We are facing issue with resigning the app which is developed by 3rd party. In this app we have Sharing functionality feature for which we have enabled Associated Domains capability.
When we are signing the app with our certificate and profile this functionality is not working i.e when we are clicking on shared link in the app it is redirecting to app store page instead of content link.
However, when 3rd party is directly using our certificate & profile then that functionality is working as expected.
Could you please help us with the above issue why it is not working when we are resigning with our certificate and profile?
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Doing it multiple times (even hours apart) doesn't help.
createdDate: 2025-03-14T13:58:40.397Z
id: eb49f8a4-bee6-432b-87de-6b11ca9d392a
name: panda-app-1.0.0-arm64.dmg
status: In Progress
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createdDate: 2025-03-14T13:23:31.444Z
id: f6f3c938-5356-434c-aba1-c425f18cb4a7
name: panda-app-1.0.0-arm64.dmg
status: In Progress
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
I’ve been wrestling with this for nearly a week now and none of the proposed fixes have worked. I’m trying to resign an app via Jenkins and have done the following:
Created a custom keychain
Imported the required .p12 certificates
Installed the Apple WWDR certificate in the System keychain
Made the login keychain my default
Added my development keychain, the login keychain and the System keychain to the user keychain list
Unlocked my development keychain
Confirmed my signing identity is present
Granted the appropriate partition list access to the keychain
"security set-key-partition-list -S apple-tool:,codesign: -k pwd /Users/ec2-user/Library/Keychains/development.keychain-db"
Yet when I invoke Fastlane’s resign action, I still see:
_floatsignTemp/Payload/EverMerge.app/Frameworks/AppLovinSDK.framework: replacing existing signature
_floatsignTemp/Payload/EverMerge.app/Frameworks/AppLovinSDK.framework: errSecInternalComponent
Encountered an error, aborting!
Any guidance on what might be causing this errSecInternalComponent failure or how to get the resign step to succeed would be highly appreciated.
Hi,
For the purposes of iteration speed in development builds, on an iPhone in development mode, I am attempting to use hot reloaded dylibs. The goal is that the app is rarely fully restarted and small code changes can be applied quickly, drastically reducing iteration speed.
For this purpose I have a socket server on my Mac that sends changed dylibs to my app on my iPhone. This works great on Mac, however on iOS i am running into codesigning problems.
I am using the following to codesign the dylib:
codesign -f -s XXX --timestamp=none testlibrary-ios.dylib
I am placing the downloaded dylib in this folder:
const char* cachedirectoryPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES)[0] UTF8String];
dlopen gives me the following error:
dlopen(/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/67A3D31B-6F72-4939-9E7F-665FC78CDC61/Library/Caches/testlibrary-ios.dylib, 0x000A): tried: '/usr/lib/system/introspection/testlibrary-ios.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/67A3D31B-6F72-4939-9E7F-665FC78CDC61/Library/Caches/testlibrary-ios.dylib' (code signature invalid in <78A101AD-D756-3526-8754-8B7F4925DE90> '/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/67A3D31B-6F72-4939-9E7F-665FC78CDC61/Library/Caches/testlibrary-ios.dylib' (errno=1) sliceOffset=0x00000000, codeBlobOffset=0x0000C2E0, codeBlobSize=0x00004990),
....
Is loading a dylib like this on iPhones in development mode possible?
Any idea what is going wrong with codesigning or installing the dylib?
(Obviously this code is never deployed in an app that goes on the AppStore)
Hi Team,
I have created multiple certificates for macOS application. Below are the certificates created-
Apple Development Certificate
DeveloperID Installer Certificate
Apple Distribution Certificate
others certificates
Later, I have imported the all these above certificates in keychain-access.
Now, I tried to compile the code through Xcode. I am getting error for code signing certificate.
Warning: unable to build chain to self-signed root for signer "Apple Development: Amit (M2WMF2YERI)”
....
Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code
When I checked the TeamID of User(Amit) I can see that his current TeamID is [P8ZW3W9R2Q].
There is mismatch of teamID in apple development certificate generation.
Note-
All certificates are generated with current TeamID[P8ZW3W9R2Q] of user (Amit) except Apple Development certificate which has been generated with TeamID [M2WMF2YERI] which is generated with old TeamID of user (Amit).
I attempted to generate the apple development certificate multiple times but it is getting generated with old TeamID TeamID[M2WMF2YERI] of user(Amit)
Summary-
While creating a developer certificate using apple developer account and mapping it in keychain, the certificate is being generated with old apple account details (Inactive) instead of the current one. This is causing issues when using the certificate in keychain.
If anyone has encountered this issue, how it was resolved?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Tags:
iCloud Keychain Verification Codes
I am experiencing an issue when publishing my .NET MAUI application for iOS using Visual Studio Code. During the publishing process, I encountered a codesign error. Hope someone can help me. This is the error:
Warning: unable to build chain to self-signed root for signer "Apple Distribution: SOFTBUILDER SDN. BHD. (********)"
/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/bin/Release/net8.0-ios/ios-arm64/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.app: errSecInternalComponent
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : /usr/bin/codesign exited with code 1: [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : Warning: unable to build chain to self-signed root for signer "Apple Distribution: SOFTBUILDER SDN. BHD. (U44UY7DYY7)" [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : /Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/bin/Release/net8.0-ios/ios-arm64/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.app: errSecInternalComponent [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : Failed to codesign '/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/bin/Release/net8.0-ios/ios-arm64/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.app': Warning: unable to build chain to self-signed root for signer "Apple Distribution: SOFTBUILDER SDN. BHD. (U44UY7DYY7)" [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : /Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/bin/Release/net8.0-ios/ios-arm64/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.app: errSecInternalComponent [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.iOS.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8316/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(2335,3): error : [/Users/frankongthuanhong/Desktop/App/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui/MLBusinessCafe_Maui.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-ios]
I am running into this error with productbuild in github actions where the program hangs with a specific developer id.
I have verified that my certification files are properly uploaded etc. and i am able to run this without the --sign command online and with --sign offline.
if i sign with a "3rd party mac developer installer: ***" it will run but then crash on stapling because this isn't the actual org i want to staple and don't really need to verify that i could staple with this other license since it is my personal license and i will be leaving this job soon so setting up all my other certs is a waste of time since it doesn't solve the problem.
When i use my bosses/org "Developer ID Installer: ***" productbuild just hangs. I am at a loss here...
the acutal command running is
productbuild --resources ./resources --distribution distribution.xml --sign "${{ secrets.DEVELOPER_ID_INSTALLER }}" --timestamp "${{ env.ARTIFACT_NAME }}.pkg"
I have confirmed that my distribution file is fine etc. because I can productbuild without signing fine. Any suggestions on where to go?
Hi, I am working on a personal HIDDriverKit project. The documentation suggests that you do not need the entitlements from Apple to do local development - that all you need to do is turn of SIP, enable developer mode, and turn signing to "Sign to Run Locally".
However, I have followed all of these steps, and am still running into the error that to build, I need to have a provisioning profile with the DriverKit (development) feature (MacOS 15.2 Xcode 16.2).
Am I missing something here regarding the steps for local development? Does one need to request a development version of the entitlements even for local development? Do I need a paid developer account to do this?
Thank-you in advance.
I’m having issues trying to codesign a .app file. We generated the Developer ID Application certificate using the organization owner’s account. I downloaded the certificate to my Mac and imported it into my keychain, but when I run the codesign command below, I get the following error.
Could you help me? What am I doing wrong? Is there any other way to sign the .app executable?
