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I am new in iPhone Distribution . I created Apple ID U765UXW88D.com.edwincs.*. and
provisioning profile name is MobileHealthGuide. I made these in Distribution tab.
My xcode version is 3.2.4 While uploading application with application loader , I got this error
Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate.
My project name is MobileHealthGuide too. I have tried revoking the certificate and provisioning profile, but the error persists.
How can I solve this problem?
I've encountered the same problem too. It showed that I had a duplicate certificate registration in my keychains. Removing one of them (I removed the one from my system keychain) fixed the problem.
Steps that helped me to resolve my problem:
Open KeyChain Access application
Select the 'login' keychain, and select in the bottom pane
'Certificates'
Switch to the 'system' keychain and see if there are certificates
registered in both chains.
Remove one of them
Rebuild the application
You probably need to check what code signing profile is selected in
your distribution build properties.
Alright, then make sure to clean the build & delete the Build folder from the app.
If this doesn't work for you, there is one more alternative :
Verify below steps to create distribution certificate and perform that if you miss anyone.
Generate a certificate signing request in keychain.
Using that create or revoke a DISTRIBUTION certificate in the
portal. after that download and install it and verify key under the
name.
Register the device in the provisioning portal.
Then create or modify a DISTRIBUTION profile in the portal. after
that download and install it and verify it appears to be valid in
Organiser as there are no warnings.
Make sure to select proper build setting in xcode.
Now this will definitely, solve your problem.
Make sure you added right code sign in project target.
Ok so here are detailed steps on how to distribute:
You want to request a development and distribution certificate in Keychain Access and upload it to developer.apple.com (you are part of the developer member program right?)
Create an app ID (in provisioning profiles)
Create a distribution certificate - make sure this and step 2 follow your bundle ID
Download the profile and drag to Xcode
Go to your Xcode project, in the target or project build settings set your code signing option to the Distribution certificate (which must match your Bundle ID and of course your distribution and development certificate) - there might be a recommended or automatic profile, just choose the one that matches your identity and app provisioning profile and Bundle ID
Now go to edit scheme -> then change from debug to release
Then go to project than target than build settings and type in 'Code Signing', change the options to your distribution profile
Set to build for an iOS device (or none at all)
Go to product -> Build For -> Build For Archive
Scroll down on the side (your classes tab etc.) to the product which should be named (AppName.app) and show it in finder.
Create an application on iTunes Connect
Compress the .app and load it to Application Loader
Send it off!
Tips:
Make sure you are using the correct Bundle ID
Try cleaning
Make sure you're certificate is not expired
Here is an expanded list of reasons why this may occur:
Upgrade your xCode! you are using a really old one.
Probably you tried it but go to https://developer.apple.com/ then iOS provisional portal there are lots of tools can help you.
If you are not using inApp purchase, push notification, iCloud etc. you can skip the App ID and just set a general certificate one that would be like U765UXW88D.* so that you don't need to do this process every time for new apps.
Make sure you created distribution certificate and sign with that on xCode for release/distribution.
On xCode itself make sure you defined the bundle ID same as on iTunes connect.
Good luck.
I've got a similar problem as well. In one project, using my dist profile, it works perfectly and I can build to a device.
In another project, when using the same dist profile, the app launches, loads the splash screen, processes the first page and then exits without throwing an error in Xcode or in its own log.
When I change the code signing to a generic dev profile, the app launches without a problem on the desired device.
I've redownloaded the certs, the dist profiles, deleted the old ones.
How is this even remotely possible? And how can this be fixed?
Failed signature verification can happen for many different reasons. See Apple's list of common causes in TN2250.
The most common reason for failing distribution signature validation is because the app was signed with a developer profile instead of a distribution profile, or the app was built with the wrong build configuration. To consider this potential cause check your settings against the recommendations that follow:
The Release build configuration must be assigned to your Archive task. To ensure this, select the "Scheme" pop-up menu in the upper-left corner of the Xcode Toolbar, and choose "Edit Scheme". Select the "Archive" task and make sure the Build Configuration is "Release".
