I've successfully built a basic Watch/iPhone app and am getting the following error when trying to run on my devices:
"Error Launching 'app_name WatchKit Extension'
The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to launch because it has an invalid code signature, inadequate entitlements or its profile has not been explicitly trusted by the user."
The app does install to the watch/phone, but I want to use the extension to view console output while running the app.
I am using automatic provisioning, which is not giving any errors. I am not using Apple's paid developer program. Has anybody experienced this before? Cheers.
This setting should be set to Trust(your Apple id) in Settings -> General -> Device Management ->
I resolved this by opening the app on the Apple Watch for the first time, then selecting "Trust developer" on the prompt that appeared.
The workflow seems to be different depending on your usecase:
WatchOS app with iPhone app
Standalone WatchOS app
For usecase 1, I had to trust myself as a developer in the iPhone Settings -> General -> Device Management. Note, you need to try and run the app on your devices before the menu option is available on the iPhone.
For usecase 2, I had to trust myself as a developer at the prompt that was shown when I opened the app on the watch for the first time.
My advice would be to try to get usecase 1 working first, before trying usecase 2. Note, if you have a free developer account you will need to uninstall the usecase 1 app from the iPhone and from the watch before you can install usecase 2, as the free account only supports one app at a time.
I wasted time by starting with usecase 2 and could not get it to work for some reason. After I gave up and did usecase 1, then subsequently tried my usecase 2 app again without changing any XCode settings, it just seemed to work for some unknown reason.
I'm using XCode 11.4, iOS 13.4 and WatchOS 6.2 on iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch 2 42mm
I am having troubles using my iPad as a testing device for my Xamarin.Forms App Running in Visual-Studio-2017. I have already done the requirements to use my own app but it still doesn't show on the devices. Here are the steps I have done so far.
Created my own account on free provisioning as described on this site. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/device-provisioning/free-provisioning?tabs=macos
Opened my Xcode and created an empty app to setup the free provisioned account as described on the link above.
Fixed my the codedesign keychain access by inputting my Mac password and clicking always allow
Changed my info.plist information on signing as shown below
On bundle options, I have changed my signing identity and provisioning profile created by xcode. and changed the platform to iphone and clicked ok. See the image below.
After I clicked ok, Visual Studio says it was saved. But everytime I checked on my a debug device, it only shows simulators! Shown below:
I have tried restarting visual-studio mac numerous times but still how the same result! My devices hasn't shown at all!
I have scoured the internet and I couldn't find any concrete solution.
I was able to find the solution. Just change the Debug to Debug | iPhone as shown below... And it will show your device.
I'm building an iOS app for which I have Testflight set up, but now I'm running into an interesting issue where I can't properly launch the app from Xcode anymore since I registered my device to test the app through Testflight.
When I try to launch the app from Xcode, it will build fine and even launch it on my phone. However, there will be no output in the console, and a few seconds later the app will crash on my phone and I get the following error message popup in Xcode:
process launch failed: failed to get the task for process 484
If I delete the app from my phone before trying to launch from Xcode, the same thing will happen and the Testflight orange dot will still show up next to the app name on the home screen.
I have tried to change the app's version and build number, but that had no effect. I have not yet tried to unregister my device to test the app through Testflight because I would like to find a good way that facilitates both.
One way I have found to circumvent this problem is create a different app target and run the app with that which seems to work -- but I'm wondering if there is an actual solution to this problem or a better way to work around it.
Thanks in advance.
Turns out Max was on the right track - if I manually specify a non-distribution provisioning profile it will work properly by overriding the Testflight version of the app (the orange dot disappears). Not sure why "automatic" wasn't doing that for me. Thank you!
I have been developing an app for 1 or 2 weeks now and just yesterday I have updated my iPhone 5S to the iOS 8 GM. Everything worked fine and I could test on my device as well until I deleted the app from my phone and wanted to build again. The following error appeared:
Could not launch "My App"
process launch failed: Security
When I test with the simulator it works fine.
Is this because of the iOS 8 GM update and how can I fix this launch problem?
I want to be able to test on my iPhone and in the simulator.
If you get this, the app has installed on your device. You have to tap the icon. It will ask you if you really want to run it. Say “yes” and then Build & Run again.
As from iOS 9, it is required to go to Settings → General → Device Management → Developer App → Trust`.
On some versions of iOS, you will have to go to Settings → General → Profile instead.
Updated answer for Xcode 7: Tapping the app no longer works (as of beta 1 it just displays an "untrusted enterprise developer" message with only a Dismiss button).
To fix, open the Settings app, go to General / Profiles, and you'll see your profile. Mark it trusted and things should start working normally again.
Updated For iOS 9.2.1 and Xcode 7.2.1:
Goto: Settings > General > Device Management > Select App from Developer Apps > Trust App.
Hey so the accepted answer works, except if you need to debug the initial launch of the app. However I think that answer is more of a work around, and not an actual solution. From my understanding this message occurs when you have some weirdness in your provisioning profile / cert setup so make extra sure everything is in tip-top shape in that dept. before ramming your head against the wall repeatedly.
What worked for me was as follows from the apple docs:
Provisioning Profiles Known Issue If you have upgraded to the GM seed
from other betas you may see your apps crashing due to provisioning
profile issues.
