After Provisioning profiles are made, code signing not found - ios

Here are the steps I have taken to get where I am now:
Created two certificates in the developer center for APNs development and production (both tied to the App ID I am using with push notifications enabled)
Downloaded and installed the certificates into Keychain Access.
Created provisioning profiles in developer center for production and development (both pointing to the appropriate App ID)
In XCode, under Preferences > Accounts > View Details - I refresh and get the provisioning profiles. It lists two signing identities (development and distribution but not sure if these are correct).
Under Build Settings I have the appropriate provisioning profile selected but...
There are NO code signing identities available, except "iPhone Developer"
So my question is, how can I get the right code signing identities listed here so I may publish my app? The app currently working fine in the app store, but I want to switch from a Phonegap build (what I currently have published) to an Xcode build.
Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED! Thanks!

It sounds like you are doing everything correct until you hit step 5. Since provisioning profile are under signing identities, my guess is that since you choose the provisioning profile first it's messing something up.
Try resetting your Provisioning Profile to "None". Then select your Code Signing Identity.

Under Target -> General Are you selecting the correct "Team"? Without the correct team, your code signing will not be found.
Please make sure that the Code Signing Identifier under the Build settings for both the Project and Target MUST be the same.
If still can not work, then I think you can clean up the project, close down your XCode project and then reopen. Sometimes it solves the problem this way.

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Xcode 8 shows error that provisioning profile doesn't include signing certificate

