I am trying to test my unity game on different iOS device using Xcode 7.3.1. Previously, I connect my iPhone 6 on mac and test the game successfully with free apple account(that has limited privilege).
Now I want to test that game on different device and later want to upload to app store. So I asked my client for apple id that has role "agent". I add apple id on Xcode and try to run the project with iPhone 6 connected. I got the error message saying-
"Your account already has a valid iOS Distribution certificate"
"You have a valid iOS Distribution certificate in the Member Center, but it is not installed locally. If your signing identity is installed on another Mac, you can export a developer profile on that Mac and import it on this Mac. You can also reset your current certificate."
Then I click on reset button to reset current certificate. And try to run the project again. Again I got the error message saying-
Unable to fix signing issue.
Xcode failed to resolve the issue. Check your code signing settings; ensure you have a matching signing certificate and provisioning profile installed; and try again.
I restarted Xcode many times but got the same error. Screenshot of my account details looks like below .
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It is not enough, to login and download Developer profiles only.
You need that Certificate physically and signed in your mac as well.
Ak your client to export Signing identities and Provisioning Profiles.
This you will be able to import to you Xcode and Keychain in one step.
This process will help you handle private keys as well, as they are necessary if signing App using Developer/Distribution Certificate.
1) Your client has to export Identities and profiles:
2) He/She can send you them by e-mail:
3) You can import them all in one.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-accounts_preferences/articles/export_signing_assets.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40013306-CH8-SW1
When recreation of Certificates and Provisioning Profiles is needed:
Make sure you have appropriate privileges - you have to be team agent or admin:
1) Login to https://developer.apple.com with your developer credentials.
2) Go to Certificates, IDs & Profiles
3) Go to Certificates and remove the old one. Then Add new:
4) This is few step process, that requires you to create Certificate signing request. Just follow steps that are stated there. The last action in this step will be installing that Certificates - when ready, just click on it/them and they seamlessly get to your Keychain.
5) When finished with Certificates, open Profiles, find those marked with yellow triangle and edit them. Check the new certificate (and devices if you are creating Development profile as well). I personally prefer creating brand new profiles, as it it'll be easier to recognise older ones and new ones in Build settings later.
6) You now have to update your Xcode -> Preferences -> Accounts section and Xcode does this for you.
7) Last step - update Build settings in your projects according to your new profiles. You should be ready to validate you project now.
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.
I'm using the latest XCode (6.1) and I need to submit the app as soon as possible, but I can't seem to get around the "Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate" error.
I have the client's provisioning profile and I have his distribution certificate (which is valid) and his private key (I've checked using Keychain, it's definitely there). The bundle ID is also correct. I've deleted my provisioning profiles and certificates and reinstalled the client's many times now.
What could be causing this issue? I've seen a lot of topics here on SO with this problem, so I apologise beforehand for creating yet another clone, but I really don't know how to fix this.
edit: I'm running a brand new install of Yosemite by the way
Got it solved by editing the iOS Distribution Provision Profile in the Developer Member Center.
For some reason there were 2 certificates to choose from for the Distribution Provisioning Profile. I switched over to the other certificate and I could Validate and Submit my Archive build for beta testing.
So, you may have more than one certificate for signing your Provision profiles. Make sure you have the right one (by trying all of them) and hopefully that should work.
I tried many things like Exporting Developer profile from Xcode Accounts and importing it in the organizer, installing the provision profiles from the member center, adding them to my keychain. But none of those worked. It started working only after editing the appropriate Provisioning Profile manually.
You could also trying removing all your available Provisioning Profiles and let Xcode create new ones for you. This will work too.
I also had this issue, which turned out to be caused by an attempt to export for ad hoc deployment using a development provisioning profile instead of a distribution profile. It seems this is no longer supported in Xcode 6.1. Once I created an ad hoc profile and installed that the problem went away. A more useful error message would have saved me hours of work and would be greatly appreciated, Apple.
This thread was helpful:
xcode 6 beta 2 issue with exporting ipa "Your account already has a valid iOS distribution certificate"
Besides all the other answers, there's one more possibility after 2/15/2016: the old World Wide certificate expired and I guess everyone has already downloaded the new cert (or check this out). However, you'll be seeing this error if you haven't remove the expired one. You may need to choose View -> Show Expired Certificates to unhide expired certs. If the error is still there, try regenerate provisioning profile as advised by the others.
I was moving to new Mac when I faced this issue.
On your older Mac:
Go Preferences > Accounts > Select Account > Details.
In the dropdown right click on iOS Distribution (or whatever is the name of your distribution certificate).
Export...
Set a password for the .p12 file.
Move and install this .p12 in the new mac.
Try Again.
Another possible cause for the problem (at least in my case) was that in my Keychain Access, I had two certificates for the team I was working with. One was expired, and the other one was the one I wanted to use. Deleting the expired certificate in Keychain Access solved the issue.
I ran into this problem, and I wanted to avoid screwing up my push notifications.
The easy fix for me was to just go to developer.apple.com > project > certifications, ids, and profiles > profiles > create a new profile (for development or distribution)
Download the created profile, drag and drop the profile over the Xcode icon, and then in your project target, set the new profile as the provisioning profile.
This fixed my problem--it may provide further help in the future.
The error message could mean that you need to get the Distribution certificate and private key from the developer who created them.
This can happen if some other team member has pressed the enticing "Reset" button (which means revoke certificate and create a new one).
Here is a picture what the revoked certificate looks like:
You can export the valid certificate from the developer who created
it and import it to other team members keychains.
Go to "Keychain Access" app.
Click on the "Login" in the top left box
Click on the "Certificates" on the bottom left box
Check which team member has the valid certificate:
when clicking on the "iPhone Distribution" certificate
everyone else sees "This certificate is revoked" in red at the top.
(Maybe backup the deleted certificate to avoid doing anything irreversible)
delete the revoked certificates
Export the one valid certificate and distribute to team
Import the certificate file for everyone else
Today I was solve problem by delete from keychain old certificate Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority and install new one (exp. in 2023)
I'll add to here because while the accepted answer got me on the right track it wasn't the solution. There was a second (automatically created by Xcode) distro cert which I revoked. After doing that a new error came up. ("An App ID with Identifier '' is not available"... it also wasn't helpful) Eventually this lead me to the fact that my App Id in the member portal didn't have entitlements matching the build.
I solved this issue by editing the provisioning profile in the member center which is used in my app and re-install the provisioning profile.
I recently changed computer.
The reason for me was that I had several developer certificates in the Apple Developer member portal.
The solution was :
Go to Apple Developer Portal
Go Under Certificates -> Production
Click on "Revoke" for the oldest certificates and keep the most recent one
Revoking certificates won´t affect your Apple Store apps :).
I had this happen to me when I accidentally reset the certificate on another mac. Here's my scenario.
Mac1 - Had working certificate.
Mac2 - I accidentally reset the iOS distribution certificate
Mac1 stopped working and I get the message "Your account already has a valid distribution certificate"
The fix was
On Mac2, Keychain access -> certificates -> iOS Distribution certificate (for you/your company) -> export to p12 file (it will ask you to set a password)
Copy the exported file to Mac1
On Mac1, Keychain access -> certificates -> iOS Distribution certificate (for you/your company) -> delete (this is the old one that does not work)
On Mac1, double click the p12 file (then enter your password).
You should see a new iOS distribution certificate (for you/your company) in the certificate section of Keychain access.
This fixed the issue for me on Mac1.
Got it solved by deleting the provisioning profile which is managed by Xcode
(XC iOS Ad Hoc: *) from the member center
I 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.