To check that your app is signed with the correct distribution profile, use the steps in section How do I check which certificate was used to sign my app? and ensure the Authority is "iPhone Distribution". If it is not, continue to next bulleted items to correct the responsible configuration.
Ensure that the appropriate distribution provisioning profile that you created for this application on the iOS Portal site is assigned to the Release build configuration. To ensure that use the steps in section Assigning Provisioning Profiles to Build Configurations.
Next, ensure that you are choosing the correct distribution provisioning profile when distributing your app on the Xcode Organizer > Archives tab. To do that, use the sections linked below depending on your distribution method and take special note you're selecting the correct profile on the "Identity" field (Xcode 4-4.2) or "Code Signing Identity" field (Xcode 4.3+) after clicking Submit/Share/Validate or Distribute on the Xcode Organizer > Archives tab.
https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/technotes/tn2250/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40009933-CH1-TNTAG32
I updated my provisioning profile to include some more devices for Ad-Hoc testing,I added this new profile and removed the old and now I am getting this error:
Code Sign error: Provisioning profile 'Floors2Go' specifies the
Application Identifier 'com.reapptive.Floors2Go' which doesn't match
the current setting 'com.reapptive.Floors2Go'
Which if you look they are both exactly the same, I have removed, re-added a new profile, deleted and re-entered the bundle name in my plist and for the life of me I cant figure this out.
I have also tried cleaning all and rebuild but to no avail.
Any ideas?
Seems to be a bug in Xcode GM Seed, I had to kill Xcode and reopen it every time I change a profile.
I also had this problem while trying to replace a dev provisioning profile with an updated version. Looks like a bug.
Running XCode clean, then setting the code signing identity (for dev, in my case) to "don't code sign", then setting the code sign identity back to the relevant development provisioning profile resolved the build error.
In Xcode (I am using 4.5.2) > Build Settings > Code Signing section:
Change everything to Don't Code Sign
Change individual setting to appropriate developer/distribution profiles.
For example:
In my case, deleting a duplicate and invalid certificate in keychain fixed this problem..
It should be problem with the Application Identifier in the plist file.Check that. Did you install the new Provisioning Profile?
1- Clean (Product --> Clean)
2- Remove Prov. Profile (Window --> Organizer ) remove unused and expired prov. profile
3- Set everything to dont code sign in your project and target (press on your project under build settings under code sign set everything to dont code sign and do it again on you target)
4- Relaunch Xcode
5- Re-add prov. profile
6- Go to code sign again and set them to your prov. profile.
7- Do step 6 again for code sign in your target.
If it didnt work try to make the next step
8- Any iOS SDK under debug set it to iPhone or iPad developer under automatic profile selector.
Remove all Prov. Profile from Organizer
From Menu Select Editor -> Refresh From Developer Center
Enter your apple id and password and wait
Go to Buit Settings of App select development profile for debug and ad-Hoc profile for release
Note It is Advice to create two different profile for development and testing
For Development - > Create Development Profile -> Use
For Distribution -> Create Ad Hoc Profile
I am getting this error while I am trying to debug my app on device.
I created development provisioning profile as it is mentioned at the developer portal. My development device is selected in the profile and I am selecting the correct profile from Target's code signing identity menu. I recreated provisioning profile for several times and also removed and reinstalled it and recreated the project but I am getting that whenever I try to debug on device.
Btw, the adhoc distribution provision profile works.
I spent my whole day to find out a solution but nothing. Anyone have a solution?
It could be because your iphone is not recognized by the provisioning portal.
Solution:
In Xcode, Goto --> Build --> clean all targets.
In "Groups & Files" -->Target --> expand it --> right click your app and select Clean "your app"
Goto->Window-->Organizer
In the Devices tab on the left, select your iphone
In the Provisioning section of the selected iphone delete all the current profiles (if any)
Unplug your iPhone and replug it in.
