We have several apps published to the App Store since the last 5 years and up until now I have been able to sign them with the correct developer and distribution certificate.
Today when I checked the iOS member center, I saw that almost all of my provisioning profiles status are set to Expired. Usually when this happen I just tap on Edit and then tap on Done and they change to active. However, when I tap on Edit now, it shows a message that reads:
No certificates are available. You need a certificate to configure a provisioning profile.
When I navigate to Certificates > Production I see a message that asks me to create a new certificate.
This is the first time I am encountering such an issue and clueless if I would have to create a new certificate as mentioned and if doing so will cause any issues to our users.
Please help!
Development and distribution certificates expire after 12 months. You need to create a new certificate and edit the provisioning profiles to use the new certs.
Creating new certificates will not affect current users.
Not sure why you haven't run into this in 5 years though. Is it possible somebody was creating the updated certs? Or perhaps you were using Xcode to automatically generate them?