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What is "Keys" in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section of Apple Dev center

Today I noticed a new section named "Keys." I don't know which services uses this? Anybody have any idea? Or I'm the beta user to see this?

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Hussain Mansoor Avatar asked Jun 21 '17 06:06

Hussain Mansoor


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I noticed it also quite recently and used it right away for push notification configuration of a 3rd party service. In my case I created a key and then added it to the Visual Studio Mobile Center push notification configuration site along with the BundleID and the TeamID. Additional to this you still have to configure Push Notification on your App Identifier in the corresponding section. It looks like the keys here are a new and more convenient way for passing push authentication info like the PEM files before. But can't actually find and official docs on this topic by Apple :( by now.

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Manu Rink Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 04:09

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