I have an app in the app store and the distribution profile is about to run out in about a week, but my developer membership doesn't actually expire till next year. Do I need to rebuild and re-submit my app with a new certificate?
IOS – What to do if a distribution certificate is expiring for an app store app
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Apple has changed the rules a number of times, but a fairly recent (October 2014) blog post suggests that these app name reservations no longer automatically expire. The author says he received the following e-mail from Apple:
This was posted as an answer to a similar question on Stack Overflow. The accepted answer to that question still states there is a time limit of 180 days, but the answer was last edited in March 2014, and the quote it gives no longer seems to appear on the page it links to.
I had this exact problem just today (Aug 13 2015)
Go into the member center, find the certificate, and revoke it. Leave the member center.
xcode 6+ will automatically find the certicate has been revoked and will create & download a new one when you carry out an action that requires it.
I sometimes find it also helps to delete your account from Xcode->Preferences->accounts and add it back in.
Indeed it scared me the first time I tried it.
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Best Answer
You can renew the certificate by selecting the certificate and clicking Renew. This means you won't have to resubmit the app just to update the certificate.