Hello,
I’m having trouble enabling Background Location updates on my iOS app.
Xcode: 26.0 beta
Team: Individual Developer Program (paid, activated recently)
Device: iPhone (physical device, registered and provisioned)
Problem
When building to device, I get the error:
Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: com.mybundle.id" doesn't include the com.apple.developer.background-modes entitlement.
Automatic signing failed.
On the simulator the build succeeds, but on device the signing fails unless I remove the background-modes entitlement from .entitlements.
What I tried
Enabled Background Modes → Location updates in Signing & Capabilities (UI only).
Info.plist contains UIBackgroundModes = location and the required NSLocation…UsageDescription keys.
Cleaned Derived Data, removed cached provisioning profiles (~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/Provisioning Profiles).
Changed Bundle Identifier to force regeneration of provisioning profiles.
Deleted and recreated provisioning profiles from Xcode.
Tried both with and without manual .entitlements edits.
Current status
Provisioning profile shows only App Groups, In-App Purchase, Push Notifications.
Entitlements section in the downloaded profile is missing com.apple.developer.background-modes.
As a result, background location cannot be enabled on device.
Question
Is this a known issue with Xcode 16/26 beta or with Individual Developer accounts?
How can I get com.apple.developer.background-modes included in my provisioning profile so that location tracking continues while the screen is locked?
Thank you.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Tags:
Xcode
Provisioning Profiles
Core Location