I've been trying for a weekend now to install my application via ad-hoc means for beta testing and demo purposes. I can install from Xcode just fine, but when I try and take the app file and place it into iTunes, then try and synch, I keep getting the error "The application was not installed on the iPad because it is not signed".
I have gone through all the steps. We went to the provisioning portal and added all the devices. We then downloaded a distribution provisioning profile and installed that onto the development computer. We created an Entitlements.plist file, though there was no get-task-allow attribute, so I had to add in my own. I cleaned the targets, restarted Xcode, built the application under the ad-hoc profile with the Entitlements.plist set for the Code Signing Entitlements.
I take the app file that's generated and drag it into the Applications area of iTunes, hit synch, and I get the error.
I know I am doing something wrong, missing a step, but it must be a convoluted, obscure step that Apple doesn't have in their documentation. So can anyone see the problem in what I'm doing? If you could, let me know. Thanks.
Ok. Yay. Figured this out after some more hair-pulling.
Apparently, the build you follow is important. I kept testing and building to the Simulator folder, and this is wrong.
To deploy to a device, you should clean all targets and then build specifically to the device. You don't have to run it or have something plugged in, but you must build to device. The APP that is produced is different for simulator as it is for device.
Did you set the "Code Signing Entitlements" build setting in your target to "Entitlements.plist"?
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I know there are other questions asked like this here but I've followed all their solutions yet still end up with this error message.
I have a valid Apple Developer account with program active.
I have tried using managed and unmanaged provisioning with new/fresh bundle ID's (which get recreated provisioning profiles).
I have tried this: A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found for debug mode
I have tried this: XCode :7 App installation failed :A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found
I have deleted any old versions of the app from my phone.
I have confirmed my device ID on the developer portal is the same as in Xcode (was also useful for manual provisioning profile management to confirm)
I even tried another developer ID I have out of sheer desperation and yet the same error appears.
I even get this error when building for release scheme with my valid distribution certificate.
I've spent a ton of time trying to figure this out now I'm hoping someone else has felt my pain and actually solved this.
UPDATE: Adding screenshots for usefulness
UPDATE 2: I gave up trying to solve this problem, I created a new project and copied source files into the new project and I now have it working. Clearly something in the project configuration/settings files got corrupted somehow in the previous project which no obvious fix available. Will leave this question open, perhaps someone has a solution eventually. I have my old 'non-working' project so will continue to try those just for curiousities sake.
Before this error message, Build Succeeded is shown.
ATTENTION!
Who should read
If you were developing with a "Personal Team" and is switching to a paid team, then you'll get this error if you have not updated your other targets as well.
The cause
Since I'm using react-native, I happen to have a target for test (i.e. a target called appTests), and switching the team just in one target wasn't sufficient, and leads to this error. This error isn't informative enough to let you know there's an error in one of the targets, therefore leading to a long debugging time for myself.
Solution
1) On Xcode 9, go to every targets and update the team!
2) Unfortunately, the next steps aren't very reliable from my experience, you might have to do your best to clean the caches.
3) Stop every single running scheme/application by using the stop button
4) Go to Product -> Clean and cleans every schemes you use.
5) Quit and Restart Xcode
6) Run again and hopefully it works! If not, it's likely some cache are still present.
You can't install a build that was signed with the app store distribution provisioning profile and certificate (I'm assuming your release scheme is set to use your app store cert and profile). It will fail to install on the device if you try. You need to use either a development profile, or an enterprise distribution profile to install on test devices. The iOS Distribution certificate can only be used to build an app that will be installed via the App Store.
Thats a conflict of Xcode. The way I solved it is by deleting the derived data of Xcode.
Xcode > Preferences > Locations
You will see an arrow right from the path of the DerivedData which will open them in finder. Just erase everything in the folder.
Update: According to Chandler's comment check if there is a need to delete the test target.
