Iphone – Rebuild iphone app when updating ad hoc mobile provisioning file

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My iphone app is currently in Beta and I am distributing it to beta testers via ad hoc distribution. If I want to add new users to the beta can I just add their devices and download/distribute a new provisioning profile file, or do I need to rebuild the app with that new app and redistribute both the app and the provisioning profile file?

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I've been dealing with this issue and found out this post to be extremelly helpful. Specially this part:

So my new approach – which has worked well so far – is to create a new Ad Hoc mobile provision file for each beta release. For example, when I release v1.1 beta 1 to my beta testers, I create a new Ad Hoc mobile provision file called “NRE_1_1_0_beta1.mobileprovision”, and assign every single beta testing device I know of (at that time) to that mobile provision file. I then build one Ad Hoc copy of the app, signed with this mobile provision file, and send the app and the file to all users. This requires each user has to install a new mobile provision file each time they receive a new beta, but this makes it much easier to see which provisioning files they have installed on their device.

And, yes, you need to re-build your App once you get a new mobile provision.

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