General: DevForums tags: Code Signing, Signing Certificates, Provisioning Profiles, Entitlements Developer Account Help — This document is good in general but, in particular, the Reference section is chock-full of useful information, including the names and purposes of all certificate types issued by Apple Developer web site, tables of which capabilities are supported by which distribution models on iOS and macOS, and information on how to use managed capabilities. Developer > Support > Certificates covers some important policy issues Entitlements documentation TN3125 Inside Code Signing: Provisioning Profiles — This includes links to other technotes in the Inside Code Signing series. WWDC 2021 Session 10204 Distribute apps in Xcode with cloud signing Certificate Signing Requests Explained DevForums post --deep Considered Harmful DevForums post Don’t Run App Store Distribution-Signed Code DevForums post Resolving errSecInternalComponent errors during code signing DevForums post Finding a Capability’s Distribution Restrictions DevForums post Signing code with a hardware-based code-signing identity DevForums post Mac code signing: DevForums tag: Developer ID Creating distribution-signed code for macOS documentation Packaging Mac software for distribution documentation Placing Content in a Bundle documentation Embedding Nonstandard Code Structures in a Bundle documentation Embedding a Command-Line Tool in a Sandboxed App documentation Signing a Daemon with a Restricted Entitlement documentation Defining launch environment and library constraints documentation WWDC 2023 Session 10266 Protect your Mac app with environment constraints TN2206 macOS Code Signing In Depth archived technote — This doc has mostly been replaced by the other resources linked to here but it still contains a few unique tidbits and it’s a great historical reference. Manual Code Signing Example DevForums post The Care and Feeding of Developer ID DevForums post TestFlight, Provisioning Profiles, and the Mac App Store DevForums post For problems with notarisation, see Notarisation Resources. For problems with the trusted execution system, including Gatekeeper, see Trusted Execution Resources. Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

Hello, I was trying to solve the error "Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code" that occurs when I try to archive and publish my app. I realized the Team IDs on the Portal (To right corner next to my name eg "Pete Park - ABC1D2E334") and my Mac Keychain Acces (eg "Pete Park - XYZ9W8V776") do not match. The number on KeyChain Access, is that's a Team ID. (clueless self learner here) If yes, do they need to match? Any suggestion for the CodeSign error? Is "errSecInternalComponent" the error? Sorry if these questions are obvious or stupid. Thanks so much for any advice.

Here's the error I'm getting: Communication with Apple failed Your team has no devices from which to generate a provisioning profile. Connect a device to use or manually add device IDs in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles. https://developer.apple.com/account/ I've requested a certificate from certificate authority, added it to my developer account, downloaded the added certificate and added it to my machine yet I'm still getting the error above. How can I resolve this?

Creating CSR file from my Mac steps are :- Going to the Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority... Filling the required details in the field, save to desk then continue and save it desktop. Then going to the Developer account in Certification screen and creating a new certificate on click on plus icon then selecting Apple distribution > continue , Then uploading CSR file in the required box and continue. After this I have downloaded the “distribution.cer” file then double clicked on the file then going to the KeyChain Access to see the My Certificate section there is no certificate which I have installed but it showing in the Certificate section without Private key. This steps I have followed but not getting Private key in my certificate how to correct this issue System Configuration :- Mac OS- 14.5 Chip - Apple M1 Keychain Access version - Version 11.0 (55314)

Dear Apple Developer Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am currently utilizing the services at https://identity.apple.com for mobile device management and encountered an issue while attempting to upload a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) file to the portal. The system generated an error indicating that the file format was invalid. Below are the steps I followed to generate the CSR: I first created a private key on my server using the following command: openssl genrsa -out private.key 2048 Next, I generated the CSR file with the following command: openssl req -new -key private.key -out request.csr Despite following these steps, I could not successfully upload the CSR file and obtain the APNs certificate. I would greatly appreciate your guidance on creating and uploading a valid CSR file to avoid this error. Please let me know if there are any specific formatting requirements or additional steps I need to follow. Thank you in advance for your assistance and support.

I need to get the distribution certificate SHA-1 and public key in order to apply an official filing, but the certificate in deveoper account page is not downloadble. could someone help me on this? how to download certicate or to get SHA-1 and pubkey of the cert? thanks.

