How can I deploy an iPhone application from Xcode to a real iPhone device

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How can I deploy an iPhone application from Xcode to real iPhone device without having a US 99 Apple certificate

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This really all depends on what version of Xcode you are using as different versions use different methods to deploy to your iPhone without a provisioning profile.

Xcode 3.2.1 is a good version and is easy to sort out, but we need to know what version you are using.

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You can t  not if you are talking about applications built with the official SDK and deploying straight from xcode

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Nothing I ve seen anywhere indicates you can ad-hoc deploy to a real iPhone without a  paid for  certificate

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You ll have to jailbreak your device

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No  its easy to do this  In Xcode  set the Active Configuration to Release  Change the device from Simulator to Device - whatever SDK  If you want to directly export to your iPhone  connect it to your computer  Press Build and Go  If your iPhone is not connected to your computer  a message will come up saying that your iPhone is not connected   If this applies to you   iPhone was not connected   Go to your projects folder and then to the build folder inside  Go to the Release-iphoneos folder and take the app inside  drag and drop on iTunes icon  When you sync your iTouch device  it will copy it to your device  It will also show up in iTunes as a application for the iPhone   Hope this helps   P S   If it says something about a certificate not being valid  just click on the project in Xcode  the little project icon in the file stack to the left  and press Apple I  or do Get Info from the menu bar  Click on Build at the top  Under Code Signing  change Code Signing Identity - Any iPhone OS Device to be Don t Sign

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I was going through the Apple Developer last night and there in the Provisioning Certificate I found something like -  Signing Team Members   I think there is a way to add team members to the paid profile  You can just ask to the App Id Owner paid one  to add you as a team member  I am not sure  Still searching on that

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You can t  not if you are talking about applications built with the official SDK and deploying straight from xcode

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Solution posted by Cawas works perfectly with XCode4  too  However  there are some changes to IDE s UI  so you need to make some research to find Run Script     In the Project Navigator view click the root item of the project  then in the middle window select Target  then click Build Phases tab and at the bottom you ll see Add Build Phase button  click and select Add Run Script  then paste  codesign  script posted by Cawas

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There is a way to deploy iPhone apps without paying to apple You ll have to jailbreak your device and follow the instructions in http   www alexwhittemore com  p 398

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It sounds like the application isn t signed  Download ldid from Cydia and then use it like so  ldid -S  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph  Also be sure that the binary is marked as executable  chmod  x  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph

User · Answer

You can t  not if you are talking about applications built with the official SDK and deploying straight from xcode

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There is no workaround  You can only ad hoc deploy apps if they are registered with your device  This prevents you from building your own app store

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Nothing I ve seen anywhere indicates you can ad-hoc deploy to a real iPhone without a  paid for  certificate

User · Answer

There is a way to deploy iPhone apps without paying to apple You ll have to jailbreak your device and follow the instructions in http   www alexwhittemore com  p 398

