Choose whether to re-sign your app using Xcode-managed distribution provisioning profiles or ones that you create yourself.
Note: If you manually sign an app in the archive, “Automatically manage signing” is not a distribution signing option when exporting your app.
Option | Description | ||||||||||
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Automatically manage signing | Xcode creates distribution certificates and provisioning profiles for you. | ||||||||||
Manually manage signing | You create your own distribution certificates and provisioning profiles in your developer account, download the provisioning profiles, and assign them to targets in your app. | ||||||||||