Hi there, My developer is trying to access my account. He's got admin access but keeps getting "Join the apple developer Program" message. Even though we have signed up for the developer account. We are trying to setup certificates and Identifiers but gets a message saying the Team ID isnt associated with the an active membership. The apple ID that's shown isnt even the same as our apple ID. How do we get around this as I don't want to share my credentials with the developer. Thanks so much,

I have a major problem with team membership and Xcode. I work in a company, where my apple account was added to the development team with app manager role. I can see that on the apple portal, everything seems fine there. I have been also provided with the provisioning profile for the project and signing certificate of the company. However, when I log into Xcode the team does not show up anywhere. I am able to build the app, but cannot distribute to TestFlight (or anywhere else). When I use manual signing to choose the signing certificate it shows the "unknown team" message next to it. When I check my account in xcode it also only shows my personal team and does not allow to pick any other one (doesn't show any other one). When I click the "+" button on my xcode account to add a certificate an error pops up: "You already have active certificate or a pending request". I do have a pending request to enroll into apple developers program, but everyone says you don't need one if you are added to the team, you can just operate as a team member. Finally, when trying to upload to TestFlight, the following error is displayed: "No team for account ***" I have tried deleting and re-adding all the certificates. I have tried logging in and out of Xcode, I have tried deleting and re-adding my account in Xcode. I have tried reloading everything. My account was deleted and re-added to developers team. Nothing worked. I don't know the source of the issue, nor does my employer. I am new to ios development and this is my first project. Please help!

Hi. I'm an iOS developer, We are creating a Automaker Carplay app for an Automaker provider, but we are facing some troubles: Xcode error: Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: BundleIdentifier" doesn't match the entitlements file's value for the com.apple.developer.carplay-protocols entitlement. We have the entitlements requested and approved by apple, but we cannot deploy the app in real devices. We don't know if we need to do an extra step. Thank you very much.

We want to make an app for the customers to install ipa files without use of third party apps or Other devices like Xcode, ITunes

Starting Point I recently transferred an app from an old to a new developer account. The transfer itself went smoothly with the app using the following capabilities: CoreData, CloudKit, Push Notifications, In-App Purchases Keychain is not used After completing the app transfer, I worked on a new update. For this, I set the new developer account as the development team of the project in Xcode. However, as soon as I try to install the new version locally on my physical test device, I get the following error message: application-identifier entitlement string ({new_team_id}.{bundle_id}) does not match installed application's application-identifier string ({old_team_id}.{bundle_id}); rejecting upgrade.` (Note: The test device has the latest production version installed, which was still published by the old developer account. The update can be installed without any problems if no previous version is installed. {new_team_id}, {old_team_id} and {bundle_id} are a substitute for the original content.) What I've tried so far I found a Technical Note on this topic and followed the steps suggested. However, the Apple Support wasn't able to provide me with the required Special Provisioning Profile. That's why I tested a different approach with a dummy application: I have completed an update as described above (new developer account selected as development team). Next, I uploaded it to App Store Connect and published it as a new version. I received the following warning during the upload process, but ignored it since I don't use the keychain: At first glance, the publication process appears to have gone smoothly. While the update caused the above error during local testing, the update via the App Store went smoothly. As the latest production version has now also been published from the new Apple Developer Account, further updates can now also be tested locally on a physical device without any problems. Questions Why is it that the update causes an error when tested locally, but works without problems via the App Store? Can this approach also be used without concern for an app with a large active user base, which also uses the capabilities described above (in particular CoreData & CloudKit) without causing problems? Thanks a lot for your support in advance!

Hello there! I found the page on Docs about Editing provisioning profiles: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/manage-profiles/edit-download-or-delete-profiles/ but there, are showed only cases where one should edit it or when it is expired. It is not showed the case where the profile IS ABOUT to expire. What If it is about to expire and I want to act before expiring? Somewhere on the forum I read that clicking "save" with no changes could be enough, but it is not clear to me if I need to choose something more about it. I add a screenshot since It seems to me the UI changed a bit recently. using Enterprise developer program, in-house distribution I can see no certificate with dec 31 2025 (+ - 1 day) on my dev page certificates list. but I have, among my certificates, an iOS distribution certificate with exactly nov 23 2026 es expiration date. why are two choices present with two different expiration dates? with which criteria should I pick one or the other? if I have no need to change something, what should I do or do not in this screen at renewal time? (I.E. at beginning of December 2024?) app Id should be the bundle id, is it so? but in this moment app and id are different, shouldn't they be the same?

