Edit provisioning profile from IPA

Question

This is VERY SERIOUS and I need very fast answer because my Demo after 3 hours.

I've IPA with large space sent to my client, on that IPA I've added only one device, after that I've added 8 devices after updating the provisioning profile (which is not updated in the IPA I've sent to my client).

I am asking is there a way to edit my provisioning profile from the IPA I sent to the client?

Can my client add more devices on the provisioning profile from his old IPA?

Answer 1

It's possible to update the provisioning profile inside the IPA and resign the IPA.

A person with an apple developer account can take an IPA created with a provisioning profile for 9 devices and replace the provisioning profile with one that has 20 devices (and resign the IPA).

I've actually created a tool to do just that.

Answer 2

You can't edit the provisioning profile. They're created and signed by Apple.

This might violate your dev program's TOS but a quick fix could be

1. Invite the client to your developer program
2. regenerate the provisioning profile
3. send new provisioning profile to client
4. client resigns IPA with

xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v your.app -opwd/resigned.ipa" --sign client-code-signing-identity --embed new-provisioning-profile.mobileprovision

Answer 3

No The IPA needs to be built against that provisioning profile with all the devices in it. It was changed when you added those devices and needs to be rebuilt.

Allowing a user / application to modify the IPA outside of Xcode would defeat the purpose of all the inbuilt security.

You must rebuild it and send it again.

Answer 4

As far as I know - no. You need to re-create IPA with proper provisioning profile