From what I’ve seen in other posts, it looks like the certificate needs to have a private key, but the certificate I download from the developer portal doesn’t include the key. Also, about exporting it as a .p12 — I couldn’t quite understand if that’s considered a safe practice, since the organization owner’s private key would be included in this certificate that we plan to use in our pipeline.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Tags:
Signing Certificates
Developer ID
I’ve been having problems with MacOS builds. I’m making a release Appstore build and uploading it to Testflight. However when running it instantly crashes, and report screen shows the following:
Current flow:
I sign all files in PlugIns/ (we have a number of .bundle), and I’ve tried combinations of signing with/without --entitlements, as well as with/without --deep.
After this I sign Frameworks/GameAssembly.dylib and Frameworks/UnityPlayer.dylib. Again, I’ve tried combinations of with/without --entitlements and --deep, also not signing them at all.
After signing PlugIns and frameworks, I sign the .app, also tried this with/without --deep (always with --entitlements).
Finally I make a .pkg and upload to Testflight.
It’s not the game, as I can make an enterprise version that runs fine.
We have some restricted entitlements, such as Apple Arcade.
Building from an M1 mac, and architecture is Universal (Intel + ARM).
Unity documentation says to use --deep, but Apple documentation highly recommend against it.
So basically, my question is, how and in what order should I sign the files?
Much obliged!
How can I disable Hardened Runtime in Xcode only when signing ad hoc?
If I make a new project, Xcode will say
Disabling hardened runtime with ad-hoc codesigning.
at the beginning of the build logs.
However, somehow my project isn't doing this -- it's still hardening the runtime when ad-hoc signing.
What should I do to debug this?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Entitlements
Hello,
I am normally a windows programmer, but I am trying to get my PySide/Qt app into the app store. I'm almost there, I just have a couple of questions about the signing process.
I have two laptops, one intel silicon, one mac silicon. I created 2 CSR's, one on each laptop and used them to generate 2 Mac Installer Distribution certificates and 2 Mac App Distribution certificates.
When it came to downloading the provisioning profile, I selected one Mac App Distrbution Certificate on the interface at developer.apple.com, saved it and then downloaded to the appropriate laptop. I then switched the provisioning profile to the other Mac App Distribution Certificate and downloaded it to the other laptop. I then built the app and uploaded everything using xcrun altool.
On the intel machine only(which has the first provisioning profile) I successfully uploaded the package but I get an email identifying lots of similar errors of the type (Lets call it error1):
ITMS-90284: Invalid Code Signing - The executable XXXXX must be signed with the certificate that is contained in the provisioning profile.
On the ARM machine only i get the following error (Lets call it error2):
ITMS-91109: Invalid package contents - The package contains one or more files with the com.apple.quarantine extended file attribute, such as XXXXXXXX embedded.provisionprofile”. This attribute isn’t permitted in macOS apps distributed on TestFlight or the App Store. Please remove the attribute from all files within your app and upload again.
On both I get the following error lets call it error3:
ITMS-90886: 'Cannot be used with TestFlight because the signature for the bundle at XXXXX is missing an application identifier but has an application identifier in the provisioning profile for the bundle. Bundles with application identifiers in the provisioning profile are expected to have the same identifier signed into the bundle in order to be eligible for TestFlight.'
My first inclination is that all the error1's are coming from having two sets of CSRs, Mac Distribution certificates, provisioning profiles etc. Should I have only used one CSR and made one each of the Certificates?
I don't know why I have error2. I don't know where the quarantine attribute is coming from and why it would affect the mac silicon and not the intel. Any ideas? my entitlements file has the following:
<key>com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.app-sandbox</key>
<true/>
<key>com.apple.security.device.bluetooth</key>
Error3 is the one where I need to try a few things but knowing what is expected will help. In the provisioning profile when viewed at developer.apple.com it has the APP ID listed as the 10 digit id followed by the bundle ID
but I sometimes see just the 10 digit app ID being used and sometimes the bundle ID. I know that it's up to me to figure out how to get it into the build, but knowing what it should be would be helpful.
