I setup an App that I have been testing on my macOS and iOS in Xcode. Then I realized I have 6 more apps I need to start working on. I have plans to become a developer in the Apple program but I want to get further in my coding to move forward.
Apparently the UI Tests in my 6 Apps and those Apps took 10App ID limits from my account.
I have App I have App UI Test and then and again up to a total of 5 of those 6 apps. My main app is now locked out of development? I wasn't planning on working on the other apps until I got my big first app developed.
What can I do?! I am stuck. I can't work on my main app, nor can I work on the other apps. I'm not ready to at all.
We’re talking about Xcode’s Personal Team feature here. The limits of that feature are documented on Developer > Support > Choosing a Membership.
You don’t have to wait for your App IDs to reset though. If you want to create a new project:
- Pick one of your existing test apps that you no longer care about.
- Delete it from your device.
- Create a new project using the same bundle ID.
It will reuse the previous project’s App ID.
This isn’t appropriate for ‘real’ apps, because the bundle ID uniquely identifies the app within both iOS and App Store Connect. But it’s fine for test apps. For example, the vast majority of my iOS test apps use the bundled ID com.example.apple-samplecode.xxsi, where xx is a placeholder, s stands for Swift (it’s o for Objective-C), and i stands for iOS (or m for Mac) [1].
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[1] I create a lot of test projects, so minimising the number of decisions I have to make, and keys I have to type, is surprisingly important.
