Afternoon all,
We have a client who recently came via our offices and installed a development version of an app we have been working on for a trip to the States to show his colleagues.
He has just gone to test it and is getting the message that '"App Name" is no longer available"' when he tries to open it. We have tested our development devices and the same build of the app here and everything is working fine.
Is there anything we can try as he does not have access to Xcode for a fresh install of the app?
We have checked the developer certs and provisioning profiles and all seem ok and in date.
Thanks a lot.
If you gave it to them via ad hoc or something, the provisioning profile has probably expired so you would need to renew that. This is a similar problem I've met before. For the IPA file providing, you could try to upload your apps to Pgyer or TestFlight and provide the installation link to customer.
I have two iphone devices( 4s and 5 ) connected to my computer and i am trying to install an application in both the devices. It installs pretty well in iphone 5 but it gives an error 'The application could not be verified.' when attempted to install in the iphone 4s device.
The UDIDs of both the devices have been added in the provisioning profile generated for the application.
Also, to add a note, I have just updated my iphone version to 8.1.3 in my 4s device. I am not sure though if the error has anything to do with it.
Any help on this would be much appreciated. I have been stuck on this for some time now.
EDIT:
I just connected this to another iPhone device and the issue seems to be there again. Basically this means that the app, for some reason, installs only in the phone which I have been using for some time now and not in any other phone. Once again, I am pretty sure that the provisioning profile contains the UDIDs of all these 3 devices.
I had something similar happen to me just recently. I updated my iPhone to 8.1.3, and started getting the 'application could not be verified' error message from Xcode on an app that installed just fine on the same iOS device from the same Mac just a few days ago.
I deleted the app from the device, restarted Xcode, and the app subsequently installed on the device just fine without any error message. Not sure if deleting the app was the fix, or the problem was due to "the phase of the moon".
As I notice The application could not be verified. raise up because in your device there is already an app installed with the same bundle identifier.
I got this issue because in my device there is my app that download from App store. and i test its update Version from Xcode. And i used same identifier that is live app and my development testing app. So i just remove app-store Live app from my device and this error going to be fix.
just delete the app and try again, it happens to me when i try to launch over a device that has the same app but generated by an ipa file.
You probably used the "Fix Issue" option in Xcode when plugging in a new device. Old question but I believe this is the actual answer to WHY this is happening. When you install an app on a device it is signed with a specific development provisioning profile. If, for instance, you plug in another device that is not registered on your developer account Xcode will ask you to "fix the issue". When you press that the device is added and another provisioning profile is created/modified. If you try to overwrite an existing app you'll receive that error. Deleting the app and reinstalling it works since the profile has been altered. I find this often happens when a Team is set and a member plugs in a new device then Xcode "Fixes" the problem.
Might have figured it out... Deleting the app from the device worked for me, as others mentioned before (thanks!).
I think the reason is that the app on the device was actually signed with a separate provisioning profile, specifically a distribution profile in my case.
I faced this issue a lot. I am not sure if this is the issue, but I think, when xCode saw that there is an app with the same bundle identifier as of the app, I am trying to install, it didn't allow me. So, I had to delete the older one and attempted to install and it worked. However sometimes for testing purpose, I needed multiple version of the same app and in that case, I would change the bundle identifier and try to install. It only works if, I am using an wildcard provisioning profile.
To others not using RubyMotion and don't think that deleting the app is acceptable (as in, you want to do upgrade testing). Check out the bottom of these docs from Apple:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2319/_index.html
It looks like they changed something in 8.1.3 to check for this new rule.
The Fix
"[Add] the installed application’s application-identifier value, as logged in the second parentheses, to the previous-application-identifiers entitlement’s array value for the app being installed (by resigning it or re-building it) and requesting new special provisioning profiles as shown below."
<key>previous-application-identifiers</key>
<array>
<string>{Your Old App ID Prefix}.YourApp.Bundle.ID</string>
</array>
EDIT:
In order to do this, you need special provisioning profiles. You can request these from Apple:
"To enable signing with the previous-application-identifiers entitlement new special provisioning profiles are required that can be obtained by going to the Contact US page and requesting them." (from the docs linked above).
Had the same issue on my iPad running 8.1.3 Deleting the app and installing again fixed the issue. I use two different provisioning profiles on two different machines and that could have caused this issue.
Working & tested solution, which does not require to delete application:
It looks like AppStore Distribution Provisioning Profile or just iOS Distribution certificate have special permissions and "Could not be verified..." problem does not apply to them. They will always override previous certificate.
In other words: AppStore release will install successfully, even if already installed (testing, adhoc or enterprise) app has been signed by the certificate from different team.
If you are lucky and have previously uploaded app to the AppStore account owned by the same team as in certificate you have a problem with - then things are very simple: just download & install app from AppStore.
When it installs - app certificate will be the same as the one you want to test with and problem goes away.
If your app is not on the AppStore yet - iTunesConnect beta comes to the rescue:
Disclaimer: I did not tested this but since cert an prev are the same as AppStore release, I bet it works:
Archive your app with AppStore provisioning profile (iOS Distribution cert) and upload to iTunesConnect (to the account owned by the same developer team as included in the provisioning profile not you want to run).
Invite person with the device you want to run on (yourself?) to beta test.
Download & install the app from iTunes connect beta.
Now you are able to install your testing version.
The application could not be verified" , in your device there could be already an app installed with the same bundle identifier.