Goto->Window-->Organizer-->right click your iPhone -->Add device to provisioning portal
Now make sure you have selected the appropriate code signing identity in edit project settings -> build --> code signing
Build and run.
In Xcode 10, I solved this by switching the project's build system from "new build system" to "legacy build system" (File -> project Settings).
I had the same problem. Everything was ok:
the device was registered in IOS Provisioning Portal; the certificate was downloaded and the Development Provisioning Profiles for my app was downloaded.
So the solution!!!
Target> Get Info
Select Configuration to Release (here's the devil)
In code signing, Code Signing Identity check iPhone Developer. Close.
On Target chose Clean Target and then Run the app.
Good Luck.
In my case this was because there where a couple of versions of the developer certificate in the keychain.
Deleting the iPhone Developer cert from both My Certificates and Certificates and then downloading the latest one from the dev centre and installing that (double click on the .cer file)
sorted my problem
Finally i could solve the problem. One of my colleagues has revoked the developer certificate at iOS Provisioning Portal for his test apps. for fixing; i removed the existing developer certificate at my keychain, requested a new certificate with the existing private key, revoked the certificate from provisioning portal and submitted the newly requested certificate.then i downloaded and installed it.
now i can debug my app on my device :)
This caught me out because someone had changed the "Run" configuration's "Build Configuration" setting to "Release" (under "Product" > "Edit Scheme.." > "Run *.app").
This is normally set to "Debug" and hence it was NOT using the developer certificate and provisioning profile that I was expecting, it was using the distribution certificates instead.
In addition to this I found that if you look in the Console Log for the device (via Organiser), there may be an error code that better indicates your problem. For example I had...
Mon Sep 5 09:39:56 unknown installd[304] <Error>: profile not valid: 0xe8008012
I then googled "0xe8008012" and got the following page which indicates a "0xE8008012 - The UUID of the device does not match any in the Provisioning Profile being loaded" error.
MobileInstallation
Xcode->Click your app -> TARGETS -> click the app-> Build Setting-> Code Signing : Make sure that both Debug and Any iOS SDK are set to iPhone Development
Xcode -> Product -> Scheme -> Edit Scheme: Make sure Build Configuration is set to Debug.
I had the same issue with Xcode 10.0 beta 5 (10L221o) and a device running iOS 12.0 (16A5345f) - that's also beta.
After installing the app alert titled "App installation failed" showed up, "A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found.".
I got rid of it by going to: ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles and finding the certificate Xcode was trying to use. Then in the "Devices and Simulators" window in Xcode, I right clicked on my device, choose "Show Provisioning Profiles" and with a plus button added the provisioning profile to the device there.
I don't remember when I've done it last time, it's been years. I guess that Xcode normally does it for us but for some reason, it fails when we see that message.
In my case this problem occurred because another provisioning profile was selected for the unit tests. Just took me hours to find this ...
With Xcode 6 and a new device:
Press cmd + shift + 2 to open devices.
Press the "register device" button. If there is no such button (like in the screenshot) go to developer.apple.com and add it manually. Copy the Identifier into the field.
Go to Xcode -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Doubleclick on your account -> Press the little refresh button on bottom left to refresh the profiles
Go to Code Signing and set the new profiles.
We can try this: This has solved my problem . You need to reset the profile for which your device id has been added into your member area of Apple.com . .
Assuming you have your development and distribution certificate installed correctly:
Under Project your main code signing identity should be the developer profile for that app.
Under Targets your main code signing identity should be the distribution profile for that app, except that you should change Debug > Any iOS SDK to your Development profile... and make sure Release > Any iOS SDK is your Distribution profile. This should build and run on your provisioned phone and should archive without any codesign warnings.
Only thing that worked for me when my phone crashed and I had to restore it from a previous iTunes image.
This solution worked for me
Go to Xcode --> Preferences --> Account.
In the provisioning profiles section, right click and open with finder.
Delete all provisioning profiles from the provisioning profile folder.
Finally, go back to Xcode and click the refresh button.
I hope that helps!
