Developers: Ad-Hoc Slots Non-Renewable
Apple’s Ad-Hoc iPhone distribution program allows developers to register up to 100 iPhone or iPod Touch UDIDs so they can run beta builds or applications without having the purchase them on the App Store. This feature is great for extensive beta testing against applications before it’s submitted to Apple.
A tweet from Dragthing’s James Thompson popped up yesterday explaining an ongoing issue with the developer system, which could eventually put a halt to the amount of UDIDs added to one’s account.
Reading between the lines, and discussions on the forums, it sounds like every time I deleted or modified an entry, I was getting one closer to the magic figure of 100 device IDs you have entered since the beginning of time. When you hit the limit, regardless of how many total device IDs you have listed in the portal, your ability to further edit the list is removed
In a nutshell, the amount of slots available (100) are non-renewable once you delete one of the beta testing slots or change it otherwise. A temporary workaround this issue, is rather than deleting the current devices, edit them with the new information. This will result in the new properties working correctly without losing a slot.
Check out his full post for more insight on this issue. This could pose major problems as people begin upgrading to new iPhones this summer and require new UDID in the developer accounts. Hopefully Apple is coming up with a fix for this before WWDC.
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