I've been added to an apple developer team for developing an app. My apple ID is added to a specific app in the app store connect console with the following roles:
developer
marketing
customer support
I am the only developer for the app, so I need permission to upload builds. When opening xcode, I can't change the Team in Signing & Capabilities to the team I've been added to. I only see my own team.
Do I need extra permissions, and how to fix this?
Edit: both apple developer accounts are individual accounts, not company accounts. Could this be the problem?
You can't upload the app as developer in individual account.You can do that only on enterprise account.
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I have invited my developer in iTunes Connect to my account with the roles developer, marketing and app manager. I have an existing Apple Developer account as an individual. My developer is now complaining that he cannot publish the new app as he need some access to the Apple Developer account.
Am I missing something. Because I couldn't find any option to add him in my Apple Developer Account, only in iTunes Connect where he has access.
For an app to submit on AppStore, we need a couple of things like:
Apple Distribution Certificate
Register a bundle identifier
Distribution Provisioning Profile for your app.
All the mentioned things can be completed on https://developer.apple.com
As you have an individual account, so you can do 3 things...
Create the mentioned things and send them to your developer
Give your developer access to your developer creds and your developer can do it for you.
Convert your individual account to the Company account if possible and give your developer proper rights to do the required things.
Please comment if you have any questions.
Hope it helps!
Your developer would need an iOS development certificate to build the app under your account, and your iOS distribution certificate to distribute it (e.g., upload to your iTunesConnect, now AppstoreConnect, account). This is before any question of access permissions for AppstoreConnect.
So you would need either:
company developer.apple.com account where you can assign your developer the developer role
share your Apple ID credentials with your developer, which I guess you don't want to do
I have admin role of an account and able to view the team in app store connect website but with the same account not able to view the same on developer.apple.com. Did't get what is going wrong here.
Update : Adding a user from developer.apple.com, redirect to the appstore connect. It means now there is no difference between developer.apple.com user and app store connect users.
Appstore connect team is different and Developer.apple.com access is different
you have admin role on Appstore Connect but not on developer.apple.com
ask owner of the account to give you access on developer.apple.com
hope it solve your issue
happy coding =)
Your client need to add you in Apple Developer
iTunes Connect only and only allows you to submit your apps to the App Store while Apple Developer allows you to create your certificates and provisioning profiles, sign your apps, and distribute development and ad-hoc builds.
Finally got reply from Apple support.
In my case, I have admin access but the team was being shown only in developer and not in appstore connect.
My solution was to select the team in Developer Account and from there you see a button to go to AppStore Connect.
After clicking the button teams were in sync.
I'm very confused by how Apple handles this. Here is my situation:
Im a solo IOS developer with a paid Apple Developer account. I can access iTunes connect and upload apps there, this works fine. I pick "manage signing automatically" in XCode using "IOS Developer" Code Signing identity.
So this works.
An organization Im working for invited me in iTunes connect. So I can create apps for them on them too. Now I have two things on my account there.
How can I upload an app for their account? I cant seem to transfer an existing app and I cant seem to sign it with an identity which matches their profile/account/whatever.
The process appears confusing but actually it isn't. Lets walk through it:
First you create an AppleID. You then use that AppleID to register for a Developer program. Registering to a developer program gives access to two types of accounts. Or rather say that you are provided with the access to two different portals for the same account. One is developer portal and other is iTunes Connect. For background work like registering an AppID, testing devices and managing certificates and profiles you use Developer Portal. For frontend work like creating an app to be published to the AppStore, uploading your build, distributing it for testing you use iTunes Connect portal.
Now if you are being invited by some other organisation in its developer program with the same AppleID, you have two accounts linked to the same AppleID. Now when you login to the developer portal you are logged in to the one account automatically and you can change to the other by selected from a dropdown at the top right. Once you have selected the organisation you then continue working same when you worked previously with a single account.
Here is the screenshot of my developer dashboard with multiple accounts:
Hope this clarifies.
The team agent can initiate the app transfer.
Steps:
My Apps
Select your app
Scroll to the Additional Information section
and click Transfer App, then click Done.
See more details on app transfer here
To sign an app you need provisioning profile and signing entity (.p12 file)
Or Apple Developer Account access from where you can generate certs and provisioning profile and download
After getting signing identity and provisioning profile from Apple Developer Account perform following steps
Archive App
Open Organiser (Xcode >> Window >> Organiser)
Select app and version you want to upload
Click Upload to App Store and follow instructions
I'm using iOS developer account which is not enrolled(not paid) in program. However, I was invited in Itunes Connect to be developer of company account, so my role in Itunes Connect is developer.
Now I need to upload application build into TestFlight on Itunes Connect, but I can't archive it because of missing provisioning profile in xCode for this application. As my account not enrolled I don't have option to generate distribution and development provisioning profiles in developer page. So I requested company manager to provide me: distribution and development profiles. Receiving them I found that they are with .cer extension and XCode don't recognize them. May be thats because there are only valid for Apple ID owner of the creator.
I read all Apple documentation on this topic, but this issue is not covered or I didn't found it.