So Simple solution Just delete the App & try again..
....
TL;DR answer - There is no real solution besides "delete app and reinstall".
This answer is not satisfactory for many situations, when you have an existing database that needs to not get deleted within the app.
Lukasz and plivesey are the only ones with solutions that don't require delete, but neither worked for me.
I resolved this issue by changing the Build System to legacy in xcode.
I had the same problem but the mentioned solutions above didn't work for me. Even I had no previous app on device, I got this error when deploying on my device.
How to do:
Simply, go to menu File > Project Setting, inside Share Project Settings, change Build System from "New Build System (default)" to "Lagacy Build System".
I also encountered the same issue. Deleting the app didn't work, but when I tried deleting another app which was the current one's 'parent'(I copied the whole project from the previous app, modified some urls and images, then I clicked 'Run' and saw the unhappy 'could not be verified' dialog). Seems the issue is related to provisioning and code signing and/or some configurations of the project. Very tricky.
I had changed the team but I forgot to change it in my Tests target it so it caused that. Maybe this helps someone.
Just had the same problem and I found out that the issue is with expired certificate.
My app was distributed (AdHoc) through firebase and few days ago app was working just fine.
Today I've realized that I can't install it because 'The application could not be verified'.
Finally I realized that certificate that I was using for app signing has expired 2 days ago.
You need to upload it again and you'll be able to install it.
I had the same problem. But, I realised I was using a single plist with (debug) and (release) configuration, like this.
So, I changed few things..
Keeping a separate scheme for (release).
I added a new scheme for development purposes.
Edited the new scheme > run > Build Configuration > and set it to (release)
Generated a new archive using the new scheme and voila!!..
I'm able to install on all my devices.
My case:
jailbreak'ed iPhone
Final solution:
Install tweak AppSync Unified via Cydia
to bypass signing/certificate verification
Same issue occurred for me when I was installing through link. I tried to install using different link. Then I could install the app.
I have an IOS app that has been working fine with testflight. I made some changes to the app and tried to upload it to testflight as I had done before but testflight gives me an error "Invalid Profile: developer build entitlements must have get-task-allow set to true".
I have researched the problem and tried many of the suggested fixes.
I have restarted XCode and rebooted the computer.
I have checked the code signing properties for the app and tried several different settings.
I have revoked all of my apple certificates and created new ones.
The update I have done since my last successful upload to testflight was update the facebook SDK and use cocoapods with my app. Is this a problem with cocoapods? Do I need to set permissions for the pods?
I have been at this for 8 hours and I am no closer to figuring this out.
Here's a solution to the issue you've encountered:
http://help.testflightapp.com/customer/portal/articles/1530775-mismatched-get-task-allow-value
My Testflight environment i use for iOS crashed on me. I registered with a new account, created a new development provisioning profile in provisioning profiles, reinstalled testflight on my iPad, basically i did everything from scratch again.
It seemed to be working, testflight recognized my device and i was able to send out a new test app, but when i pressed the submit button, this strange screen appears saying
nonetype object has no attribute keys
.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Thanks in advance, Zoli
I encountered the same problem and sent a report to TestFlight support team.
But after I updated TestFlight App to the latest version now, it seems working fine.
Additional Info:
I got answer from TestFlight Support.
Sorry you are experiencing trouble.
To help troubleshoot this, please provide us with the following
information:
The .txt log (in the desktop app go to Help > Show Log in Finder)
The .IPA you are attempting to upload
The version of the desktop app you're using
Delete your testflight desktop app and try a new download/installation
Reinstalling it seems to work... or try updating it...
I'm new to iOS development and I'm having a bit of an issue deploying something for my client to test. I am using XCode v4.3.2. I was given an xcode project, and asked to make some minor coding changes, mainly to get my feet wet. I made the changes, compiled the app, ran it in the emulator, it worked fine. I tethered my iPhone to the macbook and followed apple's instructions to set up my phone as the dev phone, ran it from the phone, no problems.
Now the part I need help with. The company has a development license with Apple. They sent me an invite through Apple, which I accepted, which generated an Apple dev license for me. The project I took over had a bunch of code signing keys associated with it, that were all expired, so I switched over the keys to the one that was generated for me. I archived the project, and then saved it for adhoc/enterprise, which generated a .ipa file. They tried to load the ipa onto an iPod Touch (which the project has previously worked on) and it generated an error saying that it didnt have entitlements.
I checked Stackoverflow and found an article that stated how to add entitlements, so I followed them, and now in Code Signing Entitlements (in the Build Settings) it says : [ProjectName].entitlements (where the [ProjectName] is the actual project name :) ). I reaarchived and sent to her, and she tried to load the new .ipa. Now on the sync, she gets "not installed on ipod because an unknown error occurred (0xE8003FFE)".
This is driving me nuts... what am I doing wrong? I have the device ID for her iPod, just in case, do I have to set up some specific "thing" for her as an adhoc tester? I figured it would just work.... Please help!
I would suggest you have a look at
https://testflightapp.com/
It is an easier way to distribute builds to your clients and testers.
I use it regularly and it saves a lot of headache...
We use hockeyapp.net with great success. We've been using this for quite some time and our clients love the simplicity of OTA beta distributions.
Another company worth investigating is www.appblade.com. If you want a solution that blends iOS with Android and other platforms it works well. Testflight has been migrated into iTunes Connect.