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Update the APNs certificate and change the Apple ID

Our APNs certificate is about to expire as it shows on the FireBase console. I need to renew it. I have 2 main issues:

  1. I visited Apple's website:
https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/download/{some code}

where {some code} is some kind of an id, presumably. I do not see a "renew" button just "revoke" and "download" buttons: enter image description here Checked with the original Apple ID that created the certificate as well as another one.

  1. The guy who originally created the certificate is leaving, so I need to have the option to renew it with a different Apple ID in the future.

As I understand, if I revoke the certificate and create a new one, that would stop the push notifications and all devices would have to "enroll again". What does that mean exactly? Would that mean sending a new update? What would have to change on the client/server side?

Solution

  • I simply added a new certificate and updated the one in FireBase and it worked. Didn't have to revoke the previous one. Here is a tutorial.