Enabling self-signed certificates in iOS 15

This is a real pain because apple has intentionally made it a pain. No other product makes it as difficult as they do.

You have to download the certificate itself, just the raw pem file, either via a browser or some other method. Via a browser is the easiest way. If you're self-signing certs, you should be able to set up a little home webserver and literally put the cert in the root of that and then just hit it via safari on your phone. Once that happens, it will be downloaded into the profiles. Open settings and use the search at the top to look for profiles. Open profiles and "install" the profile for your self-signed cert. Then go to settings->general->about->certificate trust settings (all the way at the bottom) and flip the toggle to trust all roots for that profile.

libhart wrote:

This is a real pain because apple has intentionally made it a pain. No other product makes it as difficult as they do.

Which is why no other products are as secure as Apple’s.

Hi Declanthedog,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. We understand you’re trying to trust a specific certificate. We’re happy to help.

We suggest taking a look at this article: Trust manually installed certificate profiles in iOS and iPadOS

Take care.