Xcode Provisioning Profiles Location

Question

Where are the Provisioning Profiles located in Xcode 8.3.3 within the project and/or file directory?

Solution 1

Where they have been for older versions of Xcode: ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles

Provisioning profiles are not stored with the project. Xcode has a common area and the profile is pulled when you build and bundled with the ipa.

Solution 2

1. Go to the Finder
   
2. From the “Go” menu navigate down to “Go to Folder”
   or
   
3. Hit Command+Shift+G from the Mac OS X desktop or a Finder window
   
4. Search below Path
   

~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles

Comments

[mfaani]

so ipa = project + provisioning profile or there are other things added to it?

[wottle]

The .ipa is essentially a .zip file with the compiled application with an embedded provisioning profile.

[ScottyBlades]

Given its not stored with the project, how do push notifications work without the profile on another developer's machine?

[wottle]

The push notification certificate is needed on the server that sends the push notifications to Apple's APNS server. If you wanted multiple servers to be able to do so, you're have to copy the private key and cert to each server. This question is about the provisioning profile for running the app. If manually manage your code signing, you'd need to export the private key for the cert associated with the provisioning profile and import it onto the other developer's machine.

[Ben Butzer]

Still there for XCode 11.5 in 2020.

[martinseal1987]

took me a while to find the go to folder option had to 2 finger click the finder icon

[Reza Dehnavi]

Are you sure this is the correct answer according to the question?!

[mfaani]

Chera javabesh nist? I mean it's asking where is it stored, and I'm giving an answer for a very specific case only. That is when you build into a real device, then the provisioning profile can also be found on the device...

[Reza Dehnavi]

Na baba :)), Of course, there are various ways in order to achieve mobileprovision for instance you can find it in an ipa file but it seems the question point to the local path.