I'm having trouble exporting an app for Ad Hoc Distribution on Xcode 6 beta 2:
When exporting my project for ad hoc development on Xcode 6, I receive this alert. I've tried exporting it on Xcode 5 and had no problems at all saving the .ipa. Is anyone experiencing this problem as well?
I've had the same issue two days ago. Turns out the problem was:
I have my own developer distribution certificate with a proper private key
I have enterprise developer distribution certificate of my client without a private key
I try to make an enterprise distribution package for my client
Xcode throws at me vague error: Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate
The solution is: get a private key for enterprise account of my client. There are 2 possible options:
Ask you client for credentials to access his enterprise developer account on Apple website. Revoke old certificate and recreate it. You'll create the private key in the process. BEWARE: revoking an enterprise distribution certificate invalidates all apps that were signed and deployed with that certificate (official info).
Ask your client to export his private key from his Keychain Access application as a *.p12 file and send it to you with a password. You can't download the existing private key from the Apple website. The only way to get it is to ask your client. I did it and it and I was able to finally make the package.
How to find out if you have a private key for a certificate: Open Keychain Access application. Choose certificates. Find your certificate. If you see small grey triangle on the left side of the certificate, open it and you see your private key. No triangle = no private key.
This is what worked for me.
On my machine I kept both Xcode 5 and Xcode 6 beta.
From Xcode 6 beta, Archive the project. Close Xcode 6.
Open Xcode 5, go to Organizer and export as Ad Hoc build with proper provisioning profile.
That's it!
I had the same problem, I had to use the command line "xcodebuild" tool as a workaround, with only Xcode 6 installed (didn't have to re-install Xcode 5).
http://www.thecave.com/2014/09/16/using-xcodebuild-to-export-a-ipa-from-an-archive/
Example:
xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath $projectname.xcarchive -exportPath $projectname -exportFormat ipa -exportProvisioningProfile "Provisioning Profile Name"
In my case, what solved the problem was deleting all Distribution Certificates from my Apple Developer Account. Then, Xcode managed to create development and distribution certificates again, and that did the trick.
I get a solution without renew the certificate:
1 - Archive the target with the appropiate Code Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile
2 - Right button in the created file in Organizer --> Show in Finder
3 - Right button in the xcarchive file --> Show package content
4 - There, in Finder, go to Products/Applications/
5 - Upload the file Products/Applications/appName to iTunes
6 - When the app appear in iTunes, right click on it --> Show in Finder. This is the ipa file
7 - Send this ipa through App Loader 3.0
I dont think that it is a lasting solution but do not want to delete my certificates
FINALLY SOLVED IT!!
1) Create a NEW production certificate through developer.apple.com which requires you to use Keychain Access to create a new private key on your computer
2) In the same developer portal, open your distribution Provisioning Profile used with this app and select the new production certificate which you just created. Generate the provision then download it and run it
3) Run your app, Archive it, then export the archive.
viola
This took me days if not weeks to figure out, I hope it helps you.
Create new iOS Distributon Certificate and choose Production> App Store & AdHoc section. Also don't forget to change Target>Build Settings> Code Signing all to iOS Distribution.(but after created ipa set it back to iOS Developer)
Only this solved my problem.
I faced the same issue today with Xcode 6.1.1
When I tried to add iOS Distribution certificate via Xcode the error I got was the same. There were already several issued distribution certificates in Member Center and I did not want to invalidate them because if they are used for Ad Hoc distribution in an Enterprise environment this would also invalidate the applications that are installed on the devices (at least this is what I've read).
What I did was:
1. Through Keychain Access generated a request for a certificate from a certification authority. And saved the request to a file;
2. Logged in to Member Center certificates area Production section and requested a new "App Store and Ad Hoc" production certificate, this requested the file from step 1;
3. Downloaded the new certificate and when imported in Keychain Access it now had a private key.
Afterwords I cleaned Xcode, restarted it, checked that in my account the profile is visible and built a new Archive. And now I was able to validate the archive.
Now if I try to request a new "App Store and Ad Hoc" certificate this option is grayed out for me and I suppose this is because my account already has the certificate issued. If this is your case you will most probably need to invalidate your previous certificate before you can issue a new one. This is why Apple recommend backing up your certificate. But it is very likely that you will not need to invalidate all production certificates as I already have a number of those in the profile.
Hope this helps someone :)
Apple has changed the way of Ad Hoc build. Now you can't make Ad Hoc distribution builds using dev cert. You should use a distribution cert with an "Ad Hoc" provisioning profile instead.
I believe the actual reason you ended up in this screen is while trying to get the .ipa file to be distributed to your testers and clients.
In Xcode 6, to get the .ipa file you may use the old method for iPA generation:
Select organiser in Xcode. In the Archives tab select the Archive whose iPA file you need to generate.
Right click and select option “Show in Finder”
You will see the .xarchive file. Right click and select “Show Package Contents”
You will see folders: dSYMs, Info.plist and Products.
Open Products>Applications and you will see your .app file.
Drag and drop this .app file to iTunes in Mac.
Your .app file will be listed under "My Apps" in iTunes.
Right click on your application and select “Show in Finder”.