I had the same problem. what I did is:
1. clean the target
2. exit the xcode
3. restart xcode
4. rebuild.
and it worked.
Another cause (verified):
Apple has a major bug in Xcode going back to version 3.x, where it magically overwrites the OS X keychain with a fake keychain from inside Xcode, re-installing certs (and private keys!) that you already deleted
...so, if you have "new cert" installed, and nothing else, Xcode will sometimes get into an infinite loop where it will keep ALSO installing "old cert" (that doesn't exist anywhere except inside XCode!).
...and because of ANOTHER bug in Xcode (unfixed for 3+ years now...), Xcode sometimes automatically selects the "oldest cert I can find" (whcih, by definition, is incorrect - I think someone at Apple got mixed up between "oldest" and "newest" :( )
...and EVEN THOUGH you've selected the correct provisioning profile, Xcode sends the "old" provisioning profile to the device, then signs with the "new" profile, causing this error
Solution: you have to un-FUBAR Xcode's FUBAR of your Keychain.
This is harder than it sounds (there are multiple SO posts on this topic) - it involves multiple reboots of your machine, deleting the key every time.
Eventually, Xcode gives up on corrupting your OS, and accepts the reality you present it with :).
Changing the provisioning profile to automatic then running prompted Xcode to "fix" the issue. I then changed back to my original provisioning profile and everything worked fine.
In my case a valid provisioning file is because I didn't add the device to the very provisioning file.
Had the same problem. My solution was very easy. I checked If I have my device's UDID in developer.apple.com and it was absent. After I added it, it starts working. It is very annoying that Apple developers give error "A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found" instead of "UDID is not found". Actually I mentioned it first in XCode 6...
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
If it does not work set time automatically of both mac & iPhone, will work fine.
Remove certificate, profiles and recreate it. Install it. Thats the best soultion.
In my experience this problem happens if you try to build on a device that is not registered in your developer center or is not enabled inside provisioning profile that you are using.
1) Add the device to the developer center.
In XCode 5 you'll still find a button "add to member center" inside the Organizer window.
In XCode 6 i suggest to copy the device ID and manually add it to the device section of your member center.
2) Edit the provisioning profile you're using to include the device you have just added. Save and synchronize provisioning profiles from XCode.
Clean, and it is on.
One of the cause could be your "project => Build Settings => Signing => Development Team" is different from your "target => Build Settings => Signing => Development Team", just make them same
After select auto manager signing
You may still need to check the selection in settings. Sometime, it's not correct there.
I had a certificate that expired (which generated the error).
Step 1. Go to developer.apple.com, login, and go to IOS provisioning portal
Step 2. Go to certificates (which is now empty), and follow the instructions listed to create a new certificate (open keychain on your computer, create a signing request, save it to disk, upload it to apple)
Step 3. Download and install the files created by apple to your keychain
Step 4. Problem: all of your previous provisioning profiles were associated with your OLD certificate, so you need to go back to developer.apple.com->IOS provising portal-> provisioning profiles and 'modify' each profile you care about. You will see that your identity is no longer assicated with the profile, so just click the check box
Step 5. Download all the profiles you changed
Step 6. Plugin your phone and drag and drop the .mobileprovision file onto xcode icon in the dock bar to install them on the device
I saw this problem because I had obtained a new Mac, and was still using my old Computer's certificate. I had created a new certificate for the new Mac, but had both certificates in my keychain.
In the Organizer, the profile warned that "XCode could not find a valid private-key/certificate pair for this profile in your keychain" even though the old certificate existed in my Keychain.
The solution was to delete the old certificate from my Keychain and delete/revoke of all the profiles which used this old certificate. Then create a new profile with the new certificate and use this.
Hope this helps!
Bringing an app up from Xcode 3 to 4.3 I found the Bundle name and Bundle identifier had to be set to match the AppId.
If all else fails, give that a whirl.
I faced same issue there may some other reasons too:
While testing i set my date to some future date and profile got expired. As result this issue was generated.
