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How to test production push notifications?

Until now I used development push certificate and the push notifications worked great.

Now I want to submit my app to Apple so I created a production certificate and set it under "code signing identity" -> "Release"

I also placed the .p12 file in my production server.
But the push now does not work.

Is it suppose to work when I run from xcode? or will it just work when downloading the app from App Store? If so how can I test it?

Solution

  • The production push will work when you download the app from the App Store.

    UPDATE:
    You can also test the production push with an AdHoc build of the app; see Trinca's answer.

    UPDATE:
    Now, the easiest solution is to use Apple's TestFlight. (In TestFlight, it is easy to add new remote users, sending them an email invitation, they then download on whatever device they choose.)