Xcode 8 shows error that provisioning profile doesn't include signing certificate.
This issue is with Xcode-8 only with Xcode 7, same provisioning profile showing related identified certificate.
There are many ways to fix this, like enabling automatic signing etc. But if you want to understand the reason for this error you need to look at the error message.
It says that the provisioning profile you have selected in the "General tab", does not contain the signing certificate you selected in the "Build settings" -> "Code Signing Identity".
Usually this happens if a distribution certificate has been selected for the debug identity under "Build settings" -> "Code Signing Identity".
If this happens under "Signing (Debug)" it might also be that the "Signing Identity" -> "iOS Development" is not included in the provisioning profile.
Check your keychain for identities that are missing a private key. I had multiple distribution certificates installed for the same team, one of which was missing the private key. Xcode was only checking the first matching identity in the keychain and automatically using this as opposed to the one that did include the private key.
Removing the matching identity that didn't have a private key made Xcode detect the correct identity again.
To fix this,
I just enable the "Automatic manage signing" at project settings general tab, Before enabling that i was afraid that it may have some side effects but once i enable that works for me.
For those who should keep using not auotamatic for some reason
Open keyChain Access to see whether there are two same Certifications ,If there's two or more,Just Delete to one and it will work :)
I experienced this issue after recently updating Xcode to version 9.3
The issue was in code signing (under debug) certificate was set to distribution certificate instead of development certificate so this prevented me from installing the app on my devices.
Here is what I did to solve this issue.
Project -> Targets -> Select your app -> Build Settings -> Code Signing Identity -> Debug -> Double tap "iPhone Distribution" and change it to "iPhone Developer".
I unchecked and then checked the "Automatically manage signing" option. That fixed it for me.
For what it's worth automatic signing failed every time until I just manually deleted local profiles in:
~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles
After that automatic signing worked perfectly and it got the right profiles from Apple's servers.
This was affecting only some builds, notably the ones for which I had manually created profiles for watch app.
If you use manual signing (which I would definitely encourage), this error may occur because Xcode thinks that it should sign a release build with a developer certificate, which is obviously not included in a release provisioning profile.
There is a build setting that defines which certificate should be used for which build configuration. To change it, go to build settings and search for Code Signing Identity. When expanded, there should be separate rows for each build configuration (usually Debug and Release) with in the second column its selected identity (usually iOS Developer or iOS Distribution). Make sure that it's set to the correct identity for each build configuration.
In some cases, the build configurations can also be expanded. Make sure that also its subitems are set to the correct identities.
Had the same error.
Profiles seems renewed, new certificates added, i even checked it when download. Also revoked former developer's certificates, excluded from provision profile.
But Xcode still asking me about previous certificates with error:
No certificate for team 'MY_TEAM' matching 'iPhone Developer: FORMER_DEVELOPER' found
so, what I did to fix it:
Go Build Settings -> Signing -> Code Signing Identity
Find all 'FORMER_DEVELOPER' certificates and choose needed.
Hope it will help somebody.
For those who still struggle with this problem in Xcode8. For me was a duplicate Certificate problem, this is how I solved it:
I read the answer of Nick and then I began my investigation. I checked all the keys and Certificates in my particular case (inside ~/Library/Keychains/System.keychain).
When I opened the file, I found that I had two iPhone Distribution Certificates (that was the certificate that Xcode was requesting me), one with the iOS Distribution private key that I have been using since the beginning, and another iPhone Distribution Certificate which its private Key had a name (iOS Distribution:NAME) that wasn´t familiar for me. I deleted this last certificate, started Xcode again and the problem was gone. xCode wasn´t able to resolve that conflict and that´s why it was giving signing certificate error all the time.
Check your keychains, maybe you have a duplicate certificate.
You may also solve code signing issues with great Fastlane toolkit. Authors put a lot of effort to effectively automate building, signing iOS apps (and more).
So in the mentioned suite, there is tool sigh which magically resolves any signing issues, hence the name :) Nice thing here is, that this tool encapsulates a knowledge about common signing issues and can detect and resolve most of them.
Fastlane is installed as Ruby gem:
gem install fastlane
And then simply invoked:
fastlane sigh --development
Answer two questions, and voila:
[11:56:55]: No existing profiles found, that match the certificates you have installed locally! Creating a new provisioning profile for you
[11:57:01]: Creating new provisioning profile for 'com.myapp' with name 'com.myapp Development'
[11:57:06]: Downloading provisioning profile...
[11:57:09]: Successfully downloaded provisioning profile...
[11:57:09]: Installing provisioning profile...
Finally, go to Build Settings -> Signing, and switch to newly created provisioning profile, whose name you just saw in the command output.
This example is for development code signing problem (running on the device). Check sigh documentation for all other options.
In my case, in keychain i had two certificates with same name, i removed one of the certificate which is duplicate then it solved the problem.
I had remaining private keys from certificates I had revoked, certificates were gone but not the private keys. Deleting them solved the problem.
To find them:
Open Keychain access
Click "Keys" under category on the side left menu
Look for iOS Developer: ..." keys that do not have a certificate tied to them
I deleted them and problem went away
The highlighted key in the picture is a sample private key without a certificate.
"Enable automatic signing" and then selecting a team from the drop-down menu helped me with this exact problem.
Because I haven't seen this specific answer:
My issue was I needed manual signing. So my mistake was that In Build Settings -> Code Signing -> Code Signing Identity
I had my debug (Automatic signing style, and Apple Development Certificate), Staging and Release (Manual and Apple Distribution (adHoc) variants set correctly.
What I DIDNT have set correctly (due to some flawed logic in my understanding) was the "ANY IOS SDK" value. Once I set it to the same manual Apple Distribution cert, the error went away.