I solved it by changing the build system to legacy in Xcode 10
File > Workspace Settings > Set Build system to "Legacy Build System"
It works when I also add the correct signing for myProjectTests. This was the last thing I did after trying all sort of solutions for 5 hours.
I followed many proposals but it didn't work until I unchecked Automatic signing for the TESTS
Clearing the DEVELOPMENT_TEAM and DevelopmentTeam entries in the xcodeproj/project.pbxproj file worked for me.
I'm on 8.2.1 and just had this same error. Deleting the original project folder and recreating it worked seamlessly. I verified that all of the signing and provisioning certificates were exactly the same as the last project. I'm not sure where the issue lies, but I believe your assumption of corrupted files is accurate.
In my case it was a conflict with the development team.
I've solved by opening my xcodeproj/project.pbxproj and emptying the following variables:
DevelopmentTeam
DEVELOPMENT_TEAM
We had a similar issue: we deleted the Unit Tests and it worked.
In my case, it was the problem when I setup my time manually two month earlier on my iPhone. But when I changed to set time automatically, it worked fine.
Setting -> General -> Date & Time -> set time automatically
GOTO: Targets->yourProjectNameTest and verify that team is the same as on yourProjectName
I had this problem too, and for me the solution was to sign in to https://developer.apple.com. There was a red bar, going like "our TOS have changed, you have to accept them again", I did, and then my provisioning profiles worked again immediately.
An easier fix is to uncheck the test target as part of the Analyze & Run steps in Edit Scheme > Build -> Build.
This is very specific to React Native projects, since this is how the projects are configured by default.
In my case it worked for me to follow the instructions in this article. Then disable Automatically manage signing inside xcode in the general tab.
Automatically manage signing disabled
And finally provide manually Provisioning Profile for Signing (Debug) and Signing (Release)
Note: The Provisioning Profile you must generate it from Apple Developer Program website, in the section Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles -> Provisioning Profiles
I hope you find it useful. regards
Step to be followed
must have a developer account - https://developer.apple.com
create a certificate for development
Add devices with UDID
add provisioning profile in development
sign in Xcode with your account
clean build
Build with any destination choose device I have done for iphone 6
the archive will be disabled first, the archive will be active by choosing
generic ios device from the right corner of Xcode for example ->
yourAppName>generic ios device
once archive is done build for development not ADHOC
done
I fixed it by setting in main Target / Build Settings / Section Signing
Code signing Identity: Debug and Release set to IOS Developer
Code Signing Style: Automatic
Provision Profile: all automatic.
I set this exactly same for Test Target.
Then i was able to run release version on my phone. Btw i dont know what is the difference between IOS Developer and iOS Distriobution though.
I had edited my app scheme Build Configuration from Debug to Release, and unchecked the Debug Executable.
I am not sure why, but if it makes a difference my signing details for Debug and Release were different. So after I reset those back to Debug and checked back the Debug Executable box, and all was fine again.
Edit: found out it was because I was trying to run release mode on my phone via App Store provisioning profile and App Store profile doesn't allow this. I switched to Ad Hoc and there is no more issues.
I guess you already tried this, but I just got the same error, and a quick restart of Xcode worked for me.
Just upgrade to Xcode 8.1. It solves the problem.
I have an app in testflight for ios called MapItTrackIt. Everything has been working great.
I just updated to xcode 5.1. I built the app exactly the same way I always have. Same profile and ad-hoc cert.
This time when I try to upload my IPA file I get the 'Invalid Profile: developer build entitlements must have get-task-allow set to true.' error.
I didn't change anything at all with provisioning or what not. I just added some more functionality to the app and rev'ed the version.
What the heck do I do now? How do I fix this? My boss wants this deployed right now and I can't.
Same exact issue for about 4 hours today - restarting Xcode seems to be the fix as depressing as that is.
I had this and solved it.
Xcode was using a different provisioning profile from the one I had expected it to - it was signing the build with a distribution certificate, but had created a development provisioning profile.