Now you have the .ipa file which you can send to your testers for testing.
Hope this helps.
There has been changes in way apple manages our private and public key.
The previous method to share account on two machine was
1.download provisioning
2.export/checkout certificate
install them both on the other mac
but now you dont have to do that you export your entire account.
1.XCode -> preferences -> account (select account) on bottom left there is option to export that
you will be prompted to give a password give any it will be required while importing on other system.A .developerprofile file will be downloaded on location of your choice.
2.download it on other mac and when you see the prompt your device already have valid signing identity click on import Developer Profile and import this .developerprofile file. enter password when prompted.
got help from here
I resolved it following the next steps:
1)in your apple developer account: Create a new Production Certificate Choose the App Store and Ad Hoc Option
2)in your apple developer account: Create a new provisioning profile with you current bundle id and the certificate created in the step one
3)in your xcode:
Select your target
In the tab Build Settings in the zone Code Signing
In the sub-zone Code Signing Identity - Release
Set your new distribution certificate (ad hoc)
In the Provisioning Profile - set your new provisioning profile (ad hoc)
Seems that xcode 6 now requires an ad hoc distribution certificate in order to export your IPA.
I got the same issue today, and found a good solution I think.
First of all, there're something unnormal:
the normal is:
and in the keychain:
the normal is:
then, I realize that I lack the the correct provisioning profile which contains the correct iOS Distribution certificate.
Finally, my solution is: use my CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest file to generate a new iOS distribution certificate, and use the new iOS distribution certificate to generate a new provisioning profile.
Note, I don't delete the old certification and provisioning profile, because my colleague works well with them. Does this affect the apps I already published? The answer is NO. I just change the code signing certificate, and some important certificate like push notification certificate is ties with app ID:
So don't worry about that.
Hope the above is helpful.
As pointed out by a commenter this has proven to be a solution for myself and others:
I deleted and re-downloaded all my required certificates along with the keys needed to generate and i was able to get past this error
I revoke my producion certificates, and request another one, solve this problem.
Maybe you need restart your xcode.
I just encountered this after upgrading from Xcode 5 to 6.
In my case creating a new production certificate and then recreating the distribution provisioning profile for my app did the trick.
In the official latest Xcode 6.0, this will happen if you accidentally created a record in your entitlements file that has a key like this:
com.apple.security.application-groups
I am not sure if Xcode automatically created it by default. But deleting that key solved my problem. I didn't have to recreate any certificates. It was not my problem.
I solved this by simply regenerating the provisioning profile on the developer portal (in my case an App Store profile) and adding to my computer via iPhone Configuration Utility. I didn't want to mess with the certificates and successfully avoided that.
I noticed this error message logged from Xcode in my console:
None of the valid provisioning profiles allowed the specified entitlements: application-identifier, beta-reports-active, keychain-access-groups.
After downloading a the new provisioning profile, the missing beta-reports-active = true was present and Xcode signed the build.
My Solution was Delete the only iOS Production Certificate which I'm using and create it again. Doing this, you must create a new Provisioning profile assigning the certificate just created.
then I did the process of Archive again and works!
Additionally I found that Xcode Accounts come into play -
It turned out that I did have a valid distribution certificate on my personal account (mobilology) so I deleted that account temporarily from the Accounts section (you may wish to leave only that account that you are distributing from).
Suddenly the signing / archiving process worked!
Step1:-Login to your apple developer account
Step2:-Choose Certificates
Step3:-Delete if there are more than one distribution certificates
Step4:-Then retry archiving ( if error still exist, revoke all certificates and create new distribution certificate and edit your provision profiles.)
I think its a bug from Xcode. to make it work, i need delete the actual distribution provisional profile and i had to make a new provisional distribution profile from devcenter. This works from me
I also faced the same problem, i was using development certificate instead of Adhoc. Issue is fixed after using Adhoc certificate.
Delete you ios Distribution certificate from the apple developer site and regenrate the ios Distribution with the certSignReq file. Works for me always. Your other apps wouldnt be affected . Atleast in my case it never did.
In my case I generated a new distribution profile and added it to XCode, then tried to submit the build. Turns out, all I had to do to get rid of this message is restart XCode and attempt again to submit. Worked.
In my case, I got the error message when trying to export and AdHoc build from Organizer. I did two things, either of which may have fixed the issue:
1) Exported the existing certificate it claimed I did not have from my keychain, deleted it from keychain, re-imported.
2) Created an ad-hoc distribution certificate, refreshed XCode account to obtain the new distribution provisioning profile.
After that I was able to export the exact same archive to an AdHoc build. I really think it was only that fact I was missing an ad-hoc distribution that targeted that specifc bundleID that led to XCode being confused.
Followup: The archive I had created before did not work, I had to re-generate it. A clue this was an issue was that when selecting the archive and opting to export an Ad-Hoc build, the default account selected was the wrong account for the build (the project had no default account selected when I archived the build).
This is what worked for me (Enterprise Account)
Import the developer profile from the other machine, which loaded the certificate I needed with the secret key.
Rename the app bundle to the enterprise name (it was named under the app store name).
Change the team name in the "General" tab to my company's team - it was defaulting to my personal developer account!
