I created the certificate and provisioning profile, but I cannot figure out how to get the app onto the device. I have an iphone connected to the computer and don't know what my next step is.
Go to xCode and choose:
Window -> Organizer
In this window you will be able to find your device.
Click your device and press "Use for development" :-)
open xcode now go Window ->Organizer copy attached device identifier(UIID) like as (3133a6e14322a59b4f4d762fa0fcc0f7efe0lb24).
Goto https://developer.apple.com/account/overview.action
Choose Device add new device(click + sign) give device name and past device identifier.
Now go to provisional profile.
Edit provisional profile for both development and distribution. check new added device.
Again go to Window -> Organizer->provisional profiles delete all and refresh it(clicking refresh button on right bottom).
New downloaded profiles appears with green dot.
Next open your project goto Build Setting->code signing identity choose your provisional for iPhone development or distribution.
Hope it works.
I've developed an application for an extern distributor. Now, they want to publish the application.
I decided to create an xcarchive of the complete app with Xcode. But I have problems with the bundle identifier. Have I to choose an identifier and the distributor creates the provisiong profile and the certificate?
Would be great if you can tell me what I have to look for!
Your Distributor needs to have a "Company" Apple Developer Account.
They invite you to their organization as a "Member"
You accept their invitation.
the next time you login to developer.apple.come you will be presented with a Team droplist (your team and their team)
Select Their team.
Now, go to the iOS provisioning Portal->Certificates. Generate a Developer Certificate. they will have to approve this, so let them know the request is coming.
Once you have a Developer Certificate they will need to make\modify a Developer Provisioning Profile, with your certificate enabled in the Profile, for the AppID in question.
Once this Profile is created you download it.
Now you have their Full Bundle ID (the GUID and the "com.customer.app")
Now you change Code Sign Identity for Release to "iPhone Developer".
You Build and Archive the app using the Developer Provisioning Profile.
In the Organizer you will see the app you just built, right-click on the app and do a "show in finder".
Zip up the .XCARCHIVE file and send it to your Distributor.
They will unzip and double-click on the .XCARCHIVE file, this will import it into their XCode's Organizer.
From Organizer they can ReSign the app for "iPhone Distribution" using the same Bundle ID that was used to compile the app.
They can distribute it as they see fit.
I'll assume that you're using xCode 4 (or above ) for this.
You're going to want to open your scheme editor (The drop down menu next to the 'Run' and 'Stop' button contains this). Select the 'Archive' scheme and make sure that it's building a release (or distribution ) copy of your app and not a debug version.
The speculative part of the question, it's probably different for each distributor, I'm assuming your distributor is already set up as an iOS Developer (ie they can distribute on the app store already) I just set the bundle identifier to something appropriate com.nameOfDistributor.nameOfApp.
In xCode 4 you don't need to worry about any provisioning profiles etc, or certificates, just archive that up and send it to the distributor. Just send them a note of what the bundle ID was, and they should be able to do all the code signing in xCode themselves if they're using xCode 4 that is.
If the distributor is unhappy with that they usually just email us back and we sort it out. But just archive the release build of the app and send it to them letting them know what you used as a bundle id (also let them know the version number if you've been incrementing that as development has progressed).
I need to add a device to my team provisioning profile, however I do not physically have the device so I can't hook it up to my computer so Xcode can't add the UDID to my devices and to the team provisioning profile. Is there a way to add it manually to the team provisioning profile, I can't figure out how to edit it. Also when I add the device in my provisioning portal it doesn't get added to my team provisioning profile automatically.
This worked for me:
Login to your iPhone provisioning portal through https://developer.apple.com
Add the UDID in devices
Go back to Xcode, open up the Organizer and select "Provisioning Profiles", ensure that "Automatic Device Provisioning" is checked on the top right pane, then click on the "Refresh" button, and magically all your devices set in the provisioning portal will be automatically added.
right click on the device, then select 'add device to provisioning profile'
For Xcode 6 it is a little different.
After adding the device UDID in the developer site (https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/device/deviceList.action), go back to Xcode.
Xcode -> Preferences -> Accounts
Select the Apple ID you added the device under and in the bottom right, click "View Details..."