Initially i had it set to an Automatic value "iOS Distribution" because I figured it would better handled automatically since I didnt know what it meant. still dont. oh well hope it helps
Delete the developer certificate that does not have a private key.
Delete the provisioning profile from your machine using go to folder (~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles)
Then first check then uncheck the Automatically manage signing option in the project settings with selecting team.
Sing in Apple developer account and edit the provisioning profile selecting all available developer certificates then download and add to XCODE.
Select the provisioning profile and code signing identity in project build settings
Xcode 11
This is the error I got
Provisioning profile "XXX" doesn't include signing certificate "Apple Development: XXX (XXX)".```
Now Xcode 11 automatically created a certificate "Apple Development: XXX" which is valid for all platforms
You just need to
Go to https://developer.apple.com
Go to your provisioning profile
Check if this certificate is selected
The issue seems to start happening in Xcode 11.
Go to Apple Developer
Find the right provision profile
Press Edit in the right upper corner
Choose the (Distribution) option in Certificates. (I think it's a new option/certificate type that apple introduced though I couldn't find any documentation)
Optional: Delete all you provision profiles in (~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/)
go to Xcode ->Preferences->Accounts->Download Manual Profiles
I have the same problem.
I changed the mac. And when I downloaded the Xcode certificate, I received an error message: "The error is that the security profile does not include the certificate signature."
1) Go to https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/profile/limited/edit
Select the project => edit => Certificates => Select All => Create => Download
2) In Xcode: Project file => Signing (Debug) => Provisioning profile => Import profile => Select file with 1
For me, None of the above solutions worked. I was migrating from two older mac's to a new mac, trying to get release/debug profiles working on Xcode WITHOUT Xcode auto managing them.
The solution for me was that when I went and created the two new Certificates, i ALSO had to go into my provisioning profiles, and add (under both the distribution and dev) the new certificates to the provisioning profiles so recognized them. After doing this & downloading, xcode removed all errors and it is good to go.
Hope this helps someone!
I got one of these emails from Apple:
Dear John Doe,
The following certificate has either been revoked by a member of your
development team or has expired:
Certificate: iOS Development
Team Name: Honey Team, LLC
This does not affect apps that you've submitted to the App Store or
your ability to update your apps. If you're using provisioning
profiles that contain this certificate, they must be recreated before
they can be reused. For details, see the "App signing overview"
section of Xcode Help.
Best regards,
Apple Developer Program Support
I created a new certificate which revoked the previous certificate (locally and on any other developer's mac). For it to work I must download the new provision profiles.
The solution is to:
login into Apple developer account
remove/revoke the previous certificates created in my name.
add the new certificate to the provision profile. You can identify the newer one by their expiry date
download them again from Xcode. Xcode >> Account >> Download All Profiles
restart Xcode
I personally didn't have such access. This access was only available to our team's admin, hence I don't have screenshots nor certain if these steps are 100% correct.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet but if you are still having issues after recreating your provisioning profiles, deleting the existing ones you have in your Provision Profiles folder, checking for dupes in your Keychain, etc (all other answers ITT), open your Target > Build Settings > Code Signing and make sure everything looks consistent in there. For example, I had changed the Code Signing Identify for Debug to a Distribution identity, which obviously wouldn't work as the Development Provisioning Profile doesn't have the Distribution certificate and was causing the error in the first place.
If your trying to upload your app to iTunes Connect (your Provisioning Profiles are set to Distribution), Go to Project Settings -> Build Settings -> Code Signing. Make sure to set all of Debug and Release Options to your Distribution Provisioning Provisioning Profile.
This might help you
iOS Distribution profile
Scenario:
Another developer gave me a certificate.
I installed this simply
Error :
Xcode 8 shows error that provisioning profile doesn't include signing certificate
Which was not exactly correct error.
The error was the private key missing
Preference -> Accounts -> Double click team
Call the developer to send the private key.
and installed it into your locally
SECOND SOLUTION
Create a fresh certificate.
Edit your existing provisioning profile
Include fresh certificate
Save and download
It means you need to do either 1 of the below:
You should have created a certificate at the Developer Center and then included that Certificate within the Provisioning Profile which you will Import into XCode.
Else, If you are using a certificate created by someone else, then get them to share/export their certificate & private key (.p12 file) to you & you need to include this into your keychain. Refer here
A solution to #2 when you are not able to get the certificate & .p12 file from the creator would be to just check the 'Automatically manage signing' option.
Here are the steps solved for me (For those who face the same problem in XCode 9.2):
Just manually deleted local profiles in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles.
Deleted and created all the certificates and provisioning profile from developers account.
Removed developers account from Xcode and re-added it.
Solved my problem! :-)
This happens because the provisioning profile can't find the file for the certificate it is linked to.
To fix:
Check which certificate is linked to your provisioning profile by
clicking edit on your provisioning profile in the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section of the Apple Developer dashboard
Download the certificate from the dashboard
Double click the file to install it in your keychain
Drag the file into Xcode to be extra sure it is linked
The error should be gone now.
Clicking but then cancelling "Enable Automatic Signing" worked for me, although the actual change it made was:
ALWAYS_EMBED_SWIFT_STANDARD_LIBRARIES = YES;
or in Xcode it's called Always Embed Swift Standard Libraries
I had the same issue and reason was penny. Wrong profile and certificate was selected in build settings. I only had did this before few days. So, you do not need to enable "automatic" inside xcode. Check profiles inside your build settings before doing it.
Try downloading the certificates/profiles directly from the member centre rather than doing it from Xcode.
It worked for me when I manually downloaded them from the member centre.