With these changes, I could export an ipa as both ad-hoc and enterprise, upload it to Hockey Rink, and download it on my phone
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While trying to generate IPA for testing purposes, I receive a message:
"You have a valid iOS Distribution certificate in the Member Center, but it is not installed locally. If your signing identity is installed on another Mac, you export developer profile on that Mac and import it on this Mac. You can revoke current certificate and request a new one."
Why is this happening?
This is what worked for me.
On my machine I kept both Xcode 5 and Xcode 6 .
From Xcode 6 beta, Archive the project. Close Xcode 6.
Open Xcode 5, go to Organizer and export as Ad Hoc build with proper provisioning profile.
That's it!
Majority of these problems are very easily solvable by Fastlane. In no way I want to promote a product - it's an open-source tool and saved me hell lot of time.
It was Xcode bug.
When I tried to export developer profile from another system and installed in my system its working fine.
This worked for me
created new CSR (code signing request)
created new Distribution certificate with the CSR, once created go download and double click to install
create a app id if you dont already have one
create your distribution provisioning profile, select your app id and certificate you created
after you create it, go download, and double click to install
restart xcode
Go to Keychain Access
Keychain>Certificate Assistant> Request a Certificate from Certificate Authority.
Fill in the email. (keep others as default values)
Save the file.
Log in to Apple Member Center
Go to Certificate, profiles Provisioning Profiles
Click on Add button on top Right corner
Select App ID from the dropdown
Select the profile you wish to include.
Click on Generate and
Download the Distribution certificate
Open keychain Access
Go to file>Import Items
Select the Distribution certificate.
It should work now.
in my case everything was done as per the manual (I'm experienced in this stuff) but it turns out xcode was acting out.
I used the user local signing assets and I was done :)
I'm using the latest XCode (6.1) and I need to submit the app as soon as possible, but I can't seem to get around the "Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate" error.
I have the client's provisioning profile and I have his distribution certificate (which is valid) and his private key (I've checked using Keychain, it's definitely there). The bundle ID is also correct. I've deleted my provisioning profiles and certificates and reinstalled the client's many times now.
What could be causing this issue? I've seen a lot of topics here on SO with this problem, so I apologise beforehand for creating yet another clone, but I really don't know how to fix this.
edit: I'm running a brand new install of Yosemite by the way
Got it solved by editing the iOS Distribution Provision Profile in the Developer Member Center.
For some reason there were 2 certificates to choose from for the Distribution Provisioning Profile. I switched over to the other certificate and I could Validate and Submit my Archive build for beta testing.
So, you may have more than one certificate for signing your Provision profiles. Make sure you have the right one (by trying all of them) and hopefully that should work.
I tried many things like Exporting Developer profile from Xcode Accounts and importing it in the organizer, installing the provision profiles from the member center, adding them to my keychain. But none of those worked. It started working only after editing the appropriate Provisioning Profile manually.
You could also trying removing all your available Provisioning Profiles and let Xcode create new ones for you. This will work too.
I also had this issue, which turned out to be caused by an attempt to export for ad hoc deployment using a development provisioning profile instead of a distribution profile. It seems this is no longer supported in Xcode 6.1. Once I created an ad hoc profile and installed that the problem went away. A more useful error message would have saved me hours of work and would be greatly appreciated, Apple.
This thread was helpful:
xcode 6 beta 2 issue with exporting ipa "Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate"
Besides all the other answers, there's one more possibility after 2/15/2016: the old World Wide certificate expired and I guess everyone has already downloaded the new cert (or check this out). However, you'll be seeing this error if you haven't remove the expired one. You may need to choose View -> Show Expired Certificates to unhide expired certs. If the error is still there, try regenerate provisioning profile as advised by the others.
I was moving to new Mac when I faced this issue.
On your older Mac:
Go Preferences > Accounts > Select Account > Details.
In the dropdown right click on iOS Distribution (or whatever is the name of your distribution certificate).
Export...
Set a password for the .p12 file.
Move and install this .p12 in the new mac.
Try Again.
Another possible cause for the problem (at least in my case) was that in my Keychain Access, I had two certificates for the team I was working with. One was expired, and the other one was the one I wanted to use. Deleting the expired certificate in Keychain Access solved the issue.
I ran into this problem, and I wanted to avoid screwing up my push notifications.
The easy fix for me was to just go to developer.apple.com > project > certifications, ids, and profiles > profiles > create a new profile (for development or distribution)
Download the created profile, drag and drop the profile over the Xcode icon, and then in your project target, set the new profile as the provisioning profile.
This fixed my problem--it may provide further help in the future.
The error message could mean that you need to get the Distribution certificate and private key from the developer who created them.
This can happen if some other team member has pressed the enticing "Reset" button (which means revoke certificate and create a new one).
Here is a picture what the revoked certificate looks like:
You can export the valid certificate from the developer who created
it and import it to other team members keychains.
Go to "Keychain Access" app.
Click on the "Login" in the top left box
Click on the "Certificates" on the bottom left box
Check which team member has the valid certificate:
when clicking on the "iPhone Distribution" certificate
everyone else sees "This certificate is revoked" in red at the top.