But i solved by setting date of iphone to current date as a result profile was not expired.
I'm compiling my app in Adobe Air for iOS, not Xcode. I was trying to copy the .ipa using iTunes, and got a mysterious "Error installing app" message. It wasn't until I used the iPhone Configuration Utility (iCU) that I got the real error message.
The problem was that I was compiling the app with a provisioning profile for ad hoc distribution and a certificate for development. I didn't understand that there are 2 types of certificates, and 2 types of provisioning profiles. There's one of each for development and one for distribution. If they don't match... then you get that error message. It's obvious once you understand it...
The solution was to download the distribution certificate (.cer), double click to open in Keychain, and export that as P12 from KC directly. Then use that P12 distribution certificate in the publish settings (Flash IDE or Flash builder), and also use the provisioning profile used for ad hoc distribution (.mobileprovision). Then finally install the provisioning profile and the .ipa file using the iPhone Configuration Utility.
That did it for me.
In my case my provisioning profile was invalid because apple has changed some of its terms and conditions. To fix problem I had to
delete previous profile.
I had to accept terms and condition from this website of apple.
Click Your app from Xcode Under Targets. (Under project.) Here you see Summary info, build settings, Build phases, build rules.
Okay go to Build Settings. Go down to Code Signing.
You see you have two fields Debug and Release. You have two profiles to choose from in each of those fields, Distributing and developing.
Let distributing be the one from the Release field. Let Developing be the one from the Debug field.
Doing this solved this problem, and let that error message go away. Now I can run my application fine.
Xcode gives me this warning when I build the app for release.
Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate. (-19011)
Do I need to delete all entries from my keychain and redo getting a certificate, provisioning profile, etc?
I can build and debug on the iPhone and iPad without a problem.
If you know how I can solve this dilemma, please provide exact steps or a way for me to contact you about this.
Thanks
----UPDATE -----
Build Log
Validate build/Release-iphoneos/iApp.app
cd "/Users/iosdeveloper/Documents/Programming/iPad/iApp HD"
setenv PATH "/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
setenv PRODUCT_TYPE com.apple.product-type.application
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/Validation "/Users/iosdeveloper/Documents/Programming/iPad/iApp HD/build/Release-iphoneos/iApp.app"
warning: Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate. (-19011)
Executable=/Users/iosdeveloper/Documents/Programming/iPad/iApp HD/build/Release-iphoneos/iApp.app/iApp
codesign_wrapper-0.7.10: using Apple CA for profile evaluation
/Users/iosdeveloper/Documents/Programming/iPad/iApp HD/build/Release-iphoneos/iApp.app: valid on disk
/Users/iosdeveloper/Documents/Programming/iPad/iApp HD/build/Release-iphoneos/iApp.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement
test-requirement: failed to satisfy code requirement(s)
codesign_wrapper-0.7.10: failed to execute codesign(1)
- (null)
Here's the checklist I go through when I've hit this:
Clean all targets, exit Xcode, then go drag the build folder from your project to the trash.
Do the Get Info on your project, make sure the Code Signing Entitlements and Code Signing Identity are selected correctly. Do the same for your Targets.
Login to the iOS Provisioning Portal and make sure the Distribution certificate has not expired. Also check the Distribution Provisioning Profile and make sure it is Active. Make sure the Certificate is properly in your Keychain and the Distribution profile is in Xcode Organizer (if you have multiple of the same one, delete all but the correct one and redo step #2).
Look at your Build Results on the failure and identify which profile it is actually using and make sure it is the right one.
You probably need to check what code signing profile is selected in your distribution build properties.
It looks like your target is "Development" but Xcode applied some of distribution settings to it, so the warning simply means your ad-hoc build has no valid AppStore submission certificate. Go to your target settings, choose the Release configuration and uncheck "Validate Built Product" option.
Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate. (-19011)
i am got the Same Warning Message...
I just Changed to iOs Deployment target 4.3 to 3.2.2 its works perfectly .....
