Trying to submit an update to my app to the app store, my certificates were expired. so I deleted all the certificates and provisioning profiles from https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/certificate/ and from the Keychain and deleted provisioning profiles from '~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles' and option-clicked Product → Clean Build Folder, and started process from the beginning, but new problem arises (see title of post).
Exportarchive No Signing Certificate Mac App Distribution Found
A development certificate is used to develop apps internally, which are deployed on internal devices. A distribution certificate is used to release an app to the App Store that can run on any device. Follow the steps below to generate the distribution certificate: Go to the Apple Developer Portal, and sign in using your Apple ID and password. I also have ran into similar problem after updating the VS 2019 to 16.5.3 update and Xcode 11.4 with Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4. I can see the provisioning profile in Xcode just fine but it isn't fetching the same in Visual Studio. Signing Identity just shows blank. Also i am wondering how would i be able to publish the app to. The process of acquiring valid signing may be troublesome and requires intimate knowledge with the app’s operation modes, such as which entitlements are needed to tap into the full range of the app’s functionality, creating an iOS distribution certificate, etc.
Here is what I did:
- In https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/certificate/ clicked Certificates then selected 'iOS, tvOS, watchOS' from the combo lisstbox.
- Clicked [+] on top right corner.
- Clicked the 'App Store and Ad Hoc' radio button.
- Clicked Continnue
- Launhed Keychain App
- Keychain Access → Certificate Assistant → Request a Certificate from Certificate Authority...
- User email same as my Apple ID, Common Name my first and last name.
- Click the 'Saved to disk' radio button, Continue and saved the 'CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest' file to Downloads folder.
- Back to https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/certificate/ clicked continue.
- Clicked choose file... and selected 'CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest' and clicked Continue.
- On the 'Your certificate is ready.' page I clicked Download to download the 'ios_distribution.cer' file to the Downloads folder and clicked done.
- Double clicked 'ios_distribution.cer' file which opened up in Keychain Access and confirmed it was addedd successfuly.
Certificate appears as:
🔽iPhone Distribution: My Name (UKF99V45DM)
🔑My Name
kind: private key, RSA, 2,048-bit
usage: any - Back to https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/certificate/ clicked on Provisioning Profiles
- Clicked [+] on top right corner.
- Clicked 'Distribution - App Store' radio button, then clicked Continue.
- Chose the App ID (that I'm working on), then clicked continue.
- Clicked the iOS Distribution certificate radio button, then continue.
- For profile name I wrote: 'My app name Provisioning Profile', then clicked continue.
- Then clicked the download button to download the 'My_app_name_Provisioning_Profile.mobileprovision' file.
- Back to Xcode, opened up the app project file.
- In the Project - Targets window, I clicked the 'Automatically manage signing' checkbox, selected my team name, then unckecked the 'Automatically manage signing' checkbox.
- For Signing for Debug and Release, I did the same:
- Provision Profile → Import Profile... and selected the 'My_app_name_Provisioning_Profile.mobileprovision' file from step 19.
- But now for both the provision profile status in Xcode is: Provisioning profile 'My App Name Provisioning Profile' doesn't include signing certificate 'iPhone Developer: My Name (XUM88H55M8)'.
No Signing Certificate Mac App Distribution Foundation
Even though I double check that in Keychain Access the certificate is in there with a key.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
I would place screenshots here but this forum desn't seem to permit inserting screenshots.
Thank you.