It turned out that the distribution certificate was somehow invalid. I discovered this by setting the provisioning profile explicitly in the project, which then prompted xcode to give me an error to tell me there were problems.
A good place to start solving these issues is to look in the build log, at the codesign step - there will be a line line:
Using code signing identity "iPhone Distribution: XXXXXX" and provisioning profile "YYYYYY" (<..guid...>)
Check this line says the certificate and profile you expect, and that the signing identity and profile are both distribution ones.
For me the problem was that I had a custom .framework bundled with the app that was not code signed. Apparently this unsigned framework caused the problem.
When I code signed the framework with a distribution certificate the app uploaded without problems.
I fixed this bug by changing my Code Signing Identity - Release part to Distribution certificate
It looks like there are several different issues that can cause this. Mine was similar to JosephH's, but not the same.
For me there was another provisioning profile that was valid, but from a different user. I have several apple accounts that I am a member of for development.
My build was using a different profile from another user account when it went to sign. This was even though I had told it which one to use in the settings.
I solved this by having to delete that other provisioning profile whenever I wanted to build this app for testflight. The provisioning profile would always come back if I did an update from the dev site for that other user account.
The final solution was that I happened to get a new mac for development and didn't install that other user account's profiles into this mac yet. Now everything builds fine without doing anything.
I tried many different ways. None of them works for me.
I thought maybe it's a problem of testflight.
So I used crashlytics to distribute my adhoc build. I had no problems to upload it.
Then I tried to use Organizer to validate this archive to get more information, I got an
error. I was told this archive contains unsupported i386 and x86_64 architectures.It turned out that I used a framework which contains i386 and x86_64 architectures. Then I recreated a new framework which contains device only architectures. It works like a charm.
Same exact issue here with the new Xcode 6.3 beta, solved by deleting the Project.entitlements (along with the Code Signing Entitlements entry on the Build Settings of the target)
Solved. I was trying to update a label in the launch screen to show app name, version and build through a custom ViewController. This proved impossible to too complex so I deleted the View Controller. BUT I left the outlets in the Launch Screen Storyboard. I deleted these (Last icon in Utilities tab, a right arrow in circle) and all is love, peace and joy.
I've run in release mode my app on a iPhone with Xcode 4.
Everything worked great until when I switch to the simulator and I switched back to the iPhone. After switching back, the app is launched on the iPhone, but the home screen is displayed immediately after and in Xcode I get:
failed to get the task for process
I've tried to remove/add Entitlements file, delete app and restart Xcode but nothing to do.
I am betting that your release mode includes compiling with your distribution certificate, which disallows this behavior (you wouldn't want some random fool hooking into your app after downloading it from the app store). Compile with the development certificate instead. You can change this in the building settings under code signing.
Change the profile for code signing. Select your project, go to Build Settings > Code Signing Identity. Switch to other developer profile.
I had this error while running from Xcode
Edit Scheme
Choose Run
Uncheck “Debug executable”
Clean Derived Data: ⌘ Cmd + ↑ Shift + K
Run the app again: ⌘ Cmd + R
If anyone is having this issue but is sure they have their certificates and code signing correctly set up, check the capabilities tab when you click on the project (i.e. next to build settings tab, build phases tab, etc).
In my case there were broken links for Game Center and In-App Purchases that needed fixing (by clicking the "fix me" buttons) to solve this issue.
I had a the same issue and after reading the above answers all I had to do was go to Build Settings > Code Signing > Provisioning Profile > None and was able to ran the app on my devices again. Hope this helps someone else out
To anyone who comes across this:
After reading this, I attempted to solve the problem by setting the Debug signing to my Development certificate only to find that deployment was still failing.
Turns out my target was Release and therefore still signing with the distribution certificate - either go back to Debug target or change the release signing to Development temporarily.
If you've set the correct code signing certificate under Build Settings->Code Signing, then make sure you are also using the correct provisioning profile for Debug/Release mode as well.
