We are seeing what looks like a signing / managed-capability mismatch for Contactless Pass Provisioning.
Environment
- Team ID: S7AUTD2C2B
- Bundle IDs:
- com.swiftpass.ios
- com.swiftpass.ios.dev
- Xcode: 26.4
- macOS: 26.4
Problem
Our app has had Contactless Pass Provisioning approved by Apple for a long time, and builds were working until a few days ago. Without any intentional signing/capability changes on our side, Xcode started failing with the following error:
Provisioning profile "Swiftpass prod Appstore" doesn't include the Contactless Pass Provisioning capability. Contactless Pass Provisioning capability needs to be assigned to your team and bundle identifier by Apple in order to be included in a profile.
Observed behavior
- Xcode marks the relevant provisioning profiles as "Ineligible" in the profile selector.
- This affects both development/debug and release/App Store builds.
- If we remove Contactless Pass Provisioning from the app entitlements/capabilities, the exact same profiles immediately become eligible and the signing error disappears.
Important detail
The downloaded provisioning profiles already contain the entitlement that Xcode claims is missing.
We verified the downloaded profile with:
security cms -D -i /Users/sergej/Downloads/Swiftpass_prod_Appstore\(1\).mobileprovision
and it contains:
<key>com.apple.developer.contactless-payment-pass-provisioning</key>
<array>
<string>shareablecredential</string>
</array>
So the issue appears to be that
- the profile contents look correct
- the capability is still present in the developer portal
- but Xcode's eligibility check still says the profile does not include the capability
What we verified
- Contactless Pass Provisioning is still enabled for the App ID in the Apple Developer portal
- Newly recreated / redownloaded profiles still contain the entitlement
- Both dev and distribution profiles are affected
- The behavior is reproducible across profile refreshes and local cleanup
What we already tried
- Reinstalled Xcode
- Updated Xcode and macOS
- Updated command line tools
- Cleaned DerivedData
- Deleted local provisioning profile cache
- Refreshed/redownloaded profiles from Xcode
- Recreated provisioning profiles in the developer portal
- Removed and re-added the capability in Xcode
Expected behavior
If the downloaded provisioning profile contains com.apple.developer.contactless-payment-pass-provisioning, Xcode should treat that profile as eligible.
Actual behavior Xcode reports that the capability is missing and marks the profile as ineligible, even though the entitlement is present in the downloaded profile.
Question Has anyone seen this specific mismatch with Contactless Pass Provisioning or other managed capabilities? This currently looks like either:
- an Apple backend/App ID capability-assignment sync problem, or
- an Xcode eligibility-validation bug for managed capabilities
Feedback Assistant ID: FB22439399. It contains screenshots that showcase the issue as well.
Wow, that escalated quickly.
When I replied earlier I thought that this was something specific to sergej_swiftlane’s situation. However, this is clearly affecting a wide range of folks. A colleague of mine uncovered a third-party developer bug about this (FB22439399) [1] and we’re escalating that internally.
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[1] It may even be from one of you (-: