointers are much appreciated

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Checked with Mac OS High Sierra and Xcode 10

You can simply implement the same using the application iResign.

Give path of 1).ipa

2) New provision profile

3) Entitlement file (Optional, add only if you have entitlement)

4) Bundle id

5) Distribution Certificate

You can see output .ipa file saved after re-sign

Simple and powerful tool

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I successfully followed this answer  but since entitlements have changed  I simply removed the --entitlements  Payload Application app Entitlements plist  part of the second to last statement  and it worked like a charm

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Thank you  Erik  for posting this  This worked for me  I d like to add a note about an extra step I needed  Within  Payload Application app   there was a directory named  CACertChains  that contained a file named  cacert pem   I had to remove the directory and the  pem to complete these steps  Thanks again

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In 2020  I did it with Fastlane - Here is the command I used   fastlane run resign ipa  quot  Users my user path to app ipa quot  signing identity  quot iPhone Distribution  MY Company  XXXXXXXX  quot  provisioning profile  quot  Users my user path to profile mobileprovision quot  bundle id com company new bundle name  Full docs here - https   docs fastlane tools actions resign

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Finally got this working   Tested with a IPA signed with cert1 for app store submission with no devices added in the provisioning profile  Results in a new IPA signed with a enterprise account and a mobile provisioning profile for in house deployment  the mobile provisioning profile gets embedded to the IPA    Solution   Unzip the IPA  unzip Application ipa   Remove old CodeSignature  rm -r  Payload Application app  CodeSignature   Payload Application app CodeResources  2 gt   dev null   true   Replace embedded mobile provisioning profile  cp  MyEnterprise mobileprovision   Payload Application app embedded mobileprovision    Re-sign   usr bin codesign -f -s  iPhone Distribution  Certificate Name  --resource-rules  Payload Application app ResourceRules plist   Payload Application app    Re-package  zip -qr  Application resigned ipa  Payload   Edit  Removed the Entitlement part  see alleys comment  thanks

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None of these resigning approaches were working for me  so I had to work out something else   In my case  I had an IPA with an expired certificate  I could have rebuilt the app  but because we wanted to ensure we were distributing exactly the same version  just with a new certificate   we did not want to rebuild it   Instead of the ways of resigning mentioned in the other answers  I turned to Xcode   s method of creating an IPA  which starts with an  xcarchive from a build    I duplicated an existing  xcarchive and started replacing the contents   I ignored the  dSYM file   I extracted the old app from the old IPA file  via unzipping  the app is the only thing in the Payload folder  I moved this app into the new  xcarchive  under Products Applications replacing the app that was there  I edited Info plist  editing   ApplicationProperties ApplicationPath ApplicationProperties CFBundleIdentifier ApplicationProperties CFBundleShortVersionString ApplicationProperties CFBundleVersion Name  I moved the  xcarchive into Xcode   s archive folder  usually  Users xxxx Library Developer Xcode Archives  In Xcode  I opened the Organiser window  picked this new archive and did a regular  in this case Enterprise  export    The result was a good IPA that works

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If your APP is built using Flutter tools  please examine the codesign info for all pod extensions  codesign -d --verbose 4 Runner app Frameworks xxx framework   amp  grep  Authority    The result should be the name of your team  Run the shell script below to codesign all extensions  IDENTITY  lt prefix of Team ID number gt  ENTITLEMENTS  lt entitlements plist gt  find Payload Runner app -type d -name   framework    xargs -I      codesign -s  IDENTITY -f --entitlements  ENTITLEMENTS      And finally don t forget to codesign the Runner app itself

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I think the easiest is to use Fastlane  sudo gem install fastlane -NV hash -r   for bash rehash   for zsh fastlane sigh resign   path app ipa --signing identity  quot Apple Distribution  Company Name quot  -p  quot my mobileprovision quot

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With Fastlane sigh s resign option you can do this very easily   sigh resign -p  lt path-to-profile-with-mobileprovision-ext gt  -i  lt code-sighning-identity-of-your-app gt    You can download the profile using sigh also  just before the command