(Maybe backup the deleted certificate to avoid doing anything irreversible)
delete the revoked certificates
Export the one valid certificate and distribute to team
Import the certificate file for everyone else
Today I was solve problem by delete from keychain old certificate Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority and install new one (exp. in 2023)
I'll add to here because while the accepted answer got me on the right track it wasn't the solution. There was a second (automatically created by Xcode) distro cert which I revoked. After doing that a new error came up. ("An App ID with Identifier '' is not available"... it also wasn't helpful) Eventually this lead me to the fact that my App Id in the member portal didn't have entitlements matching the build.
I solved this issue by editing the provisioning profile in the member center which is used in my app and re-install the provisioning profile.
I recently changed computer.
The reason for me was that I had several developer certificates in the Apple Developer member portal.
The solution was :
Go to Apple Developer Portal
Go Under Certificates -> Production
Click on "Revoke" for the oldest certificates and keep the most recent one
Revoking certificates won´t affect your Apple Store apps :).
I had this happen to me when I accidentally reset the certificate on another mac. Here's my scenario.
Mac1 - Had working certificate.
Mac2 - I accidentally reset the iOS distribution certificate
Mac1 stopped working and I get the message "Your account already has a valid distribution certificate"
The fix was
On Mac2, Keychain access -> certificates -> iOS Distribution certificate (for you/your company) -> export to p12 file (it will ask you to set a password)
Copy the exported file to Mac1
On Mac1, Keychain access -> certificates -> iOS Distribution certificate (for you/your company) -> delete (this is the old one that does not work)
On Mac1, double click the p12 file (then enter your password).
You should see a new iOS distribution certificate (for you/your company) in the certificate section of Keychain access.
This fixed the issue for me on Mac1.
Got it solved by deleting the provisioning profile which is managed by Xcode
(XC iOS Ad Hoc: *) from the member center
I'm having trouble exporting an app for Ad Hoc Distribution on Xcode 6 beta 2:
When exporting my project for ad hoc development on Xcode 6, I receive this alert. I've tried exporting it on Xcode 5 and had no problems at all saving the .ipa. Is anyone experiencing this problem as well?
I've had the same issue two days ago. Turns out the problem was:
I have my own developer distribution certificate with a proper private key
I have enterprise developer distribution certificate of my client without a private key
I try to make an enterprise distribution package for my client
Xcode throws at me vague error: Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate
The solution is: get a private key for enterprise account of my client. There are 2 possible options:
Ask you client for credentials to access his enterprise developer account on Apple website. Revoke old certificate and recreate it. You'll create the private key in the process. BEWARE: revoking an enterprise distribution certificate invalidates all apps that were signed and deployed with that certificate (official info).
Ask your client to export his private key from his Keychain Access application as a *.p12 file and send it to you with a password. You can't download the existing private key from the Apple website. The only way to get it is to ask your client. I did it and it and I was able to finally make the package.
How to find out if you have a private key for a certificate: Open Keychain Access application. Choose certificates. Find your certificate. If you see small grey triangle on the left side of the certificate, open it and you see your private key. No triangle = no private key.
This is what worked for me.
On my machine I kept both Xcode 5 and Xcode 6 beta.
From Xcode 6 beta, Archive the project. Close Xcode 6.
Open Xcode 5, go to Organizer and export as Ad Hoc build with proper provisioning profile.
That's it!
I had the same problem, I had to use the command line "xcodebuild" tool as a workaround, with only Xcode 6 installed (didn't have to re-install Xcode 5).
http://www.thecave.com/2014/09/16/using-xcodebuild-to-export-a-ipa-from-an-archive/
Example:
xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath $projectname.xcarchive -exportPath $projectname -exportFormat ipa -exportProvisioningProfile "Provisioning Profile Name"
In my case, what solved the problem was deleting all Distribution Certificates from my Apple Developer Account. Then, Xcode managed to create development and distribution certificates again, and that did the trick.
I get a solution without renew the certificate:
1 - Archive the target with the appropiate Code Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile
2 - Right button in the created file in Organizer --> Show in Finder
3 - Right button in the xcarchive file --> Show package content
4 - There, in Finder, go to Products/Applications/
5 - Upload the file Products/Applications/appName to iTunes
6 - When the app appear in iTunes, right click on it --> Show in Finder. This is the ipa file
7 - Send this ipa through App Loader 3.0
I dont think that it is a lasting solution but do not want to delete my certificates
FINALLY SOLVED IT!!
1) Create a NEW production certificate through developer.apple.com which requires you to use Keychain Access to create a new private key on your computer
2) In the same developer portal, open your distribution Provisioning Profile used with this app and select the new production certificate which you just created. Generate the provision then download it and run it
3) Run your app, Archive it, then export the archive.
viola
This took me days if not weeks to figure out, I hope it helps you.
Create new iOS Distributon Certificate and choose Production> App Store & AdHoc section. Also don't forget to change Target>Build Settings> Code Signing all to iOS Distribution.(but after created ipa set it back to iOS Developer)
Only this solved my problem.
