I have recently renewed my developer certificate and I’m using Xcode 7. I’m using the same developer account in four different Macs. But ever since I renewed my certificate, the next day morning my all my apps pointing that certificate is crashing and when I log into my developer account I’m finding all my profiles invalid. This happens everyday. Things I’ve tried are
Deleted the App ID and recreated it (did not work)
Removed all old profiles from the Mac and Developer account (did not work)
Deleted my iOS Development Certificate and created again (did not work)
What I’m doing these past days is Edit the profile and choose my Certificate everyday.
Any help?
I delete the same AppID Development Profiles but keep one that managed by Xcode.Then I open the Xcode and enter the "Setting" > "Accounts" > Choose the developer account that I used > "View Detail" > Signing Identities:iOS development "Reset" > "DownLoadAll". then it is OK.
Remember:if you let Xcode manage your certificates,just make sure that "one AppID, one development Profiles".
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Non matching & non expired provisioning profiles found
I've been working over this issue and came across SO threads and I have not succeeded till now.
First off all, I'm using a free developer account so I am not able to login to the developer account portal and manage certificates and profiles.
I did not face any problem till now, after that I upgraded to Xcode 7.3.1
I am able to run the app on simulator but not on a real device
i am able to create a new project and run it on a real device, this only affects projects that I had created prior to upgrade
After that:
- Checked that certificates were valid under keychain access
deleted account from Xcode > preferences > accounts > appleIds
navigated to appleIds > view details : ensured that provisioning profiles were downloaded and non expired
deleted existing provisioning profiles from provisioned profiles directory and then created them again
cleared all profiles, deleted the account, recreated the account, triggered product > profile
verified that my iOS development cert is valid and did not create in Xcode
restarted Xcode at every stage of this process, as per multiple threads
For all of the posts I've seen, I'm sure this will help someone out there.
Go to project build settings > code signing > code signing identity
check that the provisioning profile you've made is set.
after I did this, I was still receiving an error. this time for entitlements. I browsed to project > capabilities > health kit (where the issue was) and found a 'fix issue' button. This solved the second half of the problem. good luck out there
Suddenly all my provisioning profiles are in status Invalid (managed by XCode). Why?
Also I remember in XCode 4 that you always had to create your provisioning profile. Now XCode autocreates your provisioning profile for development. Is this a new feature on XCode 6?
I had the same problem today.
In the Apple Developer website, all of my company's Provisioning Profiles were marked as "Invalid (managed in Xcode)". None were out of them were date, none were using iOS Certificates which had expired, and the website gave zero suggestion that anything was actually wrong.
The solution, ridiculously, was to delete my perfectly valid iOS Certificates, and recreate them.
We write in-house apps aswell as apps for the App Store, and Apple (quietly) refuses to let you have more than 2 of these at once. So I was unable to create a third iOS Certificate which would allow me to use the "In house and Ad-hoc" option, hence the need to delete an iOS Certificate first.
Once I had pointlessly recreated the "iOS Certificate", the Provisioning Profiles came to life.
Part 2 of this farce is to go into Xcode, and delete your Provision Profiles (XCode \ Preferences \ select your iOS Certificate \ View Details, then select all of your provisioning profiles, right click and select "Move to trash".
At this point, absolutely nothing will change, and you'll think you've done something wrong.
But then, if you then quit Xcode, and go back in, then you'll see the Provisioning Profiles will have disappeared.
Now you can re-download the Provisioning Profiles from the Apple Developers website, and redownload the latest versions.
Until Xcode 7.2 comes along, and breaks something else.
(Seriously, I spend more time fighting with Xcode bugs than writing code..)
Apple introduced Xcode Managed profiles in Xcode 5 as a way to try and make the provisioning process less cumbersome and get Developers sending code to their devices without having to go through the manual upload/setup/download/install/build process. In effect, Xcode was completely automating the entire provisioning process whenever there was a code sign error detected. For developers that had already wrestled with understanding Provisioning, this new behavior was frustrating as the processes those teams put in place were unintentionally being wrecked by Xcode's best attempts to be helpful. That said, it is better today but not as transparent as it should be when it comes to affecting your Certificates, Identities, and Profiles data. If you are't familiar with what all is included in a provisioning profile or signing identity, there's some related reading you might want to skim: What are code signing identities?
