Is anyone else seeing this? Apple's documentation says "Your distribution certificate is valid for three years from when it was issued" (https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/distribute-proprietary-in-house-apps-depce7cefc4d/web).
On 2026-10-13 our automation created a new iOS Distribution certificate on our Apple Developer Enterprise Program account through the App Store Connect API (POST /v1/certificates, type IOS_DISTRIBUTION, with a CSR). The certificate expires 2027-11-12, which is about 395 days. Our previous enterprise iOS Distribution certificate, created in April 2025, got the full 3 years (expires 2028-04-28).
To rule out our automation, I created another iOS Distribution certificate manually in the Developer portal on 2026-10-16. It also had a validity of about 396 days. We have revoked both so they can't be used.
Questions:
- Has the validity period for Enterprise Program iOS Distribution certificates changed? If so, where is it documented?
- Is anyone else seeing ~395-day certificates on Enterprise accounts, from the portal or the API?
- Is there a supported way to request a specific validity period?
I have also opened a case with Apple Developer Support (case ID 102999420277).