I faced the same issue today with Xcode 6.1.1
When I tried to add iOS Distribution certificate via Xcode the error I got was the same. There were already several issued distribution certificates in Member Center and I did not want to invalidate them because if they are used for Ad Hoc distribution in an Enterprise environment this would also invalidate the applications that are installed on the devices (at least this is what I've read).
What I did was:
1. Through Keychain Access generated a request for a certificate from a certification authority. And saved the request to a file;
2. Logged in to Member Center certificates area Production section and requested a new "App Store and Ad Hoc" production certificate, this requested the file from step 1;
3. Downloaded the new certificate and when imported in Keychain Access it now had a private key.
Afterwords I cleaned Xcode, restarted it, checked that in my account the profile is visible and built a new Archive. And now I was able to validate the archive.
Now if I try to request a new "App Store and Ad Hoc" certificate this option is grayed out for me and I suppose this is because my account already has the certificate issued. If this is your case you will most probably need to invalidate your previous certificate before you can issue a new one. This is why Apple recommend backing up your certificate. But it is very likely that you will not need to invalidate all production certificates as I already have a number of those in the profile.
Hope this helps someone :)
Apple has changed the way of Ad Hoc build. Now you can't make Ad Hoc distribution builds using dev cert. You should use a distribution cert with an "Ad Hoc" provisioning profile instead.
I believe the actual reason you ended up in this screen is while trying to get the .ipa file to be distributed to your testers and clients.
In Xcode 6, to get the .ipa file you may use the old method for iPA generation:
Select organiser in Xcode. In the Archives tab select the Archive whose iPA file you need to generate.
Right click and select option “Show in Finder”
You will see the .xarchive file. Right click and select “Show Package Contents”
You will see folders: dSYMs, Info.plist and Products.
Open Products>Applications and you will see your .app file.
Drag and drop this .app file to iTunes in Mac.
Your .app file will be listed under "My Apps" in iTunes.
Right click on your application and select “Show in Finder”.
Now you have the .ipa file which you can send to your testers for testing.
Hope this helps.
There has been changes in way apple manages our private and public key.
The previous method to share account on two machine was
1.download provisioning
2.export/checkout certificate
install them both on the other mac
but now you dont have to do that you export your entire account.
1.XCode -> preferences -> account (select account) on bottom left there is option to export that
you will be prompted to give a password give any it will be required while importing on other system.A .developerprofile file will be downloaded on location of your choice.
2.download it on other mac and when you see the prompt your device already have valid signing identity click on import Developer Profile and import this .developerprofile file. enter password when prompted.
got help from here
I resolved it following the next steps:
1)in your apple developer account: Create a new Production Certificate Choose the App Store and Ad Hoc Option
2)in your apple developer account: Create a new provisioning profile with you current bundle id and the certificate created in the step one
3)in your xcode:
Select your target
In the tab Build Settings in the zone Code Signing
In the sub-zone Code Signing Identity - Release
Set your new distribution certificate (ad hoc)
In the Provisioning Profile - set your new provisioning profile (ad hoc)
Seems that xcode 6 now requires an ad hoc distribution certificate in order to export your IPA.
I got the same issue today, and found a good solution I think.
First of all, there're something unnormal:
the normal is:
and in the keychain:
the normal is:
then, I realize that I lack the the correct provisioning profile which contains the correct iOS Distribution certificate.
Finally, my solution is: use my CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest file to generate a new iOS distribution certificate, and use the new iOS distribution certificate to generate a new provisioning profile.
Note, I don't delete the old certification and provisioning profile, because my colleague works well with them. Does this affect the apps I already published? The answer is NO. I just change the code signing certificate, and some important certificate like push notification certificate is ties with app ID:
So don't worry about that.
Hope the above is helpful.
As pointed out by a commenter this has proven to be a solution for myself and others:
I deleted and re-downloaded all my required certificates along with the keys needed to generate and i was able to get past this error
I revoke my producion certificates, and request another one, solve this problem.
Maybe you need restart your xcode.
I just encountered this after upgrading from Xcode 5 to 6.
In my case creating a new production certificate and then recreating the distribution provisioning profile for my app did the trick.
In the official latest Xcode 6.0, this will happen if you accidentally created a record in your entitlements file that has a key like this:
com.apple.security.application-groups
I am not sure if Xcode automatically created it by default. But deleting that key solved my problem. I didn't have to recreate any certificates. It was not my problem.
I solved this by simply regenerating the provisioning profile on the developer portal (in my case an App Store profile) and adding to my computer via iPhone Configuration Utility. I didn't want to mess with the certificates and successfully avoided that.
I noticed this error message logged from Xcode in my console:
None of the valid provisioning profiles allowed the specified entitlements: application-identifier, beta-reports-active, keychain-access-groups.
After downloading a the new provisioning profile, the missing beta-reports-active = true was present and Xcode signed the build.
My Solution was Delete the only iOS Production Certificate which I'm using and create it again. Doing this, you must create a new Provisioning profile assigning the certificate just created.
then I did the process of Archive again and works!
Additionally I found that Xcode Accounts come into play -
It turned out that I did have a valid distribution certificate on my personal account (mobilology) so I deleted that account temporarily from the Accounts section (you may wish to leave only that account that you are distributing from).
Suddenly the signing / archiving process worked!
