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I am developing an iOS app of which my clients would like roughly 50 people to beta test. However, I don't want to have to keep adding UDIDs to my developer portal account and to generate a new provisioning profile each time. Is there a way in which I can distribute the beta without having to go through the aforementioned painful process of adding a new user? I'm thinking something automatic!

Look forward to hearing your responses!

max_
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  • I think it is unavoidable, however, instead of inviting everyone via e-mail on Testflight, you can create a url that will sign people up to your beta testers. At the end, you can use Testflight to export all the UDID's into a txt file and use that to register people to Apple Provisioning portal. – Kaan Dedeoglu May 02 '12 at 01:08
  • I'm not using testflight – max_ May 02 '12 at 01:16
  • @max_ is there any reason why you're not using Testflight? – ThomasW May 02 '12 at 01:18

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The developer portal has an option in which you upload a list of your user's UDIDs (look in the device tab and click "Upload file"). Just prepare your beta user's UDIDs and upload once, then you can just generate an ad hoc profile once and wirelessly distribute this.

Note the file format should be (tab delimited):

device_id_hex_40_chars    description_text
...                       ...

The first line of the file is ignored, so you can add a header.

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  • Thanks, but theres always going to be that one person who signs up after I upload the tab delimited file. I'd there no way around having to regenerate provisioning profiles because of that one person? – max_ May 02 '12 at 01:17
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Using a standard individual Developer enrollment, testing any app on stock OS iOS devices requires generating profiles with each device's UDID. No exceptions.

So you have to keep adding UDIDs to your developer portal (or let testflight gather them for you), or tell the client no more. (I would consider charging the client a sufficiently large additional amount for each extra device to be added after the initial batch, that you will become happy to do so, instead of it being a "painful" task.)

The Enterprise program can only be used for employees of the enrolled developer, not clients or customers. If your client has a D&B rating, then they might be able to enroll themselves in this program to allow distribution to their employees without gathering UDIDs.

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If you're willing to pay the $299, then you can join the iOS Enterprise Developer program and distribute applications using iOS Enterprise distribution. This lets you distribute to an unlimited number of users.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/

Otherwise I'd suggest Testflight.

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  • It appears Apple's Enterprise program disallows giving out your Enterprise signed app to external clients. See @hotpaw2 answer – stonedauwg May 09 '16 at 20:26
  • You can give the software to external clients, but each device needs to be registered. Using systems like TestFlight can make the registration easy. – ThomasW May 10 '16 at 00:01