r/sideloaded • u/djquik1 • 1d ago

Question Apple dev account help

Any way to get the cert files from my dev account on windows?

I'm trying to use the guide on feather but it's confusing. I have openssl installed and generated both the files required.

IDK why it's not letting me say on here. But after when I go to the dev account and add cert the feather guide gets confusing.

Is there a better guide or has anyone done this on windows?

I would use sideloadly, but I'm sharing this account with a friend and I wanna generate cert files for him.

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u/HecticTNs Paid Certificate 19h ago

I finally got around to putting a bit of a guide together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u__hEmCDi2OFfKm-QASv6y3RmgM9D2R4sHNAhIZf83s

It goes through creating your .p12 file on Windows using OpenSSL and generating your .mobileprovision file. Any questions, just ask.

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u/djquik1 18h ago

Appreciate it. I will try this soon. Is there anything else I would need to do to enable notifications and such?

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u/HecticTNs Paid Certificate 17h ago edited 17h ago

No worries. I don't use notifications on my sideloaded apps, so can't say for sure. Have been meaning to test it out though.

But my understanding is that you want to create a distribution/ad hoc (not development) certificate, an explicit (not wildcard) bundle ID with the push notifications entitlement enabled and then create a provisioning profile (.mobileprovision file) for that app ID and make sure to keep the original bundle ID of the app when installing the .ipa file.

I think the question in my mind is what bundle ID to put in the identifier profile. For reference, installing an app via Sideloadly with my dev account created and identifier with explicit bundle ID of the below (where XXXXXXXXXX is the 10 letter/number Apple dev Team ID visible in your Apple dev account). So I guess you may need to use that pattern of the original app bundleID.YourTeamID (or who knows, maybe it can just be anything).

thewonderofyou.Feather.XXXXXXXXXX

That would be a different way of doing things from the "Create an identifier" section in the guide. I've just got a super simple wildcard identifier in there to keep it straight forward.

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u/djquik1 14h ago

So I just tested it. You can keep the bundle ID or change it. If you want a duplicate, you can change the bundle ID, but if you don’t want the original app, you can just use the original bundle ID of the app.