Hit the refresh icon on the bottom left and then try to run the app again.
Per May 16th 2013, using XCode 4.6.2, I had to do the following to add a device (which I do not have physical access to) to the team provisioning profile:
Login to the provisioning portal through developer.apple.com
Add the UDID in Devices
Select the Team Provisioning profile in Provisioning Profiles
Click the Edit button
And under devices for that provisioning profile, click Select All, or just the devices you want included.
Click Generate
Then go back to XCode and click refresh icon (bottom right) under Organizer -> Devices -> Provisioning Profiles
Sometimes it takes a while before the certificate is updated and fetched from XCode.
Hope this helps new readers.
I faced multiple time the same issue that I add device info to portal so I can publish build to fabric testing but device is still missing due to how Xcode is not updating team provisioning profile.
So based on other answers and my own experience, the best and quickest way is to remove all Provisioning profiles manually by command line while automatic signing will download them again with updated devices.
If this can lead to some unknown issues I don't know and highly doubt, but it works for me just fine.
So just:
cd ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/
rm *
And try again...
Workaround for adding a device to an existing (automatically or manually created) provisioning profile (tested in Xcode 8.2.1):
Add the device in the developer portal.
Only when using a manually created profile: add the device to the profile.
In Xcode, go to Xcode > Preferences > "Accounts" tab > select your Apple ID (left pane) > double click on your Team Name.
Locate the existing provisioning profile. (automatically created profiles will begin with 'iOS Team Provisioning Profile' or 'XC iOS' or similar.
Right click on the profile.
Choose 'Move to Trash'.
The profile will disappear. A new profile with the same name might appear again, that is OK.
Xcode should now be aware of the newly added device.
Get the UDID from iTunes:
http://www.innerfence.com/howto/find-iphone-unique-device-identifier-udid
Once you have that:
Login to your iphone provisioning portal through developer.apple.com
Add the UDID in devices.
Add the device to the provisioning profile.
Download the profile again and enjoy.
There are two types of provisioning profiles.
development and
distribution
When app is live on app store then distribution profiles works and do not need any devices to be added.
Only development profiles need to add devices.In order to do so these are the steps-
Login to developer.apple.com member centre.
Go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles.
Get UDID of your device and add it in the devices.
Select a developer provisioning profile and edit it.
Click on check box next to the device you just added.
Generate and download the profile.
Double click on it to install it.
Connect your device and retry.
This worked for me hope it works for you.
Note that testers are no longer added via UUID in the new Apple TestFlight.
Test Flight builds now require an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile. The portal does not allow UUIDs to be added to this type of provisioning profile.
Instead, add "Internal Testers" via iTunes Connect:
Internal testers are iTunes Connect users with the Admin or Technical role. They can be added in Users and Roles.
After adding a user, be sure to click on their name and flip the "Internal Tester" switch.
Then, go to App > Prerelease > Internal Testers and invite them to the build.
Login to your iPhone provisioning portal through developer.apple.com
Add the UDID in devices
Go to Provisioning Profile sections. Click on your provisioning profile, click on Edit.
In Device section select your added device and generate provisioning certificate again.
Download it and double click. It will automatically added in your Xcode.
To check UDID present in .ipa file or not. Generate .ipa file and upload on diawi.com, get diawi link and hit on Safari browser. You can check their how many UDID are integrated in generated .ipa.
After you've added the UDID to the devices in Provisioning Portal manually, you should trick Xcode into generating a new Team Provisioning Profile (with the newly added device included). Follow these steps:
Open Organizer > Devices > Library > Provisioning Profiles. Find the existing (old) profile (that does not include the newly added device). Delete it.
Connect one of your own devices. Right-click on it in Organizer > Devices > Devices. Choose 'Add Device to Provisioning Portal'.
This will trick Xcode into generating a new Team Provisioning Profile, which automatically includes devices you've added in Provisioning Portal.
If you have recently created new provisioning profiles, you will have to disconnect your phone, close XCode. Then open XCode, refresh your accounts then build and deploy at least once to your phone.
