WWDR intermediate certificates
To help protect customers and developers, we require that all third-party apps, Apple Wallet passes, Safari Extensions, Safari Push Notifications, and App Store purchase receipts are signed by a trusted certificate authority. The Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certificate Authority issues the certificates you use to sign your software for Apple devices, allowing our systems to confirm that your software is delivered to users as intended and hasn’t been modified.
The Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Intermediate Certificate expired on February 7, 2023, and a renewed version is set to expire on February 20, 2030. During this rotation, we issued additional intermediate certificates to help improve Certificate Revocation List (CRL) performance and segment the purpose of different certificates. The following table helps outline the current active WWDR Intermediate Certificates and their associated leaf certificates.
|
Intermediate version |
Primary usecase |
Associated certificates |
|---|---|---|
G2 |
ECDSA signing for Apple Pay |
Apple Pay Payment Processing |
G3 |
Software signing and services |
Apple Development, Apple Distribution, iOS Development, iOS Distribution, Mac Development, Mac App Distribution, Mac Installer Distribution, Swift Package Collection, Merchant Identity |
G4 |
Features supported by Apple Push Notification service |
Pass Type ID, Pass Type ID with NFC, Apple Push Notification service SSL, Order Type ID, Website Push ID, WatchKit Services, VoIP Services |
G5 |
App Store Signing and Services |
Apple Managed certificates |
G6 |
ECDSA Signing - Software and Services |
Swift signing |
G7 |
App Store Receipt signing |
Apple Managed certificates |
WWDR Intermediate Certificates are available on the Apple PKI website and are automatically installed by eligible Xcode versions if supported by software signing.