Step1:-Login to your apple developer account
Step2:-Choose Certificates
Step3:-Delete if there are more than one distribution certificates
Step4:-Then retry archiving ( if error still exist, revoke all certificates and create new distribution certificate and edit your provision profiles.)
I think its a bug from Xcode. to make it work, i need delete the actual distribution provisional profile and i had to make a new provisional distribution profile from devcenter. This works from me
I also faced the same problem, i was using development certificate instead of Adhoc. Issue is fixed after using Adhoc certificate.
Delete you ios Distribution certificate from the apple developer site and regenrate the ios Distribution with the certSignReq file. Works for me always. Your other apps wouldnt be affected . Atleast in my case it never did.
In my case I generated a new distribution profile and added it to XCode, then tried to submit the build. Turns out, all I had to do to get rid of this message is restart XCode and attempt again to submit. Worked.
In my case, I got the error message when trying to export and AdHoc build from Organizer. I did two things, either of which may have fixed the issue:
1) Exported the existing certificate it claimed I did not have from my keychain, deleted it from keychain, re-imported.
2) Created an ad-hoc distribution certificate, refreshed XCode account to obtain the new distribution provisioning profile.
After that I was able to export the exact same archive to an AdHoc build. I really think it was only that fact I was missing an ad-hoc distribution that targeted that specifc bundleID that led to XCode being confused.
Followup: The archive I had created before did not work, I had to re-generate it. A clue this was an issue was that when selecting the archive and opting to export an Ad-Hoc build, the default account selected was the wrong account for the build (the project had no default account selected when I archived the build).
This is what worked for me (Enterprise Account)
Import the developer profile from the other machine, which loaded the certificate I needed with the secret key.
Rename the app bundle to the enterprise name (it was named under the app store name).
Change the team name in the "General" tab to my company's team - it was defaulting to my personal developer account!
With these changes, I could export an ipa as both ad-hoc and enterprise, upload it to Hockey Rink, and download it on my phone
I'm having trouble exporting an app for Ad Hoc Distribution on Xcode 6 beta 2:
When exporting my project for ad hoc development on Xcode 6, I receive this alert. I've tried exporting it on Xcode 5 and had no problems at all saving the .ipa. Is anyone experiencing this problem as well?
I've had the same issue two days ago. Turns out the problem was:
I have my own developer distribution certificate with a proper private key
I have enterprise developer distribution certificate of my client without a private key
I try to make an enterprise distribution package for my client
Xcode throws at me vague error: Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate
The solution is: get a private key for enterprise account of my client. There are 2 possible options:
Ask you client for credentials to access his enterprise developer account on Apple website. Revoke old certificate and recreate it. You'll create the private key in the process. BEWARE: revoking an enterprise distribution certificate invalidates all apps that were signed and deployed with that certificate (official info).
Ask your client to export his private key from his Keychain Access application as a *.p12 file and send it to you with a password. You can't download the existing private key from the Apple website. The only way to get it is to ask your client. I did it and it and I was able to finally make the package.
How to find out if you have a private key for a certificate: Open Keychain Access application. Choose certificates. Find your certificate. If you see small grey triangle on the left side of the certificate, open it and you see your private key. No triangle = no private key.
This is what worked for me.
On my machine I kept both Xcode 5 and Xcode 6 beta.
From Xcode 6 beta, Archive the project. Close Xcode 6.
Open Xcode 5, go to Organizer and export as Ad Hoc build with proper provisioning profile.
That's it!
I had the same problem, I had to use the command line "xcodebuild" tool as a workaround, with only Xcode 6 installed (didn't have to re-install Xcode 5).
http://www.thecave.com/2014/09/16/using-xcodebuild-to-export-a-ipa-from-an-archive/
Example:
xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath $projectname.xcarchive -exportPath $projectname -exportFormat ipa -exportProvisioningProfile "Provisioning Profile Name"
In my case, what solved the problem was deleting all Distribution Certificates from my Apple Developer Account. Then, Xcode managed to create development and distribution certificates again, and that did the trick.
I get a solution without renew the certificate:
1 - Archive the target with the appropiate Code Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile
2 - Right button in the created file in Organizer --> Show in Finder
3 - Right button in the xcarchive file --> Show package content
4 - There, in Finder, go to Products/Applications/
5 - Upload the file Products/Applications/appName to iTunes
6 - When the app appear in iTunes, right click on it --> Show in Finder. This is the ipa file
7 - Send this ipa through App Loader 3.0
I dont think that it is a lasting solution but do not want to delete my certificates
FINALLY SOLVED IT!!
1) Create a NEW production certificate through developer.apple.com which requires you to use Keychain Access to create a new private key on your computer
2) In the same developer portal, open your distribution Provisioning Profile used with this app and select the new production certificate which you just created. Generate the provision then download it and run it
3) Run your app, Archive it, then export the archive.
viola
This took me days if not weeks to figure out, I hope it helps you.
Create new iOS Distributon Certificate and choose Production> App Store & AdHoc section. Also don't forget to change Target>Build Settings> Code Signing all to iOS Distribution.(but after created ipa set it back to iOS Developer)
Only this solved my problem.