IOS: Code signing error Xcode 6.3.1 [duplicate]

I've build a new application which is going to support IOS 7. I got the new XCode 5 GM and tried to sign my apps using my fresh provisioning profile and distribution certificate, but i'm having trouble with distribution. I constantly get the following error:
"Invalid Code Signing Entitlements. The entitlements in your app
bundle signature do not match the ones that are contained in the
provisioning profile. According to the provisioning profile, the
bundle contains a key value that is not allowed:
'[XXXX.com.sample.company ]' for the key 'keychain-access-groups".
Also the same error for a key value called application-identifier.
Screenshot of the errror:
The solution lies in the new option in Xcode 5 which says provisioning profile. Just set the project target's provisioning profile to the right one and it'll work.
If you are like me and you think you tried EVERYTHING, archived your project over ten times, banged your head on the keyboard and still get this error. Please do yourself a favor and simply Restart XCode, it worked for me. Sometime Apple... I hate you.
I went through many of the steps above but what finally worked for me was refreshing my profiles in Xcode. Not sure why it was necessary since my app's distribution profile was showing up in the list already. Here are the steps:
Xcode Preferences
Accounts tab
Select your Apple ID
Hit the View Details button in the Apple ID detail panel
Hit the Refresh button in the lower left corner
In my case, i activated the same capabilities in Xcode that in Application services in developer.apple.com. Thats works for me
In my case (sorry) I switched "Team" to "None" in -> General -> Identity
In another case I needed to switch this identity from "None" to the developer account managing the identities and profiles.
Xcode sometimes messes up greatly with code signing, it seems. Or, we mere mortals simply aren't clever enough to understand what it is doing, of course. Don't give up, we're all going through some code signing torture at times!
In my case, I had to set correct Provision Profile for Release, and then had to restart Xcode. Before restarting, it had same provision profile, and didn't work. So, sometimes a restart can do miracles. Maybe this helps somebody.
If someone uses a GameCenter then check this section in your target. I worked with some old project and there were 2 errors (but everything worked fine). Disabling and enabling it back solved this problem.
Most likely this action adds Game Center entitlement to App ID and and handle it itself.
1.Go to project folder, delete *.entitlements files.
2.Then go yo in xcode project target -> build settings -> code signing entitlements - delete values
3.Clean
4.Run
Ah, this glorious error. For me whenever I see this error I check the following things:
1. Allow XCode to access your provisioning profile info all the time - If XCode keeps asking when you start it up to have access to your computer's private files so that it can get provisioning profile information with the options to allow access always, not now, or just one time - set it to ALWAYS ALLOW access
2. If you have any old entitlement files kicking around your project get rid of them and any sign of them - if you see a .entitlements file in your project delete it (or at least remove the reference to it if you aren't sure you are ready to outright delete it), then make sure the 'Code Signing Entitlements' line under the 'Code Signing' section in Build Settings is empty
3. Check your Application Services online and match them up with your Services in XCode for the app - Go to the Apple Member Center and check the App ID for your app, click on the app to see its 'Application Services' and see what you have checked, then go to XCode and check your 'Capabilities' section to make sure the two have the same list of Apple services on both
4. Make sure you assign a valid Provisioning Profile to your app before validating - double check your provisioning profile for your app in the Apple Member Center, make sure it isn't expired, has the right App ID with the correct bundle id and distribution. Download and click on the new provisioning profile to make sure XCode has it, or go to XCode > Preferences > Accounts > click on your account and 'View Details' then click the bottom corner button to Sync all the profiles to XCode. You should have the profile available to select now in the 'Code Signing' section. Once you have the correct provisioning profile then you can set the 'Code Signing Identity' lines to the correct option for that provisioning profile.
Note - if doing a distribution certificate it can help to set all the 'Code Signing Identity' lines to the identity you use for distribution including the debug lines
5. IF ALL ELSE FAILS - Clean your project and Restart XCode and some Apple magic may just work fine the next time you open your project and try to Validate
If you're building an old 3.1.5 project, Xcode 5 has some bugs which unfortunately makes Benjamin's answer impossible, as there are no Provisioning profiles to pick from. After many a late hour of tormented reading of Xcode project files I came up with this solution that worked for me:
In the Utilities pane (to the right) in Xcode 5, under project Document, change from Xcode 3.1-compatible to Xcode 3.2 compatible.
Enter your organization name.
Close project.
Open your project file, e.g. open -a TextEdit path/to/name.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Remove the two Distribution clauses (isa=XCBuildConfiguration).
Remove the two accompanying lines in buildConfiguration (one in PBXNativeTarget and one in PBXProject XCConfigurationLists)
Now you're ready to re-open, archive and submit to App store - voilà! It works again!
How I think it works
I assume this works because Apple somewhere along the line decided to drop the need for any separate distribution config, which is a good thing. When I archive, Xcode automatically code signs for distribution. That's the way it should have been implemented in the first place, it's just a shame that Apple can't make auto-migration part of the IDE; instead they force us developers to spend man-decades to make this stuff work.
