So I got my MacBook pro yesterday in hopes of developing some local apps to build on my phone.
And after setting everything up, Visual studio on my mac and XCode, and I already had Visual Studio on my PC things started messing up.
I tried debugging my app on my phone from my PC, with the phone connected to my PC ofcourse, didnt work, so I read around on the internet for a good 4 hours and it said that I should create a blank project in XCode, and for the Signing in preferences I had to choose Team, so I did and it debugged the application on my iphone when my iphone was connected to my Mac,
However I DONT want to code on Mac computers, I want to use my PC.
But everytime I try to debug the application from my PC it keeps saying
Could not find any available provisioning profiles for iOS.
I am running a iPhone 7 with the version 10.1.1 because I dont want to update due to various reasons.
I tried changing the Deployment target to something really low but that didnt fix it.
Why is this happening?
Visual representation of what the error looks like
Not sure if this picture helps, this is the project properties > iOS Bundle Signing
And my device log is empty aswell.. Why?
ANother error message saying it doesnt support
EDIT
I plugged it into the mac and now its visible in the Device log and I can see stuff happening in the device log but I still cant boot the project on my iPhone
Apple doesn't allow developing for iphone on a non IOS device. This simply means that you can't build apps on a Linux or Windows computer/laptop the normal way. You are stuck on building your project on an IOS device.
There are 2 options to fully develop on a Windows laptop though.
One way of doing so is by using your mac as a gateway to send your app from Windows to IOS to your phone. More info about this can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/windows/
The second option is a newer one called Xamarin Live Player. You don't need to use a mac at all for developing, but you still need a mac if you want to publish the app. This option also works differently from normal development as you need to download an extra program on your phone.
https://www.xamarin.com/live
You could try to do manual provisioning. Create a development provisioning profile at the Apple Developer site, and have XCode download it for you. Then it should show on your PC for you to select.
See the Xamarin documentation on manual provisioning for some more details:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/device-provisioning/manual-provisioning?tabs=vsmac#creating-a-development-provisioning-profile
I developed an app with XCode 8. However, I don't really find any help how to run my app on my own phone. There are just some tutorials for running it on my phone with XCode 7 but those don't really work for me.
Does somebody know how to do that ? Thank you !
Go to http://developer.apple.com and log in with your Apple developer account.
Create a developer certificate
Create an app id for your app
Create a provisioning profile
Download the provisioning profile and import it into Xcode.
Connect your iPhone to your computer. Select your iPhone in Xcode.
Build and run your app.
Or let Xcode do all that for you, since it happens automatically if Xcode is connected to your developer account.
This process is all documented on Apple's developer web site.
AFAIK you just need to:
Start Xcode
Unlock your iPhone
Connect your iPhone to your mac using the Lightning USB cable.
You should be asked (by Xcode) if you want to use the connected phone as a development device.
You can check, if the device is know to Xcode by clicking on Window / Devices. If you connect a device for the first time a little bit of 'magic' is going on that takes a while to complete.
Something like this maybe shown add 'Devices':
My phone is listed as an ineligible target in Xcode and out to the side it says (no paired Apple Watch).
My Apple Watch is registered under iOS Devices. I can see the UDID. The watch has watchOS 2.0 installed and my iPhone 6 has iOS 9 installed. The iPhone pairs just fine with the watch and I can install apps.
I've tried rebooting both the watch and the phone. I've tried rebooting Xcode. I tried creating a new scheme in Xcode but it still shows (no paired Apple Watch). I can choose Product/Destination and the app will show up on the phone, it just won't install the watch app...just sits there saying "Installing...".
I had paired my watch with a new phone and run in to this problem. I removed all files in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/watchOS DeviceSupport/ and it solved it!
2022, 5 year anniversary: For the past 6 months, I consistently have to sit through one hour of "Preparing Apple Watch for development via iPhone" even when I'm not even debugging a Watch app. Needless to say, this also makes it impossible to run apps on device via Xcode. After about 3 hours (basically half my workday) it starts to work. Once I remove the app for testing, or unplug the iPhone, I have to wait a few hours again. Never in my life have I felt so useless as my job at this point basically consists of watching a loading indicator for hours until the process is done - only for the whole thing still not working most of the time.
Fun fact: Apple on Twitter claims they use the same devices and tools for their Watch apps.
2021: All Quiet on the Western Front. It's been 4 years since my first response. I've now had a good run during December and the first 2 weeks of January. It was so good that I haven't closed the simulator a single time and kept my iPhone connected and never turned off my mac. This worked for 3 weeks but then my iPhone ended up in a boot loop and restoring fails. I bought a new iPhone and now I also can't really connect anymore. See y'all in 2022 :)
2020: At this point I can't even get WCSession to send data on the Simulators anymore. Message from Watch to iPhone with replyHandler works, message from iPhone to Watch fails with WCErrorCodeWatchAppNotInstalled. Every day starts with rebooting numerous times and deleting and setting up new iPhone + Watch combinations. Tried on a freshly installed macOS with my friend's devices and of course no luck. But it's clearly my fault. Submitting a bug report doesn't do anything as they only keep telling you that everything is working on their end and they will close this ticket now. I only wanted to help.