I faced the same issue today with Xcode 6.1.1
When I tried to add iOS Distribution certificate via Xcode the error I got was the same. There were already several issued distribution certificates in Member Center and I did not want to invalidate them because if they are used for Ad Hoc distribution in an Enterprise environment this would also invalidate the applications that are installed on the devices (at least this is what I've read).
What I did was:
1. Through Keychain Access generated a request for a certificate from a certification authority. And saved the request to a file;
2. Logged in to Member Center certificates area Production section and requested a new "App Store and Ad Hoc" production certificate, this requested the file from step 1;
3. Downloaded the new certificate and when imported in Keychain Access it now had a private key.
Afterwords I cleaned Xcode, restarted it, checked that in my account the profile is visible and built a new Archive. And now I was able to validate the archive.
Now if I try to request a new "App Store and Ad Hoc" certificate this option is grayed out for me and I suppose this is because my account already has the certificate issued. If this is your case you will most probably need to invalidate your previous certificate before you can issue a new one. This is why Apple recommend backing up your certificate. But it is very likely that you will not need to invalidate all production certificates as I already have a number of those in the profile.
Hope this helps someone :)
Apple has changed the way of Ad Hoc build. Now you can't make Ad Hoc distribution builds using dev cert. You should use a distribution cert with an "Ad Hoc" provisioning profile instead.
I believe the actual reason you ended up in this screen is while trying to get the .ipa file to be distributed to your testers and clients.
In Xcode 6, to get the .ipa file you may use the old method for iPA generation:
Select organiser in Xcode. In the Archives tab select the Archive whose iPA file you need to generate.
Right click and select option “Show in Finder”
You will see the .xarchive file. Right click and select “Show Package Contents”
You will see folders: dSYMs, Info.plist and Products.
Open Products>Applications and you will see your .app file.
Drag and drop this .app file to iTunes in Mac.
Your .app file will be listed under "My Apps" in iTunes.
Right click on your application and select “Show in Finder”.
Now you have the .ipa file which you can send to your testers for testing.
Hope this helps.
There has been changes in way apple manages our private and public key.
The previous method to share account on two machine was
1.download provisioning
2.export/checkout certificate
install them both on the other mac
but now you dont have to do that you export your entire account.
1.XCode -> preferences -> account (select account) on bottom left there is option to export that
you will be prompted to give a password give any it will be required while importing on other system.A .developerprofile file will be downloaded on location of your choice.
2.download it on other mac and when you see the prompt your device already have valid signing identity click on import Developer Profile and import this .developerprofile file. enter password when prompted.
got help from here
I resolved it following the next steps:
1)in your apple developer account: Create a new Production Certificate Choose the App Store and Ad Hoc Option
2)in your apple developer account: Create a new provisioning profile with you current bundle id and the certificate created in the step one
3)in your xcode:
Select your target
In the tab Build Settings in the zone Code Signing
In the sub-zone Code Signing Identity - Release
Set your new distribution certificate (ad hoc)
In the Provisioning Profile - set your new provisioning profile (ad hoc)
Seems that xcode 6 now requires an ad hoc distribution certificate in order to export your IPA.
I got the same issue today, and found a good solution I think.
First of all, there're something unnormal:
the normal is:
and in the keychain:
the normal is:
then, I realize that I lack the the correct provisioning profile which contains the correct iOS Distribution certificate.
Finally, my solution is: use my CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest file to generate a new iOS distribution certificate, and use the new iOS distribution certificate to generate a new provisioning profile.
Note, I don't delete the old certification and provisioning profile, because my colleague works well with them. Does this affect the apps I already published? The answer is NO. I just change the code signing certificate, and some important certificate like push notification certificate is ties with app ID:
So don't worry about that.
Hope the above is helpful.
As pointed out by a commenter this has proven to be a solution for myself and others:
I deleted and re-downloaded all my required certificates along with the keys needed to generate and i was able to get past this error
I revoke my producion certificates, and request another one, solve this problem.
Maybe you need restart your xcode.
I just encountered this after upgrading from Xcode 5 to 6.
In my case creating a new production certificate and then recreating the distribution provisioning profile for my app did the trick.
In the official latest Xcode 6.0, this will happen if you accidentally created a record in your entitlements file that has a key like this:
com.apple.security.application-groups
I am not sure if Xcode automatically created it by default. But deleting that key solved my problem. I didn't have to recreate any certificates. It was not my problem.
I solved this by simply regenerating the provisioning profile on the developer portal (in my case an App Store profile) and adding to my computer via iPhone Configuration Utility. I didn't want to mess with the certificates and successfully avoided that.
I noticed this error message logged from Xcode in my console:
None of the valid provisioning profiles allowed the specified entitlements: application-identifier, beta-reports-active, keychain-access-groups.
After downloading a the new provisioning profile, the missing beta-reports-active = true was present and Xcode signed the build.
My Solution was Delete the only iOS Production Certificate which I'm using and create it again. Doing this, you must create a new Provisioning profile assigning the certificate just created.
then I did the process of Archive again and works!
Additionally I found that Xcode Accounts come into play -
It turned out that I did have a valid distribution certificate on my personal account (mobilology) so I deleted that account temporarily from the Accounts section (you may wish to leave only that account that you are distributing from).
