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How to Find the Serial Number of an APN Certificate

Updated: March 28, 2022 15:13

In the event that an admin needs to find the serial number of an expired Apple Push Certificate, it can be located via the following steps:

Navigate to https://identity.apple.com/pushcert/ and download the expired certification's .pem (by selecting Download).
Do a Spotlight search on the device for "Keychain Access".
Select login at the top, and then drag and drop the .pem that was downloaded in Step 1 into the list:
Right-click the .pem file in the list and select Get Info:
The certificate's Serial Number will be shown in the provided certificate information:

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