2019: New iPhone, even worse. Now, every single component in my development has changed since 2017 and I'm still stuck targeting the simulator with every build. Apple, why?
2018 II: nothing works for me anymore. Contacted Apple loads of times and Apple Watch seems to have moved to Playground's neighborhood as it's just loading/running but never really running. Bought a second Mac, new project, nothing works. Sad.
2018: The last couple of days I have been really successful doing the following:
On your iPhone:
turn off wifi
turn off bluetooth
turn on wifi
turn on bluetooth
On your Watch:
turn on flight mode
deactivate flight mode
Most of the times it didn't take longer than 30 seconds to get the connection back on track. I think it's the "Watch flight mode"-thing but I never change a (somewhat) running system so this will be my procedure from now on. My 2017-reply still seems to be of help to some people:
2017: If it SOMETIMES shows, and often doesn't, it might be due to the fact that you closed iTunes
I noticed what I often did after reconnecting: closing iTunes. Immediately, the watch turned to be "unpaired". Reconnecting the USB cable but leaving iTunes open has helped me since.
What worked for me is to go to the WatchKit App target and update the Team with the proper account. Once I did that, my device showed as eligible.
Open the camera companion app on the watch. For me this works. Seems like the app starts a phone connection.
It seems that you need to tap on the "Trust this computer" message on Apple Watch. This solved my problem. Also check if XCode displays the message "Indexing..." or "Loading symbols...": you need to wait until the operation is over.
It looks like a bug in Xcode!
Go to ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/watchOS DeviceSupport/ and create a folder named "Watch1,2 2.0 (build number)" and for 'build number' use your watchOS build number. Inside this folder create another folder named "Symbols".
So for the latest build: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/watchOS DeviceSupport/Watch1,2 2.0 (13S5305d)/Symbols.
Maybe clean & restart Xcode.
For me it was an issue of trusting the computer from the watch. I had to reboot my watch to get the "trust this computer" request.
In my case I believe it was because I had Connect via network enabled for the iPhone that's paired with my new watch.
Upon disabling the wireless connect feature, then connecting the iPhone to my mac via cable, the watch appeared in the Devices list.
After getting the UUID to register with the Developer Center I re-enabled Connect via Network and the watch was no longer listed on the Devices screen. When I connect the phone via cable, however, the watch info appears.
So if you're using wireless connect, try just plugging the device in via cable and hopefully you'll see your watch in the list. Good luck!
I had to delete my Apple ID from the Accounts tab in Xcode preferences and then re-add it.
What worked for me is just waiting for about a minute. There was no progress bar in Xcode, just wait.
For me helped open iTunes at the MAC and leave it open.
Xcode 9.4.1
Check the phone is connected to the same wifi network as the computer.
I've just spent a few days struggling with this, trying the solutions above. Switched networks, waited a minute, now it works again. Gah.
I have four wifi SSIDs in my home (old house, thick walls, one router won't cover it properly) and it turned out the computer was choosing one, and the phone another.
I have the exact same setup and had the same problem. What seemed to work for me was just unpairing and pairing the watch again. Then Trust this computer on the watch and Xcode started to list it in the menu.
It seems that I updated the watchOS2 beta 5 on top of 1.0.1 which was paired earlier and it just needed to be re-set for watchOS2.
What worked for me was to open Xcode's Projects window and click the Delete button next to the Derived Data line for the currently open project. After that, the target automatically switched to show [My iPhone Name] + [My Watch Name].
My setup: Xcode 7, iOS 9 (public release), and watchOS 2 beta.
Open Watch app on device, scroll down to your app, and make sure to enable show app on apple watch
Setting Correct Provisioning profiles | Certificates | Team, then restarting Xcode worked for me.
You must have connected your Apple Watch with you iPhone by bluetooth, wifi connection won´t work for testing...
I really struggled with this problem but this helped me:
Fix steps :
Unpair my watch
Reboot both iPhone and apple watch
Pair them again,and setup my watch as a new one
Plug (unplug first) iPhone to Mac
On apple watch, say Trust the computer when it asks
Unplug and plug again
Close and open XCode
Open the project and wait a few seconds
I may have had a breakthrough....I turned off WIFI on my Mac and it instantly found the watch 😱
This worked for me (Xcode 11.3.1) :
Open Devices from Xcode
Disconnect iPhone from Mac
Disable bluetooth on iPhone
Re-connect iPhone to Mac
Verify iPhone is showing in Devices.
Turn on bluetooth on iPhone, wait to see that watch is connected on iPhone.
Look in Devices -> your iPhone -> Paired watches -> wait for the watch info to completely show.
