Xcode 5 - updated provision profile, but is it using my latest? - ios

I'm familiar with the new Xcode setup of going to Preferences > Accounts > View Details... and then the 'refresh button' in order to show all provisioning profiles.
But what happens if I update an existing profile? For example I added new devices to the profile. Back in Xcode I press refresh, but there's no indication it's using the latest one. You might think it will because I did a refresh, but in the past I've pressed that refresh button and didn't really get updated (apple servers are slow to process the changes sometimes).
So I'm in a gray area. I want to release the app to a client to test, but I don't really want to go through all that 'app could not be installed on this device' stuff. It would be great if it somewhere showed - 'updated 2/5/14' .. but I don't see that.

If you want details about the provisioning profiles that you have added to Xcode, you can download the iPhone Configuration Utility and it will show you information about your profiles, such as how many devices are in them, their creation and expiration dates, and app ID. It will also let you delete profiles, so you can delete old profiles that have expired, and remove duplicates if it has two versions of a particular profile.

1.You have to check the code signing settings of your target! Is your old or you new profile there?
2.If the new prov profile is in place, and the XCode 5 does not build with it, you have to restart the XCode!

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Provisioning profile is downloaded but cannot choose

I have a provisioning profile, which allows for Push Notifications and I spent a long time working getting it right. I finally figured it all out and push notifications work! Now I am updating the same app for some reason I cannot choose the right profile. When I choose a profile to submit with, I cannot pick the right profile
But here it is when I click on accounts in Xcode!
It's INSchoolLawPushNotificationsProduction.
I have found the file and double clicked it, dragged it onto Xcode on the dock, everything. I have tried other Xcode Projects, nothing except the profiles in the first image are showing up! What do I do?
Please double check the followings
Check if your identifier are same in profile and in app.
Make sure you select the profile in settings also select the right certificate.
When you are going to upload you choose the same account which you used for the to create profiles and certificate.
Your production provisioning profile has expired (it did so on 9/15/2015). You cannot use an expired profile.
Log back into the the developer site and create a new distribution profile.
Also, you're developer profiles will expire in a couple of months - may as well create new versions of those as well.

Need Help Adding Device

What I need right now is some step-by-step guidance on setting up a new test device. Just got a new iPad Air and need to set it up to test with. I've done all the registration setup in the Apple dev console, and am told there's a way of getting XCode to automatically do the rest, but I get lost there. Or maybe there's a better way, I don't know.
I believe my next moves involve the Provisioning Profile settings in my Project Build Settings area, to better allow XCode to auto-update the new device. If I could get a hand on what to do from here, I'd appreciate it.
I've attached a screen shot of that area to show the current settings.
Here is how manual generation works. I usually goes for that one, sometimes Xcode bugs with automatic generation (creating a tons of them, especially when you use more complex setup including team working with different repos or/and Xcode server)
1/ Add device UDID on your developer console (developer.apple.com / iOS dev center)
2/ Go to provisioning profile section edit your provisioning profile (or create one if you do not have one, you might have to create a certificat first if you do not have one, but everything is well explained in that section). Select devices that you registered
3/ Download your newly (re)generated profile. Double click on it to open it with Xcode
4/ On Xcode > Preferences, find out your developer account and refresh all provisioning profiles (There is a refresh button)
5/ Go to your project settings under provisioning profiles, select your profile. (When you regenerate profil, the previous one will be displayed there only by its serial number as he disappeared from disk)

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!

Apple Account Not have any Development Teams

I have logged in Xcode settings Accounts with my Apple ID and password, but still it's showing "Not on Any Development Teams". I am using Xcode 6.2.
This is an Xcode bug that has hit a lot of people. What seems to fix it is deleting the account from Xcode prefs using the "-" button, and then adding it back. I've done that on a couple of Macs, more than once, and it has always worked-- for a while. You may need to click "view details..." and then use the reload button afterward to ensure everything is up to date.
In case anyone from Apple happens to see this, please look up rdar://19870347
Download the provisioning profiles and certificates from the Member Center and save them to somewhere you can access them. Then, double-click the profiles and certificates. This should bring up Xcode as well as Keychain. You can dismiss the windows and that should work.
In Xcode, go to build settings and check that under Development and Distribution certificates the corresponding ones are correctly filled in.

Why does XCode keep downloading old deleted profiles and duplicates of the same profile?

ingIf I refresh the profiles in XCode it:
a) Pulls down ones that no longer exist. Profiles that have been deleted from the portal and are no longer there
b) Pulls down multiple copies of the same profile. If I add a new device and then update the profiles to include that new device. Then XCode will pull down the new updated profile but also the same profile with an older date (even though the portal only shows one, the latest).
If I delete them them XCode they re-appear.
I'm having problems getting push notifications to work with an ad-hoc distrubtion and so want to ensure I am build with the latest profiles.
This behaviour of XCode is irritating at least, and possibly the source of my problems at worst.
You need to revoke the matching developer certificates in the portal and delete them from your keychain. For me, that was the only way to resolve this problem...

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