I was having this issue because I was using an Ad-Hoc provisioning profile for both Debug/Release modes, which doesn't allow for a development profile to be used when doing a debug build.
I switched back to "Automatic" on the build settings provisioning profile for "Debug" and left the release certificate profile unchanged, mine worked. Tried the other answers. nothing worked. Didn't want to have to reconfigure my certificates. Automatic on the provisioning profile did the trick
Just get the same problem by installing my app on iPhone 5S with Distribution Profile
-> my solution was to activate Capabilities wich are set in Distribution Profile(in my case "Keychain Sharing","In-App Purchase" and "Game Center")
Hope this helps someone...
Just had the same problem - app was being installed OK, but won't run from Xcode with the "process launch failed: failed to get the task for process".
Turns out my development certificate expired during the night. Regenerating the certificate and the provisioning profiles solved the problem.
Having the developer code signing id is correct for sure, but also make sure you device is added to the Member Center via organizer, or through the developer portal.
A few days ago I reset my device list, and today I was suddenly getting this for an iPod I debug with all the time. About 15 mins later I realized the problem.
I had this problem after I created a new developer certificate.
The following was already correct:
The old private key was deleted from the keychain, all profiles where up to date, the build configuration and signing settings were correct. Yet I had this problem.
Solution:
I had to restart Xcode (5.1.1), because it was not aware of my new developer certificate. I also deleted the obsolete profiles from my devices just to be sure and to clean up.
I had this issue when trying to debug an App on a device I hadn't used before. Developer profile was correctly set. The device was part of our teams account but wasn't included in my profile.
Simply had to open Organizer -> Select the Device -> Add to Member Center
I had this same problem, however in a little bit different situation. One day my application launches fine (using developer provision), then I do some minor editing to my Entitlements file, and after that it stops working. The application installed fine on my device, however every time I tried to launch it, it exited instantly (after the opening animation). (As I made edits to other files too, I did not suspect the following problem)
The problem was in the Entitlements file format, seems so that the following declarations are not the same:
Correct:
<key>get-task-allow</key>
<true/>
Incorrect:
<key>get-task-allow</key>
<true />
Altough it's an XML format, do not use spaces in the tag or the Xcode will not be able to connect to the process.
I was using developer provisioning profile all along.
Edit: Also make sure the line ending in your Entitlements file are \n (LF) instead of \r\n (CRLF). If you edit the entitlements file on Windows using CRLF line endings may cause your application to fail to launch.
I have the following error when I try to run a new project on my ipod:
Error launching remote program: failed to get the task for process 312.
The program being debugged is not being run.
I've read about Entitlements.plist, and I've tried to add the get-task-allow, but then it doesn't let me compile because of a code signing error. I only have a development provisioning profile, so it's not the same as the people who were trying to debug the distribution build (I'm also in the debug build, so that isn't a problem).
Old projects build and run fine on the ipod, just new projects.
I've tried restarting both xcode and my ipod, but it doesn't help.
I have no more ideas on how to build/run new projects on xcode, so any help is much appreciated!
Oh, and I'm using an iPod 3G with iOS 4.0.1. Xcode is 3.2.3 (64-bit).
It turns out that using a different provisioning profile (one with a wildcard rather than one without) solved this issue.
The key point is to use a Developer profile rather than a Distribution profile.
Check that you're doing signing using a development provisioning profile, not a distribution one.
This error happens when you have set Distribution Provisioning profile in code signing. Change it to Developer Provisioning Profile, then it will work. Worked for me for Xcode SDK 4.5.
There is also a case that your error would happen.
If an app with same Bundle Identifier is launched at background ( probably an App Store version ), Xcode debugger will not know which App it should attach to. To solve it, remove/uninstall the App Store version, and click Run in Xcode again.
The same story can apply if you once build the app with a bundle id then you changed the project bundle id and still kept both app versions. make sure you remove the old one.
If your certificates are not quite right or have become not quite right, this problem can start to happen and you can go round and round playing with provision and entitlement files to no effect. (In nearly all cases, you don't need an entitlement file.)
