Get in on a Mac App Store beta but not sure how to install the beta app? There are several apps that have iPhone and/or iPad versions as well as Mac versions these days, and if youre beta testing the iOS version, you might need to set up the Mac App Store version as well. No worries, as long as you gave them the proper hardware UUID for your Mac, getting the app set up easy to do. In fact, its just as easy, and very similar to, the process for installing iOS beta software on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
Install the provisioning profile
Download the file to your Mac.
If the file came zipped, unzip it. (Yeah, obvious, but we try to be complete.)
Double click the .provisionprofile file
System Preferences will launch; click on Install
When prompted, enter your admin password
The provisioning file should then show up in your profiles
Install the binary
If you have an older version of the app already on your Mac, play it safe and trash it
Drag the beta app to your Application folder
Thats it. If you have any trouble its a beta app, after all check with the developer. You made need to trash some other, previously installed files, or do some other configuration first. When you do have it working, enjoy.
The Mac App Store isnt the only way to distribute software on OS X, so many developers may never need to send UUID-locked beta builds. But if the Mac App Store is the only way the developer intends to distribute their software, this may well be the beta road they take.
Install the provisioning profile
Download the file to your Mac.
If the file came zipped, unzip it. (Yeah, obvious, but we try to be complete.)
Double click the .provisionprofile file
System Preferences will launch; click on Install
When prompted, enter your admin password
The provisioning file should then show up in your profiles
Install the binary
If you have an older version of the app already on your Mac, play it safe and trash it
Drag the beta app to your Application folder
Thats it. If you have any trouble its a beta app, after all check with the developer. You made need to trash some other, previously installed files, or do some other configuration first. When you do have it working, enjoy.
The Mac App Store isnt the only way to distribute software on OS X, so many developers may never need to send UUID-locked beta builds. But if the Mac App Store is the only way the developer intends to distribute their software, this may well be the beta road they take.