Installing TestFlight on iOS 7

Question

After upgrading my iPhone 5 to iOS 7 beta, it seems I have to re-connect it to Testflight. Unfortunately, I can't install the provisioning profile:

After selecting 'Reconnect Device', 'Install Profile', 'Install Now', the alert is 'Profile Installation Failed. You iPhone is not activated'

I tried to remove the previous profiles, clear Safari cache and reboot, but no success...

Answer 1

I found the answer of Lysann Schlegel most useful. After some experimenting, I found out that simply opening TestFlight from Safari works fine. Don't use TestFlight app icon.

Answer 2

Short answer - Go to TestFlight directly on Mobile Safari and use the TestFlight CocoaPod.

We got TestFlight working on the latest iOS 7 build. The TestFlight "app" that installs doesn't work, but manually visiting the TestFlight site in Mobile Safari allows you to install the profile and load the app. Nothing special needed. It sometimes takes a few tries loading the profile to get it to actually load.

Also, loading our apps into TestFlight wasn't working, so we started using the TestFlight CocoaPod and it works great.

Answer 3

I did a fresh install of iOS 7 beta 6 (it did not have any provisioning profiles before) and was able to load an app from TestFlight. Installing the provisioning profile failed from the web, but I was able to get the correct one onto the device through XCode's Organizer. Then I downloaded the app from TestFlight in Safari (not the little portal TestFlight app). It loaded up just fine.

Answer 4

I'm sorry to say that this is currently untested and is a only workaround, but try downloading the ipa file from the TestFlightApp "Share this build" link and use xcode to install it.

This link is normally provided to allow pre iOS4 users to install using testflightapp.com

Even if this works this workaround is probably unacceptable for a vast majority of beta testers.

I'd say also use the "iphone configuration utility" but I suspect that the current release does not support the iOS beta.

If this does fix the issue for people then it's some confirmation that it's mainly the OTA profile that's at issue.

Answer 5

I got it working on an iPad mini running iOS 7 beta 5, that was previously used with testflight while running iOS 6. It seems that it will work under some circumstances. What I did:

• Unregistered the device from its connected testflight user account (actually this step might be irrelevant)
• Launched testflightapp.com from Safari, not from any icon placed on home screen. It has to be from Safari where the url bar is shown. From here I could install betas. However the device itself is not listed under any user and it is not activated. While trying to activate it, testflight app says the registering works OK, however it really fails.

So, it MIGHT work but it's clear that the people at testflight has some work to do.

More: I am unable to get it working with an iPhone 4 iOS 7 beta 5 at all. The iPhone has not previously been used with testflight and seems to require an activation through that profile (at testflight or Apple, not sure) but the activation fails and there's no app list coming up in Safari, just the activation sequence. The key here might be that the device must have been used with testflight before, while on iOS previous to 7.

It seems that using testflight with iOS 7 beta does not work and/or is not supported at the moment.

Not sure what happened here but I was using testflight with an iPad mini that had iOS6. When I just upgraded it to iOS 7, the testflight site loads on the device, however installs never process.

Answer 6

I had the same problem. In my case after i connect my iphone with the xcode/ organizer beta it let me install again the apps.

Check in Settings if you have the Developer options.