I have been struggling with this problem for more than a day now, trying all kinds of solutions suggested here and elsewhere on the internet. Nothing worked...
But, I finally managed to solve the problem!
The problem I had was with an old app that I haven't touched in over 3 years, and now I was about to release a long awaited update. Since the time I released the app, Apple has been updating how the certificates and App Id works. They have introduced the concept of Team Id which seems to be recommended to use.
In particular, the Apple's "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles" site, has seen a lot of changes since then.
There I realized that the Provisioning Profile I was using for App Store Distribution were connected to the App Id ED8xxxxxxx.com.rostsolutions.* but looking at the App Id for the game I was about to submit I notice that the App Id was ATMxxxxxxx.com.rostsolutions.Swisch. So the App Id prefix did not match!
That seemed to be the root of the problem. So what I did was to create a new Provisioning Profile connected to the App Id ATMxxxxxxx.com.rostsolutions.Swisch instead. Using that Provisioning Profile I successfully submitted my app to App Store and now I just keep my fingers crossed that everything else works fine at Apple's side.
(I first tried to connect to new Provisioning profile to the wildcard Id ATMxxxxxxx.com.rostsolutions.* instead, but that didn't seem to work).
But what puzzles me is that when I look at the old App in iTunes Connects and goes to Binary Details, it says that the App Id is ED8xxxxxxx.com.rostsolutions.Swisch. So why is the "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles" page listing the App Id as ATMxxxxxxx.com.rostsolutions.Swisch?
My problem was solved by removing my Apple ID from Preferences->Accounts and then adding it back again. Then all my provisioning profile files showed up on the View Details utility panel. I was mistakenly choosing "Mac Team Provisioning Profile:*" instead of the actual distribution provisioning profile for the project thinking that it was a generic selection. Provisioning files must be specific to the project. Oh, and BTW, make sure your provisioning profile has the correct entitlements (for example, Maps). I managed to release an app with OSX Maps without the entitlement and Apple approved it -- but no Maps showed up on the production version!
In my case, I had the same problem, my solution was to change the 'Release Provisioning Profile' in the Build Settings before doing Archive. I do this twice, once for App Store distribution, and another one for Ad Hoc distribution. I also add a comment on my archives. My conclusion is that there is something broken about the "archive re-signature".
There is a very good tutorial for solving that problem on this website.
It says that this problem can occur when your Projects Bundle Identifier is different to the one you entered on the iTunes Connect Website.
I think xcode 5 uses "release" instead of "distribution" that you may created yourself.
If all above didn't work (in my case after couple of days no luck trying everything) I have only one Mac application. BE CAREFULL WITH REVOKE!
1) Revoke by hand all "Mac App Distribution" & "Mac Installer Distribution"
2) Clean relevant certificates and open-keys in Keychain (Warning: export before delete)
3) Restart Xcode
4) Go to (in Safari) developer.apple.com -> certificates etc.
5) Create CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest in Keychain->Certificate assistant
6) Create by hand on developer.apple.com both "Mac App Distribution" & "Mac Installer Distribution" with your *.certSigningRequest
7) Provisioning Profiles -> Distribution -> create/fix custom provision for AppStore (I'm specially named it as "Mac provision profile for AppStore"
8) Xcode -> Settings -> Account -> Your account -> Refresh
9) Xcode Clean -> Archive -> Validate
I have been struggling with similar problem (I was building for Ad-Hoc distribution). Only thing that has changed since last successful deploy, was adding two devices to provisioning profile.
After double- and triple- checking all build settings, I regenerated provisioning profile (without changing anything), re-downloaded and it worked fine.
So note to self: if there is no logic explanation, you can always try good old IT voodoo.
I also recommend iPhone Configuration Utility, which despite its name, is useful for checking what provisioning profiles you have on computer.
ERROR ITMS-9000: “This bundle is invalid. New apps and app updates submitted to the App Store must be built with public (GM) versions of XCode 5.1.1 or higher and iOS 7 SDK. Do not submit apps built with beta software.
If multiple developers are using the same member center account. One of them can't use a certificate created by others cause they used a certificate request created using their computers.
You need to use a certificate created by you (certificate request
created using your computer).
Alternative, told them to send you the Developer Profile. not sure of the name. to use a certificate created on another computer.
Code signing Entitlements occur because of your resource does not contain Entitlements file in resources,Just go to build setting and search code signing Entitlements delete entry for debug and release, build project again you will see there is no error. Cheers
I had the same problem, but nothing written here worked for me. However, I found a simple way that worked for me. Here's how to do it:
1) In your Project and your Target(s) build settings, choose "None" for all Provisioning profiles, and choose "Don't Code Sign" for all Code Signing Identities.
2) Now, choose your Target and go to build settings. In Code Signing Identity Release setting, choose "iOS Distribution" for "Any iOS SDK". And then, in Provisioning Profile Release setting, choose your distribution profile for "Any iOS SDK". After that your Code Signing Identity Release setting should automatically change to "iPhone Distribution".
3) Archive your build and validate. Now it should work fine. That's it!

