Adding Apple Device UDID for Testing

Introduction

UDID stands for Unique Device Identifier; it is simply a specific serial number for your iDevice. The term “UDID” is occasionally heard when discussing privacy or development topics concerning the iPhone. However, adding UDID is mainly useful for testing a proposed process before submitting to the Apple store as a provisioning profile (.mobileprovision).

The provisioning profile is a preset of the app, user, and device use for testing and submitting processes.

For more details, refer to https://help.apple.com/developer-account/

Login with Apple account.

Go to: https://developer.apple.com/account/

Make sure the account is Apple-Developer-authorized.

After logging in, choose "Certificates, IDs & Profiles" from the menu on the left of the screen.

Next, check current provisioning profile status.

At left, there are selections for Certificates, App, Devices and Provisioning profile

Certificates - contains a list of users who can sign and build the app.

Key - not used

Identifier - this is where one can create an App ID and setup service on the Store.

Device - contains a list of devices for the user to test the app internally.

Provisioning Profile - contains the group of devices and users who can submit the build and test the app.

Click "All" in Provisioning Profiles.

Select a provisioning profile and click "Edit". Make sure you choose the correct app, and that the App ID is entered correctly

On the Editing iOS Provisioning Profiles, you will see Provisioning Name, Type, App ID Certificates and Devices.

There is full list of devices; check if there is an existing UDID, then click the "Generate" button.

If that's not possible, click "Devices" then "All" from the left menu.

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A list of devices will be shown; click the + button to add (register) a device

The user can register one or multiple devices. For one device, add Name as alias name and UDID.

The UDID can be found in iTunes as following:

Open iTunes, select device, and click the "Serial number area"; following that, the text will change to the UDID.

Copy the UDID and paste it to the Apple developer site.

When the Name and UDID is filled, click the Generate button. The device will be added to the Device list.

Go back to the Provisioning profile; then click Edit to add more devices to this Provisioning profile.

Adding device completed.

When creating a build on XCode next time, the same device UDID can install an .ipa file directly as the UDID is added in the .ipa file.