[epaulson]

I'd even be willing to pay the $99 a year, I just want the signature to last longer than a week, ideally forever. For years when I don't feel like updating the app, I won't pay the developer membership fee.

[kmeisthax]

Uh, don't the $99/year certs give you signatures that last like a year?

[jamesfinlayson]

I think the deploy straight from Xcode to your device builds have a pretty short lifetime (I remember it being a month in around 2014 or 2015) not sure now. If you archive and build using a certificate from developer.apple.com they last a year.

[fingerlocks]

As someone with dozens of side loaded iOS apps, all of my apps are working just fine, well over 6 months later. I always build and deploy without archiving.

[jamesfinlayson]

Yeah okay - maybe things have changed then but I remember building an app for my boss in 2014 and it telling me it would last 30 days.

[monocularvision]

If you pay the $99, the cert don’t expire for a year. It is only the free account that has the 7-day limitation.

[epaulson]

Oh, awesome. I'm glad to discover I was wrong about that!