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I ve used a mix of two howtos  Jason s and alex s  With the second we have the advantage of being able to debug  I ll mostly just copy both below  and simplify alex s    Update Jan 2012  this still works on SDK 4 2 1 and iOS 5 0 1 - I ve just tested it all on a new computer and device     1  Create Self-Signed Certificate  Patch your iPhone SDK to allow the use of this certificate    Launch Keychain Access app  With no items selected  from the Keychain menu select Certificate Assistant  then Create a Certificate    Name  iPhone Developer Certificate Type  Code Signing Let me override defaults  Yes  Click Continue   Validity  3650 days  Click Continue Blank out the Email address field  Click Continue until complete   You should see  This root certificate is not trusted   This is expected  Set the iPhone SDK to allow the self-signed certificate to be used   sudo  usr bin sed -i  bak  s XCiPhoneOSCodeSignContext XCCodeSignContext    Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Info plist   If you have Xcode open  restart it for this change to take effect    And if you re on iOS 5  that s it  Try it now  It may not allow debugging  but the app will be there   I was very surprised by this because  as you should know  I ve got no idea on what all those hackings are all about  All I did was improving a little bit what I found elsewhere  as I pointed   So yeah  the whole method doesn t work the same way anymore and I couldn t bother to find a new one    Except for this  which uses a tool called Theos but I couldn t go through the whole process   Finally  if you need to uninstall it for whatever reason  check the end of this post  In my case  I had to because I couldn t figure out why all of the blue this whole method stopped working  and I couldn t care anymore since we ve already got the long waited license   Freaking DUNS number takes so long                       2  Enable Xcode s to Build on Jailbroken Device   On your jailbroken iPhone  install the app AppSync by adding source    http   repo hackyouriphone org   Remove SDK requirements for code sign and entitlements  I m loving sed     sudo  usr bin sed -i  bak    REQUIRED N s YES NO    Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS5 0 sdk SDKSettings plist  Pay attention to the iPhoneOS5 0 sdk part  If you re  for instance  using iOS 4 2 SDK  just replace it accordingly   sudo  usr bin sed -i  bak    REQUIRED N s YES NO    Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS4 2 sdk SDKSettings plist  Conclude the requirement removal through patching Xcode  This means binary editing   cd  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer Library Xcode Plug-ins iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support xcplugin Contents MacOS  dd if iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support of working bs 500 count 255 printf   xc3 x26 x00 x00   gt  gt  working  bin mv -n iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support original  bin mv working iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support chmod a x iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support   If you have Xcode open  restart it for this change  and last one  to take effect  Open  Project Edit Project Settings   from the menu   Click on the  Build  tab  Find  Code Signing Identity  and its child  Any iPhoneOS Device  in the list  and set both to the entry  Don t Code Sign      After this feel free to undo step 3  At least in my case it went just fine  Setting Xcode to code sign with our custom made self-signed certificate  the first how-to   This step can probably be skipped if you don t want to be able to debug   mkdir  Developer iphoneentitlements401 cd  Developer iphoneentitlements401 curl -O http   www alexwhittemore com iphone gen entitlements txt mv gen entitlements txt gen entitlements py chmod 777 gen entitlements py   Plug your iPhone in and open Xcode  Open Window Organizer  Select the device from the list on the left hand side  and click  Use for development   You ll be prompted for a provisioning website login  click cancel  It s there to make legitimate provisioning easier  but doesn t make illegitimate not-provisioning more difficult   Now You have to do this last part for every new project you make  Go to the menu Project   New Build Phase   New Run Script Build Phase  In the window  copy paste this   export CODESIGN ALLOCATE  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer usr bin codesign allocate if      PLATFORM NAME       iphoneos     then  Developer iphoneentitlements401 gen entitlements py  my company   PROJECT NAME      BUILT PRODUCTS DIR    WRAPPER NAME    PROJECT NAME  xcent   codesign -f -s  iPhone Developer  --entitlements    BUILT PRODUCTS DIR    WRAPPER NAME    PROJECT NAME  xcent     BUILT PRODUCTS DIR    WRAPPER NAME    fi                  Uninstalling  For the 1st part   sudo mv -f  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Info plist bak  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Info plist   For the 2nd part   sudo mv -f  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS5 0 sdk SDKSettings plist bak  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS5 0 sdk SDKSettings plist sudo mv -f iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support original iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support   in case you did do the step 3 instead of 2  simply modify it accordingly as well   sudo mv -f  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS4 2 sdk SDKSettings plist bak  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS4 2 sdk SDKSettings plist   for the rest  is just reverting what you did on XCode and deleting  Developer iphoneentitlements401 gen entitlements py if you want   sudo rm -f  Developer iphoneentitlements401 gen entitlements py

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It sounds like the application isn t signed  Download ldid from Cydia and then use it like so  ldid -S  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph  Also be sure that the binary is marked as executable  chmod  x  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph

User · Answer

I was going through the Apple Developer last night and there in the Provisioning Certificate I found something like -  Signing Team Members   I think there is a way to add team members to the paid profile  You can just ask to the App Id Owner paid one  to add you as a team member  I am not sure  Still searching on that