I've been working on creating a CSR for about two hours now and I cannot find a Certificate assistant anywhere. I can open up keychain access, on the left I have login and cloud and system and system roots. there are 6 submenus under keychain access: All Items, Passwords, Secure Notes, My Certificates, Keys, and Certificates. I have used the search menu to find both in the search bar 'Certificate Assistant" and also Certificate Signing Request, and neither is anywhere to be found. I've looked on the developer Account help, I've read several places what you are supposed to do, I've see the illustrations where you enter the email and leave the CA email blank, I just can't find it anywhere around Keychain access. It is really really well described on the Developer account help, and the eskimo makes it sound really easy too, only nothing appears in my keychain access. I've scrolled through all of the submenus trying to find it and it is nowhere to be fount. Any help would be much appreciated

I am new. I have never used Swift nor XCode or the CLI. But I have found and managed to test my App that I created for testing on my iPhone. I have absolutely no intentions to put it on the App Store. I even made it Open-Source on GitHub. I learned a lot of things and ways to prevent crashes, but unfortunately I am slowly starting to lose the ability to put my App on my iOS. I am new here as a developer. But I have troubles to create a Developer Account, so I am not sure what I should do. Here's what I think I am having issues with: I feel like you can only create a Developer Account if you have a business, is this true? I really find it cool to test my own App on my own phone. But I want to do it in an official way. But I don't know how. Others have told me that you'd need a License for the App Store. But I am not trying to put it on the App Store, will this make it impossible for me to test my own app? Why make an app if not putting it on the App Store? You can learn. If you make good Apps or Libraries, you can provide them to other Developers! Maybe even an opportunity to collab with someone and even indeed put it on the App Store with a valid Developer Account. Seriously, if I wouldn't have been able to test my iOS app through other ways on my iPhone, I'd have never been able to make a short breakdown about AVAudioEngine and AVAudioSession. I've seen people that have run into these crashes. I tried to look up for a fix, but found none. I saw apps that allowed you to use a Microphone on a Laptop/PC and I decided to make my own one to test, and succeded, while I yet need to figure out a few crashes, I managed to do it, and I really want to continue and actually use my own App... So I was really happy that I could make a post to provide a guide in hopes that it would help someone. And I would do more, but I really need help with figuring out how I can test my own app on my own phone. I hope that Developer Relations can help with this.

TL;DR - What have I messed up on this notarization workflow? I'm completely new to Apple development. I have been trying to notarize an application I have written, that is then packaged as a .dmg. I am trying to notarize it using the command line tools (as it is an existing app, and not written in Xcode/Swift). My steps so far are as follows: All libraries, frameworks, and other executables have been signed (.dylib, .so etc.). I have avoided using --deep as I understand this is not recommended. The above includes all similar files included within zip archives (the cross platform framework I use places some inside a zip container). I have unzipped, signed, and rezipped. I have signed the main executable within "[NAME].app/MacOS" and the "[NAME].app" with an .entitlements file, and a certificate. codesign --verify --verbose --sign "$DEVELOPER_ID_APP_CERT" --timestamp --force --entitlements "$APP_NAME.entitlements" "$BUILD_DIR/$APP_NAME.app/Contents/MacOS/$APP_NAME" codesign --verify --verbose --sign "$DEVELOPER_ID_APP_CERT" --options runtime --entitlements "$APP_NAME.entitlements" "$BUILD_DIR/$APP_NAME.app" --force --timestamp echo "Checking for unsigned components..." codesign --verify --deep --verbose=4 "$BUILD_DIR/$APP_NAME.app" echo "Verifying entitlements..." codesign --display --entitlements :- "$BUILD_DIR/$APP_NAME.app" Both of the above checks come back as ok. Then, I have the following script lines which package the app as a .dmg and submit it to notarisation. hdiutil create -volname "$APP_NAME" -srcfolder $BUILD_DIR/$APP_NAME.app" -ov -format UDZO "$BUILD_DIR/$DMG_NAME" # Sign the DMG codesign --force --verify --verbose --sign "$DEVELOPER_ID_APP_CERT" "$BUILD_DIR/$DMG_NAME" # Notarize the DMG xcrun notarytool submit "$BUILD_DIR/$DMG_NAME" --key "[AUTH_KEY_LOCATION].p8" --key-id "[KEYID]" --issuer "[ISSUERID]" --wait # Staple the notarization ticket to the DMG xcrun stapler staple "$BUILD_DIR/$DMG_NAME" # Verify the notarization xcrun stapler validate "$BUILD_DIR/$DMG_NAME" After a 20 hour wait, I get the following back from the notarization service: id: 41931e00-2f34-4389-b5e1-fd76707c2162 status: Invalid Processing: [PATH]/[APP].dmg CloudKit query for [APP].dmg (2/a428f96446e143497380c0ae1f2b70661050aed6) failed due to "Record not found". Could not find base64 encoded ticket in response for 2/a428f96446e143497380c0ae1f2b70661050aed6 The staple and validate action failed! Error 65. Processing: [PATH]/[APP].dmg FotoLabAI.dmg does not have a ticket stapled to it. On a seperate submission, I noticed something about a note about audit.log not being found, but I can't find a reference to this on Google. So far as I understand, this is the file that is supposed to help me debug notarization errors. Normally I'd try more debugging myself, but I can't afford to wait 24h for feedback.

