Use case
Code signing for React Native apps on iOS
A React Native iOS app — bare workflow, Expo with prebuild, or built through EAS — is signed with the same Apple Developer certificates and provisioning profiles as any other iOS app. HexSign sits on top of the App Store Connect API and gives you a single dashboard for every bundle ID, certificate, and profile across every Apple Developer team you connect, so the iOS side of a React Native release stays predictable no matter which CI you run on.
TL;DR
- React Native iOS apps use the same Apple Developer assets as any native app — HexSign manages all of them.
- Works with bare React Native, Expo prebuild, and the iOS build that EAS Build performs through the App Store Connect API.
- The relationship graph keeps bundle IDs straight when you ship multiple white-label apps from one React Native codebase.
- Expiration alerts fire before xcodebuild, EAS, Bitrise, Codemagic, or GitHub Actions fails on signing.
Where teams hit friction
Common pain points signing React Native apps
What HexSign adds
What HexSign adds for React Native teams
Live relationship graph
An interactive graph linking certificates, provisioning profiles, bundle IDs, and devices. Click any node to see its dependencies and the blast radius of revoking or rotating it.
Expiration alerts before things break
Email and Slack webhook alerts at thresholds you choose (7, 14, 30, 60, 90 days). Send a test alert before enabling delivery, so there are no surprise expirations during a release.
Health score & expiring items
A 0–100% health score across every Apple account you connect, plus an expiring-items panel that surfaces what to act on first. No CLI invocation required.
Guided provisioning profile wizard
A step-by-step wizard picks the right profile type, identifier, signing certificate, and devices, then generates the profile through Apple's API. No portal tab-switching.
Multi-account dashboard
Connect one or many Apple Developer team accounts. Each syncs independently with its own status and error reporting, all visible from a single dashboard.
Audit logs, RBAC & MFA
Owner / Admin / Member roles, per-user auth activity log, and MFA via SMS or TOTP authenticator apps. Every certificate, profile, device, and identifier change is logged.
How it works
How HexSign fits a React Native workflow
- 1
Connect the Apple Developer team for each app
Create an App Store Connect API key (Issuer ID, Key ID, .p8) per team. If you ship apps under multiple Apple accounts (per client, per brand), connect them all — each syncs independently in HexSign.
- 2
See every bundle ID and the assets feeding it
Bare workflow apps and Expo prebuild apps both end up with regular Apple bundle IDs. HexSign renders them as a graph, with each provisioning profile, certificate, and registered device wired in. White-label brands group the same way.
- 3
Regenerate or rotate from the dashboard
When EAS Build fails because a profile is stale, or xcodebuild rejects a renewed certificate, open the relevant identifier in HexSign and use the wizard to regenerate the profile or upload a new CSR. The change is live in Apple immediately.
- 4
Alerts before the release branch goes red
Email plus Slack webhook alerts at thresholds you choose. Wire them per Apple Developer team so the right channel gets pinged for each client or brand.
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Plays nicely with EAS, Fastlane, and any CI
HexSign does not build your app. It manages the Apple-side assets EAS Build, Fastlane Match, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Codemagic, and xcodebuild all read at build time. Same App Store Connect API key works for HexSign and your build pipeline.
Side-by-side
Signing React Native apps with HexSign vs without
With HexSign | Without HexSign | |
|---|---|---|
| Bare workflow / Expo / EAS | ||
| Visibility for bare-workflow ios/ project | Manual via Xcode | |
| Visibility for Expo prebuild output | Re-run prebuild to inspect | |
| Pairs with EAS Build credentials | Same Apple-side state | EAS UI per project |
| Multi-app / white-label | ||
| See bundle IDs across many brands | Graph + multi-account dashboard | Sign in / out per Apple ID |
| Track which app a tester device joins | Per-device view | Apple portal, one app at a time |
| Rotate cert across every white-label app | Bulk operations | Manual per app |
| Expiration & alerts | ||
| Cert expiring in N days | Email + Slack at custom thresholds | Apple 30-day notice |
| Profile expiring per app / environment | Per-profile alert | Build-time discovery |
| Test that alerts actually land | ||
| Team & security | ||
| Role-based access control | Owner / Admin / Member | Apple roles + per-CI roles |
| MFA on the signing dashboard | TOTP / SMS | Per-tool |
| Audit log of every change | ||
FAQ
Questions about HexSign for React Native
Other use cases
HexSign for other frameworks
Comparing HexSign to a specific tool? See HexSign vs Fastlane Match, HexSign vs Apple Developer Portal, HexSign vs Codemagic, and HexSign vs Bitrise.
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