User · Answer

I ve used a mix of two howtos  Jason s and alex s  With the second we have the advantage of being able to debug  I ll mostly just copy both below  and simplify alex s    Update Jan 2012  this still works on SDK 4 2 1 and iOS 5 0 1 - I ve just tested it all on a new computer and device     1  Create Self-Signed Certificate  Patch your iPhone SDK to allow the use of this certificate    Launch Keychain Access app  With no items selected  from the Keychain menu select Certificate Assistant  then Create a Certificate    Name  iPhone Developer Certificate Type  Code Signing Let me override defaults  Yes  Click Continue   Validity  3650 days  Click Continue Blank out the Email address field  Click Continue until complete   You should see  This root certificate is not trusted   This is expected  Set the iPhone SDK to allow the self-signed certificate to be used   sudo  usr bin sed -i  bak  s XCiPhoneOSCodeSignContext XCCodeSignContext    Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Info plist   If you have Xcode open  restart it for this change to take effect    And if you re on iOS 5  that s it  Try it now  It may not allow debugging  but the app will be there   I was very surprised by this because  as you should know  I ve got no idea on what all those hackings are all about  All I did was improving a little bit what I found elsewhere  as I pointed   So yeah  the whole method doesn t work the same way anymore and I couldn t bother to find a new one    Except for this  which uses a tool called Theos but I couldn t go through the whole process   Finally  if you need to uninstall it for whatever reason  check the end of this post  In my case  I had to because I couldn t figure out why all of the blue this whole method stopped working  and I couldn t care anymore since we ve already got the long waited license   Freaking DUNS number takes so long                       2  Enable Xcode s to Build on Jailbroken Device   On your jailbroken iPhone  install the app AppSync by adding source    http   repo hackyouriphone org   Remove SDK requirements for code sign and entitlements  I m loving sed     sudo  usr bin sed -i  bak    REQUIRED N s YES NO    Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS5 0 sdk SDKSettings plist  Pay attention to the iPhoneOS5 0 sdk part  If you re  for instance  using iOS 4 2 SDK  just replace it accordingly   sudo  usr bin sed -i  bak    REQUIRED N s YES NO    Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS4 2 sdk SDKSettings plist  Conclude the requirement removal through patching Xcode  This means binary editing   cd  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer Library Xcode Plug-ins iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support xcplugin Contents MacOS  dd if iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support of working bs 500 count 255 printf   xc3 x26 x00 x00   gt  gt  working  bin mv -n iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support original  bin mv working iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support chmod a x iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support   If you have Xcode open  restart it for this change  and last one  to take effect  Open  Project Edit Project Settings   from the menu   Click on the  Build  tab  Find  Code Signing Identity  and its child  Any iPhoneOS Device  in the list  and set both to the entry  Don t Code Sign      After this feel free to undo step 3  At least in my case it went just fine  Setting Xcode to code sign with our custom made self-signed certificate  the first how-to   This step can probably be skipped if you don t want to be able to debug   mkdir  Developer iphoneentitlements401 cd  Developer iphoneentitlements401 curl -O http   www alexwhittemore com iphone gen entitlements txt mv gen entitlements txt gen entitlements py chmod 777 gen entitlements py   Plug your iPhone in and open Xcode  Open Window Organizer  Select the device from the list on the left hand side  and click  Use for development   You ll be prompted for a provisioning website login  click cancel  It s there to make legitimate provisioning easier  but doesn t make illegitimate not-provisioning more difficult   Now You have to do this last part for every new project you make  Go to the menu Project   New Build Phase   New Run Script Build Phase  In the window  copy paste this   export CODESIGN ALLOCATE  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer usr bin codesign allocate if      PLATFORM NAME       iphoneos     then  Developer iphoneentitlements401 gen entitlements py  my company   PROJECT NAME      BUILT PRODUCTS DIR    WRAPPER NAME    PROJECT NAME  xcent   codesign -f -s  iPhone Developer  --entitlements    BUILT PRODUCTS DIR    WRAPPER NAME    PROJECT NAME  xcent     BUILT PRODUCTS DIR    WRAPPER NAME    fi                  Uninstalling  For the 1st part   sudo mv -f  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Info plist bak  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Info plist   For the 2nd part   sudo mv -f  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS5 0 sdk SDKSettings plist bak  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS5 0 sdk SDKSettings plist sudo mv -f iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support original iPhoneOS  Build  System  Support   in case you did do the step 3 instead of 2  simply modify it accordingly as well   sudo mv -f  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS4 2 sdk SDKSettings plist bak  Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS4 2 sdk SDKSettings plist   for the rest  is just reverting what you did on XCode and deleting  Developer iphoneentitlements401 gen entitlements py if you want   sudo rm -f  Developer iphoneentitlements401 gen entitlements py