Note: you may have to go to XCode's "Project" and select "Edit Active Target (appname)",
which is near the bottom of the list ... in the new pane that opens, select "Build", then
under "Code Signing Identity" select your distribution provision. Note that this seems
to be editing a different thing than "Project" / "Edit Project" (editing "target" instead
of "project"). I found I had to edit both project and target's code signing identities.
I had exactly the same problem. It was due to installing Xcode 4.0.2 and 4.2 preview 3 at the same time. Removed both (through the provided uninstall scripts):
<Xcodedir>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
Then rebooted and installed 4.0.2 and it works :/
I have found the codesign process a headache - I always shudder when I get am ready to use Ad Hoc distribution to beta test. After the usual round of errors and failed fix attempts I ignored the "application failed codesign" error and sent the build to a beta tester. It worked without issue.
Very frustrating.
In the build log provided in the -UPDATE- section of the original post the root cause of the failed signature verification is expressed with the text:
"test-requirement: code failed to satisfy specified code requirement(s)". That particular flavor of failed signature verification is almost always caused by mistakenly signing your app with an iPhone Developer profile instead of an iPhone Distribution profile.
It can be confirmed with the steps in "How do I verify the certificate that was used to sign my app?". If the certificate "Identity" is "iPhone Developer: YOUR_NAME" instead of "iPhone Distribution: ..." that is the reason for the "Application failed codesign verification" error, and you can resolve it by performing the following steps:
1a). if you have not yet created an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile yet, that is done on the "Distribution" tab of the "Provisioning" Section of the iOS Portal site.
Note, the "Distribution" tab is only available to Team Members whose role is either "Agent" (the one who signed up for the iOS Developer Program), or "Admin" (those that the Agent grant access to app-distribution capabilities).
1b). if you're fairly certain you have an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile installed in your Xcode profile library, you can verify it is an App Store profile as well as the App ID associated to it by using the steps in section How do I confirm my Provisioning Profile is for App Store distribution?
2). verify that your Scheme 'Archive' task is mapped to "Release" using the steps in section:
"Creating an Application Archive"
3). check that you have an your App Store provisioning profile assigned to your "Release" Code Signing Identity using the steps in section
"Assigning Provisioning Profiles to Build Configurations".
Note: it's important to make these changes at the Target level Build Settings, versus the Project level ones, as Target settings override Project ones...you can think of the Project level build settings as 'defaults' to populate target settings (and any future targets) with. Also, Ensure the "All" button is depressed in the upper-left corner of Target Build Settings to reveal the "Code Signing Identity" section.
4). retry your Product > Archive.
If the issue persists after the above, I recommend continuing onto Apple's complete list of potential causes of this error at the following URL "How do I resolve the error: Application failed codesign verification?"
My problem was solved when I noticed that I only had a "team" provisioning profile, and the details in iOS Dev Center told me that it was not a profile fit for development because it had no device attached. So I created a second provisioning profile, which let me check the box for my device so that it had a device attached.
Then when validating or submitting the app from the Organizer window (after pressing 'Build and archive'), I first made the mistake of selecting this new profile as the code signing profile. That was wrong. The profile that worked was iPhone Developer.
Good luck!
PS: This whole submission process is a heap of abacadabra. Do you really have to create a zillion distribution profiles, provisioning profiles, etc.? It hasn't encouraged me in any way to better test my app. I already did that before I chose to upload, and clicking a hundred buttons labeled 'Create','Download' and 'Submit' isn't really a quality control process that added anything (well except being forced to buy an iPad and test on that). Who ever said iOS was developer friendly?
My problem was that the Archive scheme did not have Build Configuration of App Store, but of Release. To change this, go to Product -> Edit scheme, select Archive on left side and change Build Configuration to App Store. I am assuming the code signing is configured properly (with distribution certificate).
You probably created a new certificate without refreshing the provisioning profiles
Create your iOS Distribution Provisioning Profile for App Store Distribution
I solved this by deleting the Archive that's not validating from the Organizer, closed and reopened Xcode and built for Archiving again.