How to become familiar with code signing issues?

Every time when i deal with code signing and provisioning profiles strange things happens. Most times i get the error "no code signing identity found" and if not then something like "no matching provisioning profiles found" and "no provisioning profiles with a valid signing identity".
Although i am quiet familiar with the theory and the things behind code signing and provisioning, there are still lots of pitfalls I everytime ran into and i don't know how to deal with. Sometimes it fails when setting up a new App, sometimes not.
There are 5*2 different ways to select code signing identity. What is the difference between them? And if i select one for debug and one for release, what is the reason for the "Any iOS SDK"?
Also, there are two places giving this dialog: Project-Settings -> Buildsettings is the first place, and also for the Target under Build Settings. Both are not in sync, so if i change the code signing at the first place, i have to change it twice in the second place. Is there a way to keep them in sync?
Which code signing identity would fit best into the various lines (debug, debug -> any ios sdk, release, release -> any ios sdk), since i can choose between developer identities and distribution identities (i could imagine, that the distribution one is for release and the developer one is for debug, but because of everything fails, i don't know.
What I did:
There a valid certificates in the Member Center deposited for each developer of our team and one for ad hoc distribution for the Team.
We also created AppIDs which reflects exactly the same setting in the Project Settings. In between we avoid using Variables and use the exactly appid also in project-settings to reduce risks on this side and to simplify things.
When switching the provisioning profile from "Automatic" to a specific Profile for this App, the code signing identities change to different values, which are also not in sync between the project settings and target build settings:
On the Target->Build Settings we get this result:
On the Project -> Build Settings we get a different result:
Which one would be more accurate?
After "Product" -> "Archive" -> "Validate" we get the following error:
It doesnt matter here if we select different Code signing identities or not. Actually, just for playing 'trail-and-error', we tried out nearly every multiple combinations of code signing identities to learn what XCode would do then.
After this error message from Archive->Validate the previous selected provisioning profile is replaced with another one named by a randomly generated string:
Who can tell me what happens here and how to solve these issues?
I've read a lot of documents regarding this topic. But most tutorials around this topic are outdated since several changes happened between XCode 4 and XCode 6. Even the apple documents offer mostly screenshots based on outdated XCode versions and also outdated versions of Member Developer Center.
Update
As Ian McDonald pointed out correctly, the last question (covered by the last 2 screenshots) is answered. After recreating the Provisioning Profile it won't be replaced by randomly generated strings, but the IPA-creation is still not working with "no code signing identities found".
What it looks like now:
you have a long question , but If you face problem with archive or publish your app there are some steps you should follow
First code signing
If you build your app with Debug , then debug must sign with iPhone developer --> general if you use many or specific one "depend of certificate you have in your key-chain "
but If you build your app with release then you should you certification iPhone distribution ---> general or specific one
Second Provisioning Profile
If you build with Debug then the provision profile Debug should match match your bundle detail and be development
release be distribution one that you create on developer apple site
I hope this help you have a look at this also please
From what I'm reading you have changed your provisioning profile in your target from "xxx.xxx" to "xxx.xxxTests" which is in fact a different bundle identifier making the error valid. You really have two courses of action:
Change your bundle identifier back to just "xxx.xxx". This is the appropriate path of least resistance.
Create a new bundle identifier in the portal as "xxx.xxxTests" as well as a new provisioning profile for "xxx.xxxTests" tied to the same certificate. With XCode closed drag the new provisioning profile onto your XCode app icon then open your project.
You shouldn't have to change your bundle identifier to conduct testing. When you go to deploy you will only have to change which provisioning profile your target is compiling with (development vs distribution).
EDIT:
I have some more tips on provisioning profiles here: How to become familiar with code signing issues?
The quick and dirty side of provisioning works like this:
When you are added to the Apple Provisioning Portal your cert is the keys to the castle. Any code you compile has to be associated with your cert or you won't be able to properly compile/export your code.
Your bundle identifier is essentially the way iOS identifies your application. Conceptually speaking if you want to install your app multiple times on the same device create multiple bundle identifiers.
Your provisioning profile ties all of the pieces together. The prov profile tells XCode that you plan on using your cert to compile your app identified by your bundle identifier. If it's a development build it will only the devices specifically assigned to the prov profile in the portal will be able to install your app.
Within XCode you need to make sure your target bundle identifier matches what bundle identifier is in the provisioning profile. Likewise make sure your code signing identity matches the cert you setup in the portal and tied to the provisioning profile. Lastly select the appropriate provisioning profile from the drop down list below the code signing identity.

