Follow the instructions below to generate an Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) certificate:
- Click on the Launchpad on your Mac.
- Search for Keychain Access and open it.
- On the Keychain Access menu, navigate to Certificate Assistant and click Request a Certificate from a Certificate Authority….
- Enter your email address and the common name. The common name will reflect the name of the certificate.
- Select the Save to disk option.
- Click Continue to save the private key.
- Click Keys in the Keychain window, which appears under the Category section.
- Right click on the newly created key and click on Export.
- Enter a name for the certificate and select the destination it needs to be saved to.
- Select
.p12as the file format. - Click Save and provide a password of your choice.
- Rename the private key file extension from
P12toPFX.