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The answers to this question are a little out of date and missing potentially key steps  so this is an updated guide for installing an app from an external developer   ----- How to Resign an iOS App -----  Let s say you receive an app  e g  MyApp ipa  from another developer  and you want to be able to install and run it on your devices  by using ideviceinstaller  for example    Prepare New Signing Assets  The first step is to attain a Provisioning Profile which includes all of the devices you wish to install and run on  Ensure that the profile contains a certificate that you have installed in your Keychain Access  e g  iPhone Developer  Some Body  XXXXXXXXXX     Download the profile  MyProfile mobileprovision  so you can replace the profile embedded in the app   Next  we are going to prepare an entitlements file to include in the signing  Open up your terminal and run the following     security cms -D -i path to MyProfile mobileprovision  gt  provision plist   This will create an xml file describing your Provisioning Profile  Next  we want to extract the entitlements into a file      usr libexec PlistBuddy -x -c  Print  Entitlements  provision plist  gt  entitlements plist   Replace The Provisioning Profile and Resign App  If you are working with a  ipa file  first  unzip the app  if you have a  app instead  you can skip this step      unzip MyApp ipa   Your working directory will now contain Payload  and Payload MyApp app   Next  remove the old code signature files     rm -rf Payload MyApp app  CodeSignature   Replace the existing provisioning profile  i e  embedded mobileprovision  with your own     cp path to MyProfile mobileprovision Payload MyApp app embedded mobileprovision   Now sign the app with the certificate included in your provisioning profile and the entitlements plist that you created earlier      usr bin codesign -f -s  iPhone Developer  Some Body  XXXXXXXXXX   --entitlements entitlements plist Payload MyApp app   IMPORTANT  You must also resign all frameworks included in the app  You will find these in Payload MyApp app Frameworks  If the app is written in Swift or if it includes any additional frameworks these must be resigned or the app will install but not run      usr bin codesign -f -s  iPhone Developer  Some Body  XXXXXXXXXX   --entitlements entitlements plist Payload MyApp app Frameworks     You can now rezip the app     zip -qr MyApp-resigned ipa Payload   Done  You may now remove the Payload directory since you have your original app  MyApp ipa  and your resigned version  MyApp-resigned ipa   You can now install MyApp-resigned ipa on any device included in your provisioning profile

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I tried all the Solution but finally I am able to create resign ipa with these commands Resign Certificates   is the ipa name and also app name  PROVISION is the path of the provision profile  CERTIFICATE is the name of the certificate in key chain full name  Common name when double click on the certificate     Go the Directory where want to create the new ipa with resign certificates   Pase all the files there ipa  certificate and mobileprovision and also install the certificate  security cms -D -i path to MyProfile mobileprovision  gt  provision plist  Call this command and replace mobile provision with path of the file    usr libexec PlistBuddy -x -c  Print  Entitlements  provision plist  gt  entitlements plist  Hit this command   unzip -q   ipa  rm -rf Payload   app  CodeSignature    usr libexec PlistBuddy Payload   app Info plist   After this command we have to add new bundle ID if we don   t need to change bundle id Then we can ignore these 3 steps     7   Set  CFBundleIdentifier    com mycompany newbundleidentifier     This should be new bundle ID  8   save 9   quit    cp  PROVISION Payload   app embedded mobileprovision  codesign -d --entitlements  entitlements plist Payload   app   Try to ignore this command if app doesn   t work then next time use this command   codesign -f -s  quot  CERTIFICATE quot  --entitlements entitlements plist Payload  app Frameworks   codesign -f -s  quot  CERTIFICATE quot  --entitlements entitlements plist Payload   app   zip -qr resigned ipa Payload    https   stackoverflow com a 37172815 https   stackoverflow com a 50392448 https   coderwall com p qwqpnw resign-ipa-with-new-cfbundleidentifier-and-certificate

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If you have an app with extensions and or a watch app and you have multiple provisioning profiles for each extension watch app then you should use this script to re-sign the ipa file   Re-signing script at Github  Here is an example of how to use this script     resign sh YourApp ipa  iPhone Distribution  YourCompanyOrDeveloperName  -p  lt path to provisioning profile for app gt  mobileprovision -p  lt path to provisioning profile for watchkitextension gt  mobileprovision -p  lt path to provisioning profile for watchkitapp gt  mobileprovision -p  lt path to provisioning profile for todayextension gt  mobileprovision  resignedYourApp ipa   You can include other extension provisioning profiles too by adding it with yet another -p option    For me - all the provisioning profiles were signed by the same certificate signing identity

[iphone] Re-sign IPA (iPhone)

Checked with Mac OS High Sierra and Xcode 10

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