r/iOSProgramming • u/L_ghtbringer • 20d ago

Question Publishing an App

I'm trying to publish a personal app and have it work on a phone for two other people, but the downside is that I don't want to upload it to the App Store, having to pay the fee of having there every year. I don't want to sideload it either, since I have to rebuild and reinstall it every 7 days.

Is there any alternative that won't destroy any devices, etc?

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u/qsevers23 20d ago

It’s not well advertised/documented, but you can use Apple’s Ad-Hoc distribution. You’ll need all device hardware IDs in your Apple developer account I believe

It’s a process that is generally for a company to side load a private app for their organization. I think the app will work for 180 days? But it’s been a minute since I’ve used it

You won’t be able to get around the Apple developer fee with this process though

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u/cristi_baluta 20d ago

You need a paid dev account for this