After adding UDID in developer.apple.com, do the following steps:
1, Go to Xcode, open Preferences (cmd + ,) -> Accounts -> Click your Apple ID -> View Details
2, In the new window, click on "Refresh", then "Request"
3, Now try to run your app on the new device, if you get an error saying "unfound provisioning profile", keep reading
4, Click on your project
6, Find "Fix It" button in Identity section, click it
7, Now try to run again, it should work
Update for Xcode (Version 9.1). Please follow below steps for refreshing Provisioning profiles
Using Xcode Organizer
Select Export
Select desired distribution facility
Now Select Automatically Manage Signing Identity
In next Screen Please click on Profile tag detail discloser button which will navigate you to Provisioning profile Folder
Select all profiles and trash them. Now in Xcode click on the Previous button and click again on Automatically Manage Signing, Now Xcode will create new signing identity for you with latest features (including new device id's)
In short, you can navigate to MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ folder path and delete all profiles and then Archive. Now you can see there are new profiles for you. Cheers :)
#JasonH hope it will help you.
Now for Xcode 12.5
You need to create a new Apple Distribution Certificates
Go to Xcode Preference
Click Account, choose your Team you want to update
Click Manage Certificates
Click + Apple Distribution Certificates
Go to Keychain and delete the old certificate
This is what worked for me in XCode 7.3
Login to developer.apple.com
Add the device.
Head straight back to XCode (DO NOTHING) and create the .ipa
Install the build on the device, it will work.
I have no idea how this worked since I didn't download a new provisioning profile which included the newly added device, neither did I touch anything in XCode after adding the new device. That's Apple magic for you.
I will try to add an explanation to this if I find one.
As of Sept 2018, Apple seems to (or a bug) block the normal way to get your XS and XS Max's UDID. Even XCode could not properly register new phones for you.
After a couple hours of digging, I figure it out:
Connect your iPhone to your Mac.
Navigate to -> About This Mac.
Click on System Report and select USB.
Click on iPhone, and copy the value next to the Serial Number label.
Copy and paste the value. You then need to add a – after the 8th digit.
This is the UDID for the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max.
Source
All answers I've seen above assumed that the developer owns an iPhone. No one knows the right answer. As far as I know, you need:
a physical iPhone that you own
or UDID of someone else's iPhone.
But it is a must to have an iPhone before you publish your app. Correct me if I am wrong.
login to developer account of apple and open the provision profile that you have selected in settings and add the device . The device will automatically displayed if connected to PC.
Xcode 10.3
In finder navigate to: MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/
and delete all files there.
Then Archive and Automatically manage singing.
You are done!
I am new to iPhone development. I just registered with Apple for the iPhone Developer Program. When I try to build, I am receiving an error:
Code Sign error: a valid provisioning profile matching the application’s identifier could not be found
I'm not sure what is wrong. I tried browsing the Internet but I get confused. Can anyone help me with what I should do?
At first it seems a complex process, but it's pretty straightforward when you've been through it a few times.
In a nutshell the process is this:
(I'm assuming you've set up your iPhone/iPod touch as a test device)
Via the iPhone Developer Portal
Create an App ID
(give your application a name, this is just for reference on the website and nothing to do with your own build of your application)
enter a string to identify it, like com.yourcompany.appname
(this is important and should be the same as in your .plist file inside Xcode)
Click and Save this
Go to Provisioning
There are 2 provisioning profiles you'll need
a) development - so you can install your application on a test device (i.e. your iPhone / iPod touch)
b) distribution - if you want to sell the application via the App Store
You can create the profiles by selecting your App ID, created in the previous step, from the drop down list and clicking Save
In a few moments (usually, though it can be longer) the certificate is available for download. Download this to your Mac and drop it onto the Xcode icon. Sometimes the development profile doesn't work for me like this and I drop it directly into the Organiser window in Xcode that shows my connected device.
Besides, if you are in a team account, team admin need to edit Development Provisioning Profiles, and add modify your certificates privilege.
In Xcode inside 'Edit Project Settings' you can select the certificate you wish to code sign with. Usually for debug I sign with the development certificate. Follow the instructions on the apple site and clone the release profile and call it something like release and sign this with your distribution profile. (You won't be able to load the app onto your phone with the distribution profile selected)
Make sure you select the target device as Device and not Simulator when building for the App Store!
