I am a complete novice and I find that I cannot restore or delete the “Apple Development” certificate (I only use it for signing). From what I understand, you need to be in a program to manage certificates, but I have no intention of distributing any applications and, from my point of view, it makes no sense to pay.
Am I wrong or am I doing something wrong?
Notes:
- This happened after I installed Tahoe on a new installation.
- I was able to restore it using a copy of the keychains folder I had from Sequoia.
- Xcode (Apple Accounts - Manage Certificates) now shows me two certificates, indicating that one is not in the keychain and cannot be deleted.
you can't manage certificates without being a paying member.
Correct.
Usually this isn’t a problem because Xcode’s automatic code signing takes care of everything for you. But it certainly does make it harder to investigate weird issues.
Are you actually having problems running your app? Or are you solely concerned with the presence of this extra certificate that you can’t delete?
If it’s the latter, I think that this’ll fix itself. Eventually this certificate will expire and thence disappear from the list.
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