On the other hand the text "Bundles with application identifiers in the provisioning profile ..." indicates that if the application identifier was not in the provisioning profile i might get away with it, but this might be grasping at straws.
If you have made it this far, thank you for reading.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
General
I do have background Modes added to Xcode. How can I fix this?
Automatic signing failed
Xcode failed to provision this target. Please file a bug report at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com and include the Update Signing report from the Report navigator.
Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: com.designoverhaul.bladerunner" doesn't include the com.apple.developer.background-modes entitlement.
I emailed Dev Support but they said they cant help.
Thank you.
I have been approved for family controls entitlements and see them in my apple certificates for my bundle identifier. I see them listed for Distribution in my Runner, however, when I try to distribute I get the error that I do not have the right permissions. Do I need to get the entitlements for each extension I have as well? I have three extensions that use the family controls.
I’m building an Electron app for macOS that I plan to distribute to users in a .dmg outside the Mac App Store. I have a Developer ID Application certificate (from Apple’s Developer Portal) and a private key, and I can see “Developer ID Certification Authority” in my System Roots keychain.
• My Developer ID Application certificate is in the login keychain, and it shows up under “My Certificates” with its private key.
• On Keychain, certificate shows red message "not trusted", but when I evaluate and check it specifically for codesigning it shows a green checkmark and success
• Developer ID Certification Authority is in System Roots.
• security find-identity -p codesigning – shows my certificate, but shows 0 valid identities
• Updated operating system and deleted and recreated a new certificate, still get the same issue
Hi all,
I’m trying to notarize a Flutter macOS app built in CI (GitHub Actions). The app builds and signs fine locally—codesign --verify --deep --strict and spctl --assess both pass. However, Apple’s notarization service consistently rejects the app with errors like:
The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate: file_picker.framework
The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate: file_saver.framework
The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate: url_launcher_macos.framework
What I’ve tried:
Explicitly re-signing all frameworks with my Developer ID Application certificate and --timestamp
Removing existing signatures before re-signing
Ensuring correct entitlements and bundle identifier
Matching the app bundle name and identifier in all places
Using both codesign --deep and manual signing of each binary
Local validation always passes, but notarization fails in CI
Certificate:
I am using a “Developer ID Application” certificate (not a “Mac Developer” or “Apple Development” certificate). The output of codesign -dvv for the problematic frameworks shows:
Authority=Developer ID Application: [My Name/Team] ([Team ID])
So I believe I am not making the common mistake of using the wrong certificate type.
CI Environment:
GitHub Actions, macos-latest runner
Flutter 3.27.2, stable channel
All secrets (cert, Apple ID, app-specific password, team ID) are set up
Questions:
Has anyone encountered this with Flutter plugins or CI builds?
Are there known issues with signing Flutter plugin frameworks for notarization?
Is there a way to get more detailed feedback from Apple’s notarization service?
Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. I’m happy to provide logs, scripts, or a minimal project if needed.
Thanks!
Trying to play around with Secure Enclave Protected keychain operations in a Tauri-based MacOS app and running into issues.
After much digging and trial and error, here is my understanding and where I'm at:
To access these keychain related APIs, the app must be codesigned, and have the following entitlements:
<key>com.apple.application-identifier</key>
<string>XXXXXXXXXX.com.myorg.myapp</string>
<key>com.apple.developer.team-identifier</key>
<string>XXXXXXXXXX</string>
<key>keychain-access-groups</key>
<array>
<string>XXXXXXXXXX.*</string>
</array>
Currently using a Development cert, generated from Xcode, not a paid account
I had to install the intermediate cert from https://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/
XXXXXXXXXX is the "Team ID", which can be found on my Development cert under Details > "Organizational Unit"
If I build the app and run it (without signing) I get code 34018
If I sign the app and try to run it, I am no longer able to boot it, with error:
The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 "Launch failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Launch failed., NSUnderlyingError=0x12a60a130 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=153 "Unknown error: 153" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Launchd job spawn failed}}}
Not quