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I'm looking for some clarification on developing for a single iPad. I have an app in the app store, however I want to make my own app for personal use that won't be submitted to the app store.

Is it possible for me to develop the app and get a certificate to "test" the app on my iPad, and just keep it on? I don't want to have to pay $299 for an enterprise account to publish private apps for a single iPad to use the app!

I've had a read about and I'm probably more confused now than I was before!

Any help appreciated.

Thanks, Gary

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    If you don't mind renewing the certificate every now and then, you can do this with an ad-hoc distribution certificate. – pmdj Nov 07 '12 at 14:40
  • Ad-Hoc distribution only expires once a year. Thats not too difficult. – Ryan Poolos Nov 07 '12 at 14:42
  • Even the enterprise account expires once a year. Just use the Ad-Hoc you already have on your current account – Dancreek Nov 07 '12 at 14:47

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If you enter the iOS Developer Program (99$ a year), you will be able to do what you mention: you will be able to generate a certificate and a provisioning profile and install the app on your device (actually, up to 100 devices).

The only thing is that you will need to create a new certificate/provisioning profile and rebuild/reinstall your app when the certificate expries.

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No matter how you do it, you will always have to sign your app to be able to run it on a device.

All Provisioning Profiles expire, except the ones for the App Store (which you can't use without publishing your App in the App Store). So paying $299 for an Enterprise Account wouldn't even help you in this case.

However, if you want to run the App only on this single device, you could consider jailbreaking it. This would allow unsigned apps to run.

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