A distribution mechanism in Apple's Enterprise Developer Program, for hosting and distributing proprietary apps for a specific organization, outside of the App Store.
Questions tagged [enterprise-distribution]
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Is it safe to share the iOS Enterprise Distribution Certificate with external developers?
I am in the following situation: We have an enterprise developer account and for an app we are working with an external developer.
At the moment we do not have access to the source code so we can't make builds, but we still need to have weekly…

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What happens to existing installed Apps if I edit InHouse Distribution profile?
I have made an iPad In-House Distribution App which is installed in 2000 iPads of my company. Now, I want to enable App group to share few data between my Apps of same developer account. For that, I will have to enable App Groups for my App id and…

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Install iOS in house Distribution Provisioning Profile via Profile Manager
We have a business that provides iPads (~1000 iPads) with our in-house iOS apps, which are managed by our MDM Apple Profile Manager.
We use Apple Developer Enterprise Program to build the in house apps with 3 year expiry certificate and 1 year…

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Make installation link for enterprise iOS app
I have an enterprise account and could successfully create .ipa file with this account. Now our partners can install it by putting the .ipa file to the iTunes and sync their devices.
I have seen that we can put the .ipa on a direct link and users…

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iOS 9.0.2 - Can't Install Enterprise App -Unable to Download App (app name) could not be downloaded at this time
My company has an app that can be downloaded through a website using Enterprise Distribution.
In iOS 9, tapping the download link brings up the expected pop-up "(website) would like to install (App Name)". Tapping 'install' on that dialog first…

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Update Enterprise App in the background
My application will be running in the background and user rarely opens the app. Hence i'm using the Enterprise distribution it will not go to app store. Is there a way to update the application when it is running in the background. When it is in the…

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Download progress bar is not changing progress in iOS enterprise distribution
I am developing and distributing iPad apps via enterprise distribution. They download and execute fine, so everything is ok (the web link, ipa file, plist file, provisioning...).
The "problem" is when the user clicks the link to download, the…

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Ad-hoc distributed app not downloading on iOS 14.0 and above
I have an iPad app that is distributed ad-hoc to users within my organisation. To download the app, users:
Visit an internal web page in Safari
Click a link to a manifest file, which links to the .ipa file
Click 'Install' when prompted, which…

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Is it safe to share iOS distribution certificate with third party developer?
We have an enterprise developer account and for an app we are working with an external developer.
External developer needs to be able to build ipa files for us.
From a security point of view, is it safe/recommended for us to share the distribution…

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Does APNs work with apps distributed inhouse using the Enterprise Distribution program?
Does APNs work with apps distributed inhouse using the Enterprise Distribution program and distributed interanlly from a website?
I found this from this link saying no, but I see vague comments in forums that it is possible:
Apple Push Notification…

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In-House Enterprise Distribution: iOS 7 device "Unable to Download App", iOS 8 device has no issue
I have been developing/distributing an iOS iPad app for over a year, but very recently have encountered a problem. When I run my code on both my iOS 8 iPad and iOS 7 iPad, there are no issues. I then switch to my Enterprise Dist provisioning profile…

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Concise guide to OTA distribution of iOS Apps
Is there a concise guide to signing and distributing apps over the air for iOS? We have an extremely simple app to be distributed in-house to five or six users. Not going to get a $10000 MDM solution.
Apple's documentation is absolutely…

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How to distribute iOS 8.0+ enterprise apps over the air?
I have read several StackOverflow solutions to my question. I started with Enterprise App Update Distribution on iOS8
and tried all provided answers. None helped or worked. I have also found other online solutions which were similar but didn't work…

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xCode6 how to export an app with .plist for enterprise distribution?
I'm trying to upload an app to a website that expects a .plist along with the app's ipa.
The screenshot below is from the website.
I noticed that xCode6 has removed the checkbox to save for enterprise distribution from both the "ad hoc" and…

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How to distribute iPad App to Customer (B2B) with an iOS enterprise account
My company has an iOS Enterprise Account to distribute In-House Apps. Now we want to develop an app for a customer. The question is: How to deploy the app to the customer's employee's devices? I heard about a "B2B Program", but I wasn't able to find…

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