Suddenly the signing / archiving process worked!
Step1:-Login to your apple developer account
Step2:-Choose Certificates
Step3:-Delete if there are more than one distribution certificates
Step4:-Then retry archiving ( if error still exist, revoke all certificates and create new distribution certificate and edit your provision profiles.)
I think its a bug from Xcode. to make it work, i need delete the actual distribution provisional profile and i had to make a new provisional distribution profile from devcenter. This works from me
I also faced the same problem, i was using development certificate instead of Adhoc. Issue is fixed after using Adhoc certificate.
Delete you ios Distribution certificate from the apple developer site and regenrate the ios Distribution with the certSignReq file. Works for me always. Your other apps wouldnt be affected . Atleast in my case it never did.
In my case I generated a new distribution profile and added it to XCode, then tried to submit the build. Turns out, all I had to do to get rid of this message is restart XCode and attempt again to submit. Worked.
In my case, I got the error message when trying to export and AdHoc build from Organizer. I did two things, either of which may have fixed the issue:
1) Exported the existing certificate it claimed I did not have from my keychain, deleted it from keychain, re-imported.
2) Created an ad-hoc distribution certificate, refreshed XCode account to obtain the new distribution provisioning profile.
After that I was able to export the exact same archive to an AdHoc build. I really think it was only that fact I was missing an ad-hoc distribution that targeted that specifc bundleID that led to XCode being confused.
Followup: The archive I had created before did not work, I had to re-generate it. A clue this was an issue was that when selecting the archive and opting to export an Ad-Hoc build, the default account selected was the wrong account for the build (the project had no default account selected when I archived the build).
This is what worked for me (Enterprise Account)
Import the developer profile from the other machine, which loaded the certificate I needed with the secret key.
Rename the app bundle to the enterprise name (it was named under the app store name).
Change the team name in the "General" tab to my company's team - it was defaulting to my personal developer account!
With these changes, I could export an ipa as both ad-hoc and enterprise, upload it to Hockey Rink, and download it on my phone
I have a company iphone dev account.
According to the doc, only the team-agent is allowed to submit a distribution cert and download the distribution provisioning profile.
Can a team only have 1 Team Agent?
Also, if that is the case, is there a way around this to allow multiple devs the option to build a distributed version of the app?
I have another developer who I would like to build and submit the app to itunes. I tried giving him the distribution cert and distribution profile. When he dragged and dropped them into xcode, and checked out windows->organize, it complains
"assigning identity matching this profile cannot be found in your keychain"
So this leads me to believe I need to get my key chain credentials on his machine. I tried exporting a private key and giving it to him, but he was unable to install it.
Is there anything else I can do?
I honestly thing its really silly if apple expects one developer to be responsible for building all apps for a company. Hopefully I'm wrong and there is a way to get multiple developers access to building a distribution of an app.
Thank you
NOTE: This process is heavily simplified in XCode 4 (although not personally tested by me) with importing and exporting of developer profiles through the Organizer window (Developer Profile section).
This is how I got it working.
1) Login to the iOS Provisioning Portal as the Agent.
2) Run through the process of making the Distribution Certificate Signing Request / Provisioning Profile: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/manage/distribution/index.action. These instructions a re super long, but pretty clear and necessary.
3) Pay extra attention to the section "Obtaining your iOS Distribution Certificate" > "Saving your Private Key and Transferring to Other Systems" on that page. It describes how to generate and save the Agent's .p12 file.
4) Now invite other developer(s) to be part of the team in the Member Center: https://developer.apple.com/membercenter/index.action#invitations
5) Back in the iOS Provisioning Portal, download the app's Distribution Certificate (Certificates > Distribution (tab)). Should be named "distribution_identity.cer"
6) Now download the Distribution Provisioning Profile (Provisioning > Distribution (tab)). Should be named "whatever_you_named_it.mobileprovision"
7) Email those two files along with the Agent's .p12 file to your other developer machine.
8) On the developer's machine, double-click the distribution_identity.cer file and it should load up in Keychain Access
9) Drag the .p12 file to Keychain and it should automatically put the identity under the certificate
10) Drag the whatever_you_named_it.mobileprovision file into XCode.
11) In each of the Project and Build's Info windows, set the Code Signing Identity to the "iPhone Distribution - Your Company" identity which should now be available.
Hope that helps. Rob
Just another tutorial step by step, but slightly different, the certificates have been already installed in the team's agent keychain, so it explains how to export the .p12 files from the keychain:
how-to-share-an-ios-distribution-certificate
You definitely should be able to build your app with a distribution certificate and profile on your coworker's machine.
Are you sure that the distribution certificate and provisioning profile are installed correctly? If you can build apps with the development certificate but not the deployment one, check to make sure that everything's properly installed in the keychain and that the correct provisioning profile is selected in the settings for the active target.
You can copy the private key in this way, but it's really UNSAFE:
Give him your login.keychain file (located in ~/Library/Keychains/), and let him open it with Keychain.app, and ask him to drag your private key to his login.keychain.
Apple also said you should keep your private key secured, if you need to reinstall your system, make sure you backup the login.keychain file.