I then chose Archive from the drop down menu. After doing that my app passed validation.
Hope that helps.
I am having a problem with ad-hoc distribution on my iPhone. I have developed an application with SDK 3.0. I have a developer's license. I have added certificates and provisioning profiles in my project. So, no problem with that.
But, when I try to install the app on my iPhone, it compiles the project and then displays the error: "The executable was signed with invalid entitlements" in the Organizer window. Am I missing something? I have upgraded my iPhone from 2.2.1 and have downloaded latest SDK from Apple.
Please help me with this issue.
There are pretty good instructions in the 'Portal Program'. If you log into
http://developer.apple.com/iphone
Then click Distribution on the left, and click the
Creating and Downloading a Distribution Provisioning Profile for Ad Hoc Distribution
link at the bottom.
Here's the key bit:
For Ad Hoc Distribution, complete the following:
In the File Menu, select New File -> iPhone OS -> Code Signing -> Entitlements.
Name the file “Entitlements.plist" and click ‘Finish’. This creates a copy of the default entitlements file within the project.
Select the new Entitlments.plist file and uncheck the “get-task-allow” property. Save the Entitlements.plist file. (in Xcode 4, get-task-allow is called "Can be debugged" )
Select the Target and open the Build settings inspector. In the ‘Code Signing Entitlements’ build setting, type in the filename of the new Entitlements.plist file including the extension. There is no need to specify a path unless you have put the Entitlements.plist file somewhere other than the top level of the project.
Click ‘Build’. (Note: Your binary must contain a flattened, square-image icon that is 57x57 pixels. This icon is displayed on the iPhone or iPod touch home screen.)
This error also may occur if you're trying to profile an app where the device is not included in the provisioning profile.
Make sure your device is included in the dev provisioning profile you want to use. Somehow the error message is misleading. My entitlements were actually ok.
I have found that "get-task-allow" needs to be checked for Development builds but unchecked for Distribution builds. The easiest way to accomplish this (AFAIK) is to have two entitlements files in your project: Entitlements.plist and EntitlementsDebug.plist - and to reference the proper one in the build project settings for the various configurations in your project.
Code signing entitlements are no longer necessary for Ad Hoc builds in Xcode 4 - see details notes in Apple Technical Note TN2250
If you once come into the situation, that checking "get-task-allow" seems to be required in order to deploy your debug (!) build to your phone, check this:
a) Check the build setting. There should be no entry in "Code Signing Entitlements" for Debug
b) Remove Entitlements.plist temporarily and build your debug version. If it complains about a missing Entitlements.plist, then you probably have the same situation, I had to fight today.
c) Build again with Entitlements.plist and enable "get-task-allow". If it works now, you probably have the same problem:
After messing around with new profiles I couldn't deploy my Debug build to the phone. AdHoc was fine. I checked a) - empty.. Hmm. I checked b) - complains. c) - worked...
After all I examined project.pbjproj in an editor and - although the GUI did claim, that there was no entry for "Code Signing Entitlements" in fact there was one in the Debug section. I emptied it and was done.
This is because your device, on which you are running your application is not selected with your provisioning profile.
So just go through Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles select your iOS Provisioning Profiles click on edit then select your Device
I have just had an exciting three hours battling with this. I have just upgraded a project to 4.2 and for some reason it just wouldn't work.
I eventually removed the Entitlements.plist file and then created a new one.
File > New File > Code Signing > Entitlement
Name the file Entitlements.plist
Make sure it's in the Resources group in xCode.
It didn't put in the get-task-allow BOOL type in the Entitlements.plist file. I added it, checked it, saved it, unchecked it, saved it. This made me feel better.
I then removed the Adhoc and Release profiles I had created. Re-downloaded them from the Provisioning Portal and droped them back into the xCode organizer.
I then went into Build Settings and made sure the correct profiles were assigned to the Debug and Release profiles.
I then changed the to Release / Device. Hit the build button and it worked.