I'm talking here about debugging on a tethered device in "debug" mode, not any sort of "release" mode.
Here's how I finally determined this was the problem and fixed it:
1) Try to create the simplest Xcode project possible and in Target...General set it up for your "Team". (If you find this impossible to do, that already is a sign of this sort of problem.)
2) Tether your device and try to run on it. Normally, this would go smoothly, but if the opening screen appears on your device for a second or two and then the app crashes and Xcode says it can not attach to some positive task id, then you may have the sort of problem I had.
3) So I then went to another Mac with Xcode and did the same thing, letting Xcode 5 automatically get the needed credentials. (I'm using a "wild card" * app id for all of this.) In my case, much to my surprise the simple app I created on the new Mac ran on the tethered device just fine keeping up its opening screen indefinitely. What a relief. So I then went to keychain access on the new machine, exported all of the relevant keys into one file and then exported the relevant certificated to a .p12 file. I also made a copy of the new working project to take back to the first Mac.
4) Back at the first Mac using the app for the second Mac, it had trouble with the Team ID when I looked at the Target...General screen. Your symptoms might be different, but the point is I couldn't rebuild the app from the second Mac on the first Mac.
5) So I then opened up Keychain Access (possibly not necessary) and double-clicked on the files I brought over, first the one with the keys and then the one with the certificate, providing the p12 password when requested. (Some of this may not actually be necessary, but I'm not sure which and I am describing what worked for me.)
6) I did step 4 again and this time it worked fine! I then found that the other programs that were giving me the "failed to get task" problem now worked fine, too. I just wish I could get back all the time I lost before I tried the process described here.
Conclusion, something was wrong or had become wrong with the certificates or the keys on the first Mac. It was subtle enough that I could still do builds, make ad hoc releases, etc. but I could not run on a tethered device. Though I don't think it is a factor, I was using a corporate developer account and this Mac was set up to do development for several other developer accounts (and these did not display the problem).
After Xcode 5.0 tried and failed (it hung) to update certificates, ... which it suggested me to do. All I did then:
Restart Xcode 5.0
Open Window > Organizer
Select Devices at the top
Select my device (which had a green bullet)
Click the (+) Add to Member Center at the bottom and follow the few simple steps
Go to the Apple Developer Center and make sure that your developer certificate has not expired. Mine had expired so I renewed it and then went back into Xcode (5.1.1) and under accounts preferences I viewed the details of my apple account and hit the little refresh button at the bottom. My iOS development signing identity showed up and I was back in business.
Removing distribution profiles from device in Organizer solved this issue for me
1.Run the Application using development certificates in both debug and release area in code signing identity.
or
2.Use the development certificate in debug area and distribution certificate in release area.
I've done this a few times before with my own apps.
I've started working for a client and using there account I've created the necessary files on the dev portal. Downloaded and install them on my machine.
Followed the instructions to create an archived IPA for adhoc distribution.
Drag it into iTunes.
Then drag it to my device in iTunes. When i start dragging the app icon a red badge appears, but the app never starts to sync onto the phone.
I opened the ipa and looked at the mobile provisioning file and I see that my phones UDID is
included there.
Can anybody give me some insight into what the problem may be?
I had this happen when I could see myself in the provisioning profile under its code-signing identity but I was not on the distribution profile. And the issue relied on the build settings.
Go to your project -> Build Settings and check under Code Signing. Confirm that you are using the correct developer profile. Pay extra attention to mismatches between bundle identifiers.
Check the validity of the distribution profile in the same area.
Archive and make sure you are using the correct build configuration. When creating the ipa file confirm for the correct distribution profile again.
Hope that helps
There can be many reasons for that. one thing that cross my mind:
Check if their device iOS version is not higher then the SDK you are using or lower then your deployment target.
I can also recommend to use Testflight service (search Test Flight iOS in google), it is perfect for distributing builds to customers.