Here you can store apps which you have developed yourselves, or that have been developed for your company. Import apps here that are not in the iTunes App Store.
Note! This feature is only available for customers with a Pro or Enterprise subscription. Customers without Pro or Enterprise subscription cannot add self-hosted apps.
Install the app initially
- Select in the Administration Portal Administration→ Apps.
- There click on the plus button (left arrow in illus.) and then on iOS (right arrow in illus.).
- Now select IPA File (arrow in illus.).
Then select your self-developed app (maximum 500 MB, .ipa file) by clicking on Select file (arrow in illus.).
Note! You can upload the same app several times and configure it differently (e.g. mandatory/non-mandatory and thus make the differently configured app available to different users/groups/devices, without deleting the administration.
The upload of the app is then started. All the necessary information is read from the app's metadata and automatically added to the administration portal.
- Only rollout on devices with OS versions from ... to ...: Specifying a minimum/maximum OS version is optional. If the versions are entered, the app will only be made available to those devices with an operating system that meets these requirements.
- Make the other settings as described here.
- Then click on OK.
You can see successfully imported apps in the Administration Portal. To learn how to assign these apps to users, you can read in this article.
Update of a self-hosted app
If you have already assigned a self-developed app to your users, you can easily update the app here.
- To do this, select your app in the administration portal under Administration→ Apps (left arrow in illus.).
- Then click on Edit (middle arrow in illus.).
- Now upload the new version of your app (right arrow in illus.).
Note! If you want to downgrade a self-hosted app, you must first remove the new version and then reinstall and distribute the older version of the app. A downgrade via the edit button is not possible.
The new version of the app will be pushed to users' devices during the next synchronization. Further information on business apps can be found in the iOS/iPadOS app user guide.
Under Administration→ Devices, you can see in the Apps tab whether an app update was successful. A separate status is displayed here for each version of the app (with the same package ID).