Error while refreshing profile in XCode preference - ios

I tried to upload my app in itunesconnect, i am doing the following steps,
i set correct bundle-id
code signing identity - iOS Developer
provisioning profile - Automatic
in Xcode preference, while clicking on the iOS distribution under + button, i got the following error.
"Your account already has a valid iOS Distribution certificate"
"If you have your signing identity on another Mac, you can import a developer profile. You can also revoke the current certificate and request one again."

Try the following:
Download all your certificates and profiles from the Apple Member Center and save then somewhere you can access them.
Double klick all of them, that should bring up Keychain as well as Xcode
In Xcode, open your project's build settings and set the Code Signing Identity under Developer to your developer certificate and the corresponding certificates to Distribution.
that should be it, check Xcode's preferences for the certificates and profiles to make sure they're correct and it works.
Hope that helps :)

Apple has good and complete documentation:
Step-by-step guidance for enrolling in an Apple Developer Program and building, testing, and submitting your app.

You need to be an admin or agent to make a distributable build.

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Xcode Archive doesn't recognize my developer account

I am trying to publish my first app. So I need to archive and then verify and Upload my app.
But Xcode doesn't let me do that. After I archive the app, all the buttons are grayed out and it tells me to enroll in the Developer program BUT I am enrolled in the developer program. And I am in the last step of submitting my app.
Here's a picture.
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What do I need to do to be recognized by archiver. Or is there any other way?
Be sure you bundle id, distribution profile and certificate is right.Then add you account in xcode like deanware said
Try going to Xcode->Preferences->Accounts and adding your developer credentials to a new account. Here is an aritcle detailing this process: How to Add Account to Xcode
Also check your project settings for the team and signing distribution. Here is more information on that: Setting the Team for Signing and Distribution

Xcode 7.3: Your account already has a valid iOS Development certificate [duplicate]

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

Certificates and Provisioning Profiles for Push Notifications

I'm having trouble with the process. I have got push notifications working for Development. I have read multiple guides and questions, and for some reason - either their guides are deprecated in iOS 8 or my Xcode is bugged - I am having issues with provisioning profiles.
For the purposes of this question, I have generalized most of the terms for privacy concerns.
I'm currently greeted with the bug - Failed to code sign "App". There is a Fix Issue button, but I made sure I did not click that; I'm afraid it'll only complicate my problems.
I've followed the Parse iOS Notifications Guide and configured my app according to the guide. I've done the following:
Requested a certificateSigningRequest from Keychain Access
Created a new App ID in iTunes Connect, with a new bundle identifier. I made sure I went into my info.plist in my app to change and match the new App ID created in iTunes Connect.
Using the new App ID in iTunes Connect, I created the Production SSL Certificate.
Installed it to my KeyChain Access, and exported it to upload to Parse.
Next, I deal with the Provision profile. Once again, I went in iTunes Connect, created a new provisioning profile, made sure to link the correct bundle ID with it, and downloaded it.
Here comes the part that may have fudged up the process. In the Parse Notifications Guide, they instructed users to double click the downloaded file - in my case, it was called "AdHocDistribution.mobileprovisioning", which will install itself into Xcode.
Download the generated provisioning profile from the next screen by selecting the "Download" button.
Install the profile by double-clicking on the downloaded file.
This should open Xcode's Organizer in the Devices pane. Your new provisioning profile should appear in the Provisioning Profiles section of your Library. Make sure that the status for this profile is "Valid profile". If the profile is invalid, make sure that your developer certificate is installed in your Keychain.
Double clicking the mobileprovisioning file did not lead to any discernable feedback telling me that it was installed.
Finally, I modified the code signing fields in my project and target's build settings to match the one I downloaded.
Finally, I try running the app, and the error popped up. Please help!
Create a provisioning profile of the application using ADHOC from dev account.Download and control drag it to Xcode, Under provisioning profile in your screenshot select that.
Do the same for Target and project and you will be good to go!
P.S. also select the Team as your dev account
Please follow the following steps..
Check all your targets's Code signing Section. Like Project and Test Target.
Check the project "identifier" in all your .Plist file.
Add the account in Xcode Account section, by choose from :
XCode-> Preference - > Account -> click on +sign and add your apple developer account.
Hope it will help you.

Certificates won't show in code signing identity in build settings

I'm encountering the errors:
No matching provisioning profiles found: No provisioning profiles with a valid signing identity (i.e. certificate and private key pair) were found.
and:
CodeSign error: code signing is required for product type 'Application' in SDK 'iOS 7.0'
XCode isn't giving me any option other than "Automatic iOS Developer and Distribution" options in the 'Code Signing' area of the 'Build Settings'.
I've tried changing the bundle id to match the certificates exactly, as well as a more generic com.domain.appname ID, I've deleted and recreated the provisioning profiles - I'm really lost, it feels like it should be something really simply but I can't get my certificates to show in the settings.
I was shocked when having the same problem and reading some answers here, too complicated. But I solved this much much simpler.
Open Keychain Access. Delete iPhone Developer and iPhone Distribution certificates, although they are still valid.
Open Apple Developer Centre. Download iOS Development and iOS Distribution certificates again. Yes, I download them again as they are written as XXXX-1.cer
Drag them to Keychain Access to reimport them.
Rerun XCode. Problem solved.
The first thing I would check is that your Cert in Keychain Access is present and is married up to your private key. If it's listed but your private key isn't paired with it you've likely changed your Mac's password recently and instead of pressing "Update Keychain" you may have clicked on "New Keychain". This will require performing the CSR process again and adding that new cert from the portal to the existing prov profiles. (A screenshot here may help).
Next I would make sure that XCode's Organizer is showing your provisioning profiles as valid with a green checkmark. If they aren't valid XCode will tell you why. This could be anything from the missing private key to your cert wasn't added to the profile in the dev portal. (Another screenshot here may help).
If all of that looks good restart XCode. I've had problems with XCode not properly importing prov profiles until I give it a swift kick in the pants via restart.
What worked for me was to create a new iOS Provisioning Profile in apple portal then download and add it to the Organizer in XCode , my scenario was that I was importing the project from another user account and when Titanium was compiling the project had the iOS Provisioning Profile associated from the other user account therefore was crashing, so when I was ready to compile in the Run on iOS Device dialog I changed the Provisioning profile to the new one.
As it has been stated before, you need to see the green button (valid profile) in the Provisioning Profiles for your device .
Good luck! it took me two days to fix this!
Ren#ud

submitting app to apple

i have a question regarding submitting app to apple. I have my program written and tested on actual devices. I have a certificate and provision profile set up so i can load it unto my device. However, when i go on the apple official web site to see the steps that i need to take before submitting, it requires me to get a certificate and provisoin profile again? So what do i do? Do i delete my old provisioning profile or what do i do? Confused
You don't need to delete your Developer certificate or mobile-provisions. You do need to request and download a Distribution certificate and a distribution profile before building a submittable app.
The process is kind of confusing at first, but after some time you get used to it:
For distributing the app, you have to have a distribution certificate.
Do not delete your developing certificate. Leave it there ;)
after downbloading and installing the certificate on your Xcode (on organizer), change the signing identity from your project settings (if you have XCode 4, on the navigation menu click on your project main item, then go to build settings and change the signing identity for your project to the distribution profile).
After that you will be able to archive your application (on the product menu from your Xcode).
After archiving, you can test the build and upload it to apple from your Organizer Window...
Hope to have helped!
Best of luck...

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