When installing the application on my iPhone, connected using USB cable, i am facing the following issue: ERROR: The application failed to launch. (com.apple.dt.CoreDeviceError error 10002 (0x2712)) NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion = Provide a valid bundle identifier. NSLocalizedFailureReason = The requested application VALID_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER is not installed. BundleIdentifier = VALID_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER ---------------------------------------- The operation couldn?t be completed. (OSStatus error -10814.) (NSOSStatusErrorDomain error -10814 (0xFFFFD5C2)) _LSFunction = runEvaluator _LSLine = 1734 10:02:16 Acquired tunnel connection to device. 10:02:16 Enabling developer disk image services. 10:02:17 Acquired usage assertion. error MT1045: Failed to execute 'devicectl': 'devicectl -j /var/folders/vq/cdyy2xmd7g9cly1gh_hzvsj00000gn/T/tmp93djQj.tmp device process launch --terminate-existing --device "User’s iPhone" VALID_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER --monodevelop-port 10000 --connection-mode usb' returned the exit code 1 Xcode version used: 15.4 IDE used to deploy the app: Visual Studio for MAC

Hello, We are using automatic signing for a couple of projects, and we're struggling to get it to work in a CI with Xcode 16. It was working with Xcode 15 but with Xcode 16 we get the following errors : error: The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to log in with account ''. The login details for account '' were rejected. error: Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: com.bundleid.my" doesn't include signing certificate "Apple Development: Foobar (TEAMID)". Any ideas ?

I am signing my app using this command: codesign --verbose=4 --force --options=runtime --deep --timestamp --sign "${APP_IDENTITY}" "${APP_FILE}" --entitlements "./Protect.entitlements I have ensured that the necessary provisioning profiles are embedded in the IPA file. I am also verifying the signing using codesign -dvv ./JumpCloud\ Protect\ Staging.ipa and codesign --verify --deep --verbose ./JumpCloud\ Protect\ Staging.ipa Despite following the above steps, when I attempt to upload the IPA file to Transporter, I receive the following error message: Missing or invalid signature. The bundle 'com.jumpcloud.JumpCloud-Protect.staging' at bundle path 'Payload/JumpCloud Protect Staging.app' is not signed using an Apple submission certificate.

Our company changed its name as a result of a merger, and the development group responsible for our mobile apps decided to migrate from our "legacy" Apple developer account to a new account associated with the new company name. I found this out last Friday when the notification step in the build script for our Mac applications stopped working — the notification server accepts the request but never responds; we were using the --wait flag with notarytool, and as a result it hangs indefinitely. Apparently our old developer account was deactivated unexpectedly, and while it's been temporarily turned back on to allow the mobile apps team to finish migrating their apps, the notarization step continues to hang. I haven't yet tried using the new team account, because my product requires an Endpoint Security entitlement, which is associated with the old Team ID. The long-term answer is probably to re-apply for a new entitlement, but that took over a month the last time we did this, and of course we were scheduled to release a product update in two weeks. At the moment we're dead in the water. Are there any other options to get us going again? (I considered opening a code-level support request, but as this issue isn't exactly "code-level", I was worried that would be a waste of time and/or money.)

Hello there, I need guidance understanding what some certificates are related to. a) On my Apple developer page home I see that RENEWAL date for my apple developer enterprise program subscription is 2024-october-10 b) in devices section, there is a banner showing that my membership will EXPIRE on 2024-october-09 c) in certificates section I have 6 "development" certificates expiring in multiple dates from 2024-october-11 to 2025-may-22. these ones are "certificate Type - development" and **"certification name with my personal name" ** none of dates in certificates section matches exactly renewal or expiring dates for my apple developer page subscription or profile certificate. why dates in a and b are different? what are certificates in certificates section (those mentioned in "c") ? they seems different from "mac development" and such. What happens if they expire? thank you in advance.

We have developed an electron app which we want to extend with an action extension. The action extension is written in swift in Xcode. Our plan was to build the .appex file and insert it into the PlugIns folder in our electron app, but I don't think this is the right way to do it? If we insert the .appex file before notarization then we get an error that we are "replacing existing signature". If we manually insert it after the notarization then we get an error with the app is damaged and can’t be opened. Can anybody provide a procedure for this kind of merge I would imagine that it goes something like: Sign app Sign extension Add extension to App Notarize app For signing the app we use electron-builder.