Developing for iOS on multiple computers, testing on a single device, advice?

Question

I was looking for some advice on provisioning profiles / certificates etc... I use an iMac at work to develop on, and I also sometimes find myself checking out my code from

Answer 1

If you're using Xcode 6.x - 8.x, there is a very easy way to do this:

See the section titled Exporting and Importing Certificates and Profiles in the app distribution guide.

To sum it up:

1. go to Xcode's preferences
2. click on accounts
3. click on the gear icon at the bottom left
4. select 'export accounts' and enter the desired filename and password
5. open the newly created file on your new machine

Done! this will import the profiles from the previous machine.