Maintaining the Apple Developer Program

Applicable to Administrators

This topic lists the common admin actions that could affect app distribution and installation, and how to recover from these issues.

• Revoke certificate distribution
• Identifiers are removed
• Devices are removed
• Profiles are removed
• APNs keys are revoked
• App Store Connect API keys are revoked

Action

Trigger

Impact

Recovery

Revoke certificate distribution

Clicking Revoke on the certificate.

The account administrator will receive an email from Apple that the certificate was revoked.

Users will not be able to install the app, and currently installed apps will fail to launch in a few days.

Contact TeleMessage support.

Identifiers are removed

Clicking Remove on an Identifier.

TeleMessage will not be able to add any more UDIDs to the existing app or build future versions.

Contact TeleMessage support.

Devices are removed

Clicking Disable on a device

The iPhone, with the associated UDID, will not be able to upgrade or reinstall the app.

Contact TeleMessage support.

Profiles are removed

Clicking Remove on a Profile.

TeleMessage will not be able to add any more UDIDs to the existing app or build future versions.

Contact TeleMessage support.

APNs keys are revoked

Clicking Revoke on a APN key.

Installations, upgrades, and app Wake Up will stop working.

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App Store Connect API keys are revoked

Selecting the App Store Connect key and clicking Revoke.

TeleMessage will not be able to add any more UDIDs to the existing app or build future versions.

Redo the steps to
Retrieve the
application key.