At this point I was able to see watch in Xcode.
In some cases also needed to restart Watch & Phone as well.
This worked for me
1. Quit Xcode.
2. Disconnect iPhone
3. Remove cache files at /Users//Library/Developer/Xcode
4. Run Xcode.
5. Connect iPhone again
6. Xcode will start to download the symbol file
Just reconnect my iPhone to my Mac is solved my problem. When i reconnect my iPhone, xcode installed itself missed symbols automatically.
I had a similar issue where Xcode was not detecting my paired watch. Somehow, the beta provisioning profile had managed to get installed onto my phone and for some reason Xcode could not detect the paired watch. As soon as I deleted the provisioning profile, Xcode started to pick up the paired watch.
Creating a new watchOS project lead to download of symbols to resume and finish.
I unplugged the iPhone before "Processing symbol files" operation was finished. So Apple Watch never showed up again.
XCode 9 (beta 4). iOS 10 (beta 4). watchOS 2.2.2.
I just waited several minutes and then - it worked by itself.
WatchOS 4.1, XCODE 9.2.
The solution that worked for me with XCode 10.0: trash the whole Xcode folder in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode, removing only the watchOS DeviceSupport was not enough
New update to this issue. I have recently buy the ray wenderlich book for Watch OS and I have had this problem.
After testing a lot of things, and before delete any files, my working solution is this:
On MAC with Xcode open and with the issue scheme loaded. iPhone plugged in and watch turned on too.
1) On MAC turn off wifi
2) On MAC turn on wifi
3) On MAC turn off bluetooth
4) On MAC turn on bluetooth
I know this solution is above, but is the only way it has worked for me. Hope it helps to any dev too.
Check that Bluetooth is enabled. I restarted my Mac, my phone and my watch and that didn't help. When I looked in settings on the watch I found that Bluetooth was disabled.
In my case, rebooting the watch did not work, but after rebooting iPhone it did.
Xcode Version 12.2 (12B45b) seems to fixed all issues regarding the app transfer from your mac to your apple Watch.
When using trigger.io toolkit, there's an option that says
"Build and immediately run your app, either locally, on a simulator or on a connected device."
How do you run the app on a Connected Device? I want to see the app on my iPhone and see how it behaves directly. Is this possible?
Thanks
Marc
I'm going to assume you're working on windows with an iPhone that's iOS8 because that's where you currently can't run your app directly on a connected device.
What we did to "fix" this is creating a Development Provisioning Profile with the UDID's of our test devices and added this to config -> tools in the trigger.io toolkit. In the forge you now select package -> iOS giving you a .ipa file. This .ipa can now be installed using iTunes on your test devices.
It's a bit longer than just clicking run on device like you can for Android but at least you don't have to send it to testflight and wait for apple's approval.
This is possible but it depends on your os.
If your on a Mac you can deploy to both ios and android devices from forge, just connect them via usb and build, grated you need to make sure iTunes sees your devices etc.. there are guides on the trigger site
If you are on Windows, you are unfortunate out of luck right now, this used to work but ios8 broke this so if your building on ios7 you could still do it on Windows, otherwise you would need to use testpiolet from apple
I m having xcode 4.5,
I have connected my iTouch(registered in developer program) to Mac Machine. It is appearing in Organizer's Device list. But, it is not appearing in xcode's device list(where simulators are) in one of my project. It is also shown when i open my other proejects.
So, What may be the problem in my this project, in which device is not appearing. Is any settings should be changed??
See the image below and change the settings.
You might need to "trust" the computer - a device will not show up in the organizer if the computer is not trusted.
Restart the iPad while it is connected to the computer. When it restarts, it will ask if you want to "Trust" the computer or not. Do so, then the device will show up in the Xcode Organizer.
Restart XCode
Try Changing the USB Port.
Clean Project. Shift + command + K.
Clear Derive Data.
I tried everything and then found that my device was identified on a different Mac but not mine. Quit and Reopen XCode resolved it.
The deployment target for your project is probably too high (e.g. iOS 7 if you are using Xcode 5 DP). Change it to a minimum version compatible with your device and try again.
Go to organiser, select your device, click on remove button at bottom of organiser screen, unplug your device and connect it once again. That's it. your device should be appear in xcode.
Go to organiser and click your device in the left panel. On the right, see if it is registered for development or not. If not, click "Use for development".
Hope it helps !!
Got this problem too. I plug my phone to Apple Cinema Display. Turns out I forgot to plug in the display's USB cable to my MacBook Air, so only power goes to my device but no data transmission (/me facepalm big time).
My case, I was trying to run a sample app I just downloaded and didn't knew it was iPad only. And I had plugged-in an iPhone. :)
I’m using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) and my iPhone was connected through a USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter. The iPhone was no longer shown as a connected device. Tried connecting the iPhone directly to the MacBook without the Adapter and now it IS a connected device. I’m going to consider using a wireless connection for development.