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Dec 04, 2017 Visual Studio for Mac now offers automatic signing of iOS apps, boosting developer productivity by reducing the number of manual steps required to prepare iOS apps for distribution. Additionally, a lot of the improvements in this update center on reliability. Hi Marcos, I had a similar issue like yours. When logged in my Xamarin account via VS2015 I was shown Visual Studio Enterprise licence but on Mac Starter and asked to by VS Subscription.
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