Hope that helps, it's from memory so apologies if I've skipped some small steps.
xcode top left corner make sure you're running as "similator" "iphone"
Did you set up an iPhone provisioning profile for either development, ad hoc distribution, or app store distribution?
If not go to the iPhone developer program portal, which is linked from the developer.apple.com/iphone. Apple has provided a great series of video tutorials.
Just make sure you install the certificates or the profile won't be selectable in the project configuration. When you download the certificates double-click on them to install.
Possibly more use for others seeing this issue on a previously configured dev environment.
This error is also shown if your provisioning profile has expired, in this case you can go through the steps in Neosionnach's answer or you can go to Organizer, click on the profile and click Refresh.
This was the winner for me when I had this issue.
As of July 2012, you can go here:
https://developer.apple.com/ios/manage/overview/index.action
Then launch the "Development Provisioning Assistant." It walks through all the steps outlined by FiddleMeRagged.
You can use this process to create a Wildcard ID, if you're just looking to test your app on your iOS device and don't need to deploy to the App Store right away.
I've got my apps running on my iphone, great, however to list on the itunes store I need the "universal binary" thing.
I've tried finding answers, but I can't seem to find a concise useable explanation to doing this in xcode. I always get errors when I try to build a binary. Can anyone point me towards a basic step-by-step procedure I can follow to creating a universal executable binary which can be uploaded on the itunes store?
One more thing, is there some type of app, like the rename project app, or applescript thing, that can do this for me with a few clicks?
Try this:
Prepare a new provisioning profile for App Store
Make sure you have Ad Hoc distribution working OK.
Go onto the Program Portal > Provisioning > Distribution
New Profile button
Distribution Method: App Store
Profile Name: MyApp App Store (or whatever)
App ID: MyApp (you have already created one right?)
Submit button
Set up the new profile/configuration in XCode
Download the certificate (you can click on the Distribution tab to reload that tab while it's being generated) and load it into XCode
In XCode, open your project and go to Project > Edit Project Settings (or double-click on the first item under Groups & Files panel)
Configurations tab, click on your existing Ad Hoc distribution configuration, that already works, and click Duplicate button. Call the new one "App Store"
Click on Build tab, then under Code Signing > Code Signing Entity in the popup choose "iPhone Distribution - MyCompanyName" under "MyApp App Store"
Build & Upload to iTunes Connect
Clean all for good luck, then set Active Configuration to "App Store", build & go. Test it on your iPhone.
Find your built app in the Finder, in your project directory > build > App Store-iphoneos > MyApp.app ... right click and "Compress MyApp.app"
Upload resulting MyApp.zip to iTunes Connect.
A Universal Binary has nothing to do with it. To distribute through the App Store, you need to create a Distribution provisioning profile. The iPhone developer portal has step-by-step directions for this. look under the "Distribution" tab.
I followed the instructions listed by sbwoodside but had problems with the last part (Build & Upload to iTunes Connect). I realized that the built version didn't run on the device. This is what worked for me:
Build & Upload to iTunes Connect
Clean all for good luck.
Go to "Edit Scheme" and in the Archive menu, select the App Store
build configuration.
Select iOS Device or a specific device in the drop down menu and go
to Product->Archive.
Once Xcode is done archiving, it will open the organizer window and
show the archives section. Select the last archive and click
"Submit".
You will be asked to enter your distribution certificate. Select
the one created for the App Store.
XCode will upload the app to iTunes Connect without the need of
using Application Loader. For this to work, the app has to be in
"Ready to Upload" status in iTunes Connect.
You won't get to test the last version with the device. Therefore it's best to make an ad hoc version before to be able to test all features and once everything is working, duplicate the ad hoc configuration for the app store.
Once you have your provisioning profiles downloaded and installed you need to make some changes within XCode to get the app to work on your iPhone and eventually to submit to the iTunes store. You'll also need to add an Entitlemests.plist object to your project. You also need to tweak your build profile and your info.plist to point to your application name.
But as Mark B already said, just got through the developer portal and follow those instructions. Just make sure your define the right provisioning profile for the purpose.