Workaround:
Connect the device via USB to your Mac
Launch Xcode Choose Window ->Devices
Right click on the device in left column, choose "Show
Provisioning Profiles"
Click on the provisioning profile in question
Press the "-" button Continue to removing all affected profiles.
Re-install the app
Make sure you right click on the image of the device not the name of the device or you won't see the provisioning profiles option. I restored my new phone from an old backup and there was a lot of cruft hanging around, i also had 2 different dev. certs active (not sure why) but i deleted one, made a new profile got rid of all the profiles on device and it worked.
Update for iOS9.2.1 and Xcode 7.2.1
If you get this error when building to a device in Xcode:
On your device, tap the app icon that would have just been added from your attempt at building the app and you should see this:
Next, on your device, go to Settings --> General --> Device Management, and you will see this page:
Select the profile you are using with Xcode, and you should see this page:
Click Trust "username#email.com" then click Trust on the next popup.
Go back to Xcode and re-run your project and it should build the app to your device.
To get around the process launch failed: Security issue and immediately launch the app on your device, tap the app icon on your iOS device after running the app via Xcode.
This will allow you to immediately run the app. It may not actually "fix" the root issue that is causing these permission alerts.
Be sure to tap the app icon while the Xcode alert is still shown. Otherwise the app will not run. I continually forget this vital step and am unable to run the app on my device. Thus I am documenting it here for myself and everyone else :)
Run the app via Xcode. You will see the security alert below. Do not press OK.
On your iOS device, tap the newly installed app icon:
After tapping the icon, you should now see an alert asking you to "Trust" the Untrusted App Developer. After doing so the app will immediately run, unconnected to the Xcode debugger.
If you do not see this "Trust" alert, you likely pressed "OK" in Xcode too soon. Do not press "OK" on the Xcode alert until after trusting the developer.
Finally, go back and press "OK" on the Xcode alert. You will have to re-run the app to connect the running app on your iOS device to the Xcode debugger.
Go to SETTINGS -> GENERAL -> Profiles & Device Management
and choose the developer profile, then push Trust.
if you do not have Profiles & Device Management menu, you have to enroll your device on beta.apple.com and download the profile from Safari.
Install the profile
Restart your device
Tap on the developer profile and trust.
You are all set.
I have the same issue. I click ok in xcode and when launching the app on my iPhone I'm asked if I want to trust this application. Doing it, the app runs and further build-and-run from xcode went without any issue until deleting the app from the iPhone and reinstalling it. Then goto first line ;-)
Alternatively if one does not see "Untrust App Developer" dialog:
Go to your iPhone > Settings > General > Profile > "you#email.com" > Trust
In iOS 9.2 they renamed the 'Profiles' to 'Device Management'
This is how you should do it now:
Settings -> General -> Device Management
Verify the app
Ok, this seems late and I was testing the app with the Internet connection off to test my app for some functionality. As I turned off the Internet, it gave me such an error. After I turned on the Internet, I could install it again. I know this is silly but this might be helpful to someone.
I had this issue before on Xcode 7. Then I realized it's all about my Internet connection: it was down, and the security check was using the
Internet to make sure your developer account is correct. And when it saw no Internet it gave this error … after I have fixed my Internet, it works well.
Xcode is able to build and install the app, but isn't able to launch it the first time. You just need to tap on the app's icon on the phone, then you will be prompted to ask if you want to trust the developer. Allow it and the app will launch, then Xcode will be able to automatically install & launch this and your other apps.
"If you get this, the app has installed on your device. You have to tap the icon. It will ask you if you really want to run it. Say “yes” and then Build & Run again."
To add to that, this only holds true the moment you get the error, if you click OK, then tap on the app. It will do nothing. Scratched my head on that for 30 odd minutes, searching for alternative ways to address the problem.
BTW, this also happens if you change the team of your target in Xcode and rebuild. Was quite puzzled to see that problem with an app that I had run on the device before. Took me a while to figure out…
Might only happen the first time building to a device with a team, though.
We've built an MDM server using a mac mini.
We have 2 applications to push out to a number of users. One app will push and download on the remote devices with out a problem. The other displays an error "The app could not be installed at this time"
This second application is an older application.. however we are building it for 6.0. In the console we see this.
ipad SpringBoard[65] <Warning>: could not save thumbnail for downloading icon: image=(null) path='/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/DownloadingIconImageCache/
This app can be built an installed when a device is connected to the build computer. We have all of the signing the same as the first application. We can also archive the app without any errors. What would cause this app to not install, or what should we start with?
Several notes/ideas:
a) Take a look at this (they mention the same problem)
Trouble installing AD-HOC distribution through safari
iOs application crash on install
Ad-hoc distribution fail
http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/not_installing_my_application_in_ipod
b) Can you please post your manifest (if you are installing inhouse apps)?
Please double check that that if you pointing to icons in this manifest, the links are correct.
Ok this took days to figure this out... In my situation at some point another icon was added into the build settings. We did change the name of the bundle so I'm assuming that xcode automatically populates the icon information?
In the info tab check to make sure you only have one property for 'icon files' (to be clear you should have the ability to open the drop down menu and expose sub menus... What I had was 2 'icon file' sections.) After I deleted the second set of icon files it pushed fine.
Hope that helps others figure out a very frustrating situation