# Problems publishing to Apple App Store
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [October 4, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479 "2021-10-04T19:49:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@gratitudue.duqee1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gratitudue.duqee1)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/1 "2021-10-04T19:49:22Z")
Hi,
We’re having problems creating the certificates needed to publish our app to the app store. The screenshot shows where we get stuck. Any suggestions appreciated.
rich
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/2 "2021-10-04T23:08:41Z")
Hi @gratitudue.duqee1 ,
Did you create a developer certificate rather than a distribution certificate by any chance? (I do this regularly myself - very easy to get the two mixed up!)
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### Author:  [@gratitudue.duqee1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gratitudue.duqee1)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/3 "2021-10-06T00:11:52Z")
Hi @domhnallohanlon,
Thanks for your reply. I’ve attached a screenshot (red rectangle added by me) with the options I am given for creating a certificate. The one I have been choosing (which hasn’t been working) is “iOS App Development”. Is there another certificate I should be choosing, instead?
rich
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/4 "2021-10-06T02:00:28Z")
It needs to be a **distribution** certificate, not a development one.
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### Author:  [@gratitudue.duqee1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gratitudue.duqee1)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/5 "2021-10-06T21:16:13Z")
Thanks, @tatiang! It seems like our problem is that we are being presented with entirely different options. How do we get to the window that you took a screenshot of? I go to this URL:
[https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/add](https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/add)
and what I see is attached.
rich
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/6 "2021-10-06T21:51:03Z")
How strange! If I go to that same URL, I see this:
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/7 "2021-10-06T21:55:21Z")
[According to Apple](https://developer.apple.com/support/certificates/), “Distribution certificates can be requested only by Account Holders and Admins.”
If I go to the Membership section, it shows this. How does yours compare?
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/8 "2021-10-06T23:40:29Z")
@gratitudue.duqee1 are you using an Enterprise Licence by any chance?
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### Author:  [@gratitudue.duqee1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gratitudue.duqee1)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/9 "2021-10-07T01:02:57Z")
We have the iOS Developer University Program. Does this change things?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/10 "2021-10-07T03:53:45Z")
> [@gratitudue.duqee1](#):
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> We have the iOS Developer University Program. Does this change things?
The very last sentence of [this document](https://developer.apple.com/support/university/) seems to indicate that you would have to pay for an Apple Developer account to be able to distribute apps on the App Store.
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### Author:  [@dariancash72](https://community.thunkable.com/u/dariancash72)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/11 "2023-02-01T01:11:58Z")
Hello Tatiang, you are the best person to ask a question that I desperately need an answer to. Do I have to have an Apple computer to publish an App created with Thunkable to the App Store? My App was created on Dell computer. Please advise
Thanks, Darian
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/12 "2023-02-01T01:50:19Z")
Please don’t double-post. You already created a topic about this:
> [@Can I publish an App created with Thunkable on Dell computer to the App Store](https://community.thunkable.com/t/can-i-publish-an-app-created-with-thunkable-on-dell-computer-to-the-app-store/2251539):
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> Folks, I created an App with Thunkable on Dell Laptop to publish it to the App Store. Do I have to have an Apple computer or it doesn’t really matter? Thanks a million
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problems-publishing-to-apple-app-store/1543479/13 "2023-02-01T01:50:22Z")