Suddenly all my provisioning profiles are in status Invalid (managed by XCode). Why?
The most common reason for a profile to move to the "Invalid" state is because at least one of the profile's registered test devices has been deactivated / removed from the developer's account. By doing so, all profiles that included that device UDID are marked as invalid and require regeneration. This can be accomplished in Xcode > Preferences > Accounts, clicking 'View Details' on your Apple ID account, and then clicking the refresh button in the lower right corner of that account details screen.
Also I remember in XCode 4 that you always had to create your provisioning profile. Now XCode autocreates your provisioning profile for development. Is this a new feature on XCode 6?
As stated in the start of this answer, no. Autogenerated provisioning profiles were introduced in Xcode 5 and the workflow has been refined several times since Xcode 5.0 and modern Xcode. If you allow Xcode to assist you with Code Signing error messages, its default position is to check the validity of your development or distribution certificate (depending on what kind of code sign operation you were trying to do), check the validity of the AppId and Provisioning Profile, and revoke then reissue whichever part of the signing identity is in error.
Really it messing up on me. it destroyed my 4 hours fighting with Xcode. At last created another new provisioning file with selecting appleID as iOS Wildcard App ID (xxx.*)
When I try to use the 'Export > Save for Ad Hoc Deployment' option in Xcode I am presented with a dropdown menu where it says the following :
To Save for Ad Hoc Deployment, select a Development Team to use for provisioning:
I only have a single option so once I click 'Choose' I get the following error message:
Xcode attempted to locate or generate matching signing assets and failed to do so because of the following issues: Your account already has a valid iOS Distribution certificate
When logging into my iOS Developer account I can see I currently have 3 iOS Distribution Certificates (5 in total) and all currently valid (e.g they expire in the future).
The Mac I am using is new, plus all the mobile iOS apps were developed by external developers/teams therefore I'm not sure which certificates I can safely remove.
As the certificates would have been made on other machines I don't have access to it isn't possible for me to simply export the existing developer profiles on these other Mac's and have them installed on my Mac. I'm also unsure if i can revoke current certificates? What is the worst that can happen when revoking current certificates?
As with most error messages in Xcode regarding certificates, it is not very helpful. I would do the following:
delete all the current certificates on your developer account
create new ones on your new machine MANUALLY (not through Xcode, so use the Keychain), this will make sure that the keys that sign your certificates are in your current keychain
update your provisioning profiles with the new certificates
sync the new profiles within Xcode (Preferences -> Accounts)
update your app settings
To this day I still manually do all my certificates and provisioning and while certainly not problem free, I don't seem to have nearly the nightmares that many people do. The only part of the process that I do let Xcode handle is to sync up the profiles.
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 get the "No identities were available - administrator request" issue
I have a valid certificate, a match boundle ID, a valid provisioning profile (distribution) I have two apps, both I published 3 weeks ago to the app store with the configuration I currently have.
the only thing that changed is that I upgrade my mac to 10.9 and my xcode to 5, but left my device at IOS6
now both my apps failed to validate with the above error.
I tried the steps in many other articles like No identities were available - administrator request
or Xcode 4.3.2: "No identities were available" - Where to request a Dev Identity?
or https://discussions.apple.com/message/21603155#21603155
and others
nothing works
any idea ?
I spent two days reading forums and searching the web and finally figured out the problem. Under your IOS provisioning profiles, you have to have a profile that is listed as ditribution under type. It also needs to be listed under your account in xcode (xcode>preferences>account>view details) if it is not listed there, click the refresh button to have it check itunes connect for your certificate. I tried deleting every certificate and everything from Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles and let xcode create new certificates, but xcode says it will add distribution stuff and doesn't. Make sure to use your provisioning profile that is a distribution type for your provisioning profile under your code signing in both of the app target build setting and the app project build settings.
I had to go into Applications -> Utilities -> Keychains on my Mac and remove expired certificates. After removing those, I had to generate new certificates through the IOS Developer Site and import those into the Keychains application. After doing so, return to Xcode and in Build Settings, verify you are using the new Code Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile. (You will need both recreated, as revoking the Identity will invalidate the Provisioning Profile.)