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Free Provisioning after Xcode 7 In order to test your app on a real device rather than pay the Apple Developer fee  or jailbreak your device   you can use the new free provisioning that Xcode 7 and iOS 9 supports  Here are the steps taken more or less from the documentation  which is pretty good  so give it a read   1  Add your Apple ID in Xcode Go to XCode  gt  Preferences  gt  Accounts tab  gt  Add button      gt  Add Apple ID  See the docs for more help   2  Click the General tab in the Project Navigator  3  Choose your Apple ID from the Team popup menu   4  Connect your device and choose it in the scheme menu   5  Click the Fix Issues button  If you get an error about the bundle name being invalid  change it to something unique  6  Run your app In Xcode  click the Build and run button   7  Trust the app developer in the device settings After running your app  you will get a security error because the app you want to run is not from the App Store   On your device  go to Settings  gt  General  gt  Profile  gt  your-Apple-ID-name  gt  Trust your-Apple-ID-name  gt  Trust  8  Run your app on your device again  That s it  You can now run your own  or any other apps that you have the source code for  without having to dish out the  99 dollars  Thank you  Apple  for finally allowing this

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It sounds like the application isn t signed  Download ldid from Cydia and then use it like so  ldid -S  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph  Also be sure that the binary is marked as executable  chmod  x  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph

User · Answer

This really all depends on what version of Xcode you are using as different versions use different methods to deploy to your iPhone without a provisioning profile.

Xcode 3.2.1 is a good version and is easy to sort out, but we need to know what version you are using.

User · Answer

There is no workaround  You can only ad hoc deploy apps if they are registered with your device  This prevents you from building your own app store

User · Answer

You ll have to jailbreak your device

User · Answer

Solution posted by Cawas works perfectly with XCode4  too  However  there are some changes to IDE s UI  so you need to make some research to find Run Script     In the Project Navigator view click the root item of the project  then in the middle window select Target  then click Build Phases tab and at the bottom you ll see Add Build Phase button  click and select Add Run Script  then paste  codesign  script posted by Cawas

User · Answer

You ll have to jailbreak your device

User · Answer

Free Provisioning after Xcode 7 In order to test your app on a real device rather than pay the Apple Developer fee  or jailbreak your device   you can use the new free provisioning that Xcode 7 and iOS 9 supports  Here are the steps taken more or less from the documentation  which is pretty good  so give it a read   1  Add your Apple ID in Xcode Go to XCode  gt  Preferences  gt  Accounts tab  gt  Add button      gt  Add Apple ID  See the docs for more help   2  Click the General tab in the Project Navigator  3  Choose your Apple ID from the Team popup menu   4  Connect your device and choose it in the scheme menu   5  Click the Fix Issues button  If you get an error about the bundle name being invalid  change it to something unique  6  Run your app In Xcode  click the Build and run button   7  Trust the app developer in the device settings After running your app  you will get a security error because the app you want to run is not from the App Store   On your device  go to Settings  gt  General  gt  Profile  gt  your-Apple-ID-name  gt  Trust your-Apple-ID-name  gt  Trust  8  Run your app on your device again  That s it  You can now run your own  or any other apps that you have the source code for  without having to dish out the  99 dollars  Thank you  Apple  for finally allowing this

User · Answer

It sounds like the application isn t signed  Download ldid from Cydia and then use it like so  ldid -S  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph  Also be sure that the binary is marked as executable  chmod  x  Applications AccelerometerGraph app AccelerometerGraph

User · Answer

You ll have to jailbreak your device

User · Answer

No  its easy to do this  In Xcode  set the Active Configuration to Release  Change the device from Simulator to Device - whatever SDK  If you want to directly export to your iPhone  connect it to your computer  Press Build and Go  If your iPhone is not connected to your computer  a message will come up saying that your iPhone is not connected   If this applies to you   iPhone was not connected   Go to your projects folder and then to the build folder inside  Go to the Release-iphoneos folder and take the app inside  drag and drop on iTunes icon  When you sync your iTouch device  it will copy it to your device  It will also show up in iTunes as a application for the iPhone   Hope this helps   P S   If it says something about a certificate not being valid  just click on the project in Xcode  the little project icon in the file stack to the left  and press Apple I  or do Get Info from the menu bar  Click on Build at the top  Under Code Signing  change Code Signing Identity - Any iPhone OS Device to be Don t Sign

User · Answer

You can t  not if you are talking about applications built with the official SDK and deploying straight from xcode

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