I have no idea why.
John's answer is 99% correct. I found that (at least in my configuration), you have to open the Build settings inspector for the PROJECT. The build settings for the target do not contain "Code Signing Entitlements". Perhaps this doesn't make a difference if you have only one target in your project. But if you have multiple targets, you need to go to the project build settings. In any case, after doing what John said, my ad-hoc distribution build worked perfectly.
In Xcode 5.1, if you go into Preferences -> Accounts -> View Details...
Make sure the Signing Identity status is Valid. If it says Revoked, hit the Plus button and add the appropriate signing identity: iOS Development or iOS Distribution. Xcode will replace it with a new, valid one.
For me that solved it:
https://coderwall.com/p/-ckobg
Open Project.xcodeproj > project.pbxproj
Remove all lines like these:
PROVISIONING_PROFILE = ...
"PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = ...
CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = ...
"CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = ...
Set provisioning profiles & code signings for the target again
pJosh, this might help understanding. In my case, my Team Provisioning Profile was expiring (the Provisioning Portal indicated it is managed by XCode), as well as the device testing profile for the app. (I still don't know why, but the portal had a "Renew" button next to the team profile, but it wouldn't do anything when I clicked it.)
So, I deleted the profiles about to expire, then in XCode go to Organizer (Command-Shift-2), under Library / Provisioning Profiles, I deleted the expiring ones. Then click "Refresh" at the bottom, enter my Apple ID, and it renewed the expiring ones.
Finally, on my Target, I went to Build Settings, Code Signing, and made sure to select the provisioning profile. Voila, now it builds to my device.
Just got this same error code.
It seems there are different things that cause this and therefore different ways to fix it.
In my case, I had two different devices with the same name (an iPhone 4 and an iPhone 4S). Changing the name of one of them fixed this error completely for me...
I was trying to add iCloud support to my existing app, but found that after adding entitlements and configuring iCloud, my app would no longer debug.
I realised that my generic iOS development certificate had a different APPID from the app I was working on. So to fix it, instead of using my generic certificate I created a specific development certificate for that APPID.
I refreshed my provisioning profile in XCode, cleaned out the app, disconnected my device, restarted XCOde and connected device and ran, and it now works a treat!
I also spent several hours fighting with this as well. The fix is real simple. Edit your Entitlements.plist file in the root of your project's directory. Find the line that says <key>get-task-allow</key>. Underneath it should be <false/>. Change that to <true/>.
Sorry that this is very late, but I just was looking at this question and found something that worked for me. I went to PROJECT->Build Settings and found the Code Signing section. Beside debug, my distribution profile that said Iphone Distribution: MY NAME was selected. I instead selected Iphone Developer: MY NAME on the drop-down list under IpodProfile (for bundle identifiers com.myName.myApp which was the provisioning Profile for my device. Hope this helps!
I just had this happen to a developer on the team I administer.
It turned out his developer certificate expired and after renewal, I neglected to add his certificate to the provisioning profile his app used.
I had not agreed to the new updated licensed agreement from apple.
Briefly : Please log in to your developer's account -> profile's -> review -> read the agreement or get your lawyer read it for you -> agree (at your own will) -> and again click profile's to check the status of your profile.
In my scenario the valid code signing entity was not showing up. When i followed the above procedure it was visible and i was able to run the app on the device and/or create the iPA file without much difficulty.
Had this issue occur when everything seemed to be setup correctly, build setting were pointing to correct provisioning profile, code signing was properly setup, etc.
Issue occurred because I had just created a new scheme and hadn't regenerated my CocoaPods for the new configurations. As you can see from the image, the new ad-hoc configuration is pointing to the Pods.production configuration, instead of a Pods.ad-hoc configuration (and test respectively)
To fix:
Set the offending configuration to None -- cocoapods wouldn't generate the configs unless I did this
Close XCode
Run pod install
Re-open XCode and set the new scheme's configurations to the newly generated configurations.
That's it!
Check if you're device is included in the provisioning profile.