Provisioning Profile ERROR while running in iPad

I am using Xcode 4.6.3.
I am getting this error messages while running the application in iPad,But first it was running correctly. Now we have renewed our license so i have changed certificate and
profile.still the same error appears
Please help me...
you need to follow this step:-
You Provisioning profile Generate with developer certificate from iTunes dev center.
remove old install App from device may be you Ipad contain old profile reference.
After connect your device to Xcode-Organizer->device->yuorIpad->Provisioning--check there old Provisioning profile is ther or not. if there then remove it.
In your target And Project check-> your Identifier is currect or not for example com.yourprofile.yourId
In Build setting you->code signing ->selection profile is correct identifier or not
Now just clean your Project. Build and run.
EDIT
Do not forget to Adding New testing Device ID into your new Generate Provisioning profile. in iTunes Dev there is Column to adding Device and also asking Device while you Generate Provisioning profile. May be you forget this step.
be sure that you are generating provisioning profile after adding device, or when you're just renewing profile.
And your provisioning profile must be linked with certificate, that you have in keychain.
(certificate+key)
All devices must be readded on demand, after renewing dev program (!)
In general, It's pretty sraightforward (just try it from the clean sheet, delete all the old stuff)
1) cert signing request
2) appid (if new app, if old just skip, optional - apns stuff)
3) certificates dev/distr (import them)
4) devices
5) provisioning profiles (import them)
in xcode choose in all positions needed profile, sometimes choosing parent option do not change profile for all fields of "Signing Identity" in xcode.
Deleting of old provisioning profiles is optional, it's not a problem when you have many of them
it's only problem when signing identities are more then one, ie: old expired and new one.
(In xcode 5 it will be easier to choose identity)
EDIT: it really seems like in build settings in code signing identity select options (some option) an old profile is chosen, and xcode gives this error.

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

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