How can I get provisioning profiles in this situation?
And then upload build into Itunes Connect for app that I'm only developer. Do I need to enroll my developer account? Or company have to invite my in other place?
The .cer only contains the certificate used to sign the binary as the company. It should open in the Keychain Access app, not Xcode. You need to ask the representative to also send you the .p12 file, which would contain the private key for the certificate. Without that private key, you can't build an app as the organization you are working with.
Once you have those, you should be able to log into the Apple developer site and download the provisioning profiles for iOS Development and iOS Distribution. Those should open in Xcode. Once you have all 3 things (the private key, cert, and provisioning profile), you should be able to build the app.
There are four roles you can grant to the users for them to access all the data about specific apps:
1. App Manager: The App Managers can edit all aspects of the apps they
have access to, and can add users to those apps. These users can be
granted limited app access.
2. Developer: The Developer user has access to My Apps and Resources
and Help. They can upload binaries to iTunes Connect and manage
internal TestFlight users. These users can be granted limited app
access.
3. Marketer: The Marketer role is for users who manage marketing
materials and promotional artwork. Users with the Marketing role
will be contacted by the App Store team if an app is chosen to be
featured on the App Store. They can update app metadata and request
promo codes from My Apps. These users can be granted limited app
access.
4. Sales: The Sales role has access to Sales and Trends, and iTunes
Connect for iOS. They can only download the full sales reports if
they also have the Reports role. Sales users can be granted limited
app access.
All of these roles support limited app access, which is the ability to restrict accounts to only view certain apps. Granting Admin or Finance automatically provides the ability to see every app associated with the developer program membership.
I have
An apple id
The source code
A Distribution Certificate generated for my apple id using client's developer portal
A Provisioning profile for the newly created App ID and my distribution certificate
My client dont want to share his apple id credentials with me. I am able to archive the product in Xcode, but am not able to submit it to App Store.
Can i directly submit it to the store with the above details i've got?
Or Can i build IPA file and share it with client, so he can submit to App Store?
Is there any other alternative ways we can submit the app to store (other than sharing his credentials)
Kindly explain the answer (with step by step guide if possible).
Thanks
For those who needs to do the same on behalf of clients, here are the steps i've followed...
What i had
An apple developer account (with no Developer Program Enrollment)
What client had
An apple developer account (with Apple Developer Program Enrollment for Company)
As far as app distribution is concerned, apple have 2 systems: Member Center (for Certificates, Profiles, App IDs etc) and ITunes Connect (for publishing your app to app store and further management of the app).
I need access to both ITunes Connect & Member center for distributing on behalf of client.
In Member Center, client should give you Team Admin Role. [steps]
In ITunes connect, client should give you Developer Role / Admin Role for the app. If Developer Role, given u can only upload the build, to submit app for review you'll need to ask the client. If Admin role, basically you can do almost everything upto Submitting the app for review. [steps]
Now you can create certificates, profiles, app ids through Member Center (you can create certificates & profiles in Xcode also. But App IDS should be created through Member Center).
Create App Record in ITunes Connect using the same bundle ID used for App ID creation.
Upload your build through Xcode
Submit for review through Itunes Connect
This is what i did for submitting the app. If you find any mistakes/better alternatives, pls comment below, so i'll update the answer.
You'll need to do the following:
Build the app using the distribution cert of the client
Archive the app using XCode (it's in the same menu as the build
options)
When the archive is done it will open the Archive
Organizer
Select the newly created archive and export it. The
first option in exporting is the 'Save for iOS App Store
Deployment'.
This will create a directory on your mac that contains the bits
and pieces your client will need to upload it.
Zip that directory and transfer to your client. They should be able
to use the web-interface in iTunes connect to upload the app and
complete the app submission process.
... Or Can i build IPA file and share it with client, so he can submit to App Store?
To answer your question, you can build the app and provide to your client for them to submit the app.
For building the app (.ipa) you need to get the Provisioning profile & Certificate (.p12) corresponds to Apple developer program from the client.
I have done this for many of our clients and solution is working. In fact few of the clients they have an internal portal with the predefined process.
In case, if anyone of you have queries on this response comment below and I shall try to answer.
Note: when signing remember to choose use local signing assets in order to avoid giving apple id credentials.
The easiest way would be to have your client add you under User and Roles in iTunes Connect. There is a developer role now that can limit access to a certain app and restricts it to the below:
As of Summer of 2017, Which is after this was initially asked) The developer and the app producer name must be the same. Thus just have them spend the
$99 a year and get a Dev account that they add you to to Develop / manage.
Here is a short and detailed explanation: [1]: http://www.goodbarber.com/blog/your-client-s-developer-accounts-vs-your-own-a856/
Here is how to tranfer if already in app Store under your account:[1]: https://support.appmachine.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000012284-Transfer-your-app-to-another-iOS-Developer-Account
You need to use IP distribution with iOS to build IPA to upload to the App Store
According to the description the simplest way would be to submit the app on your own behalf and as soon as you pass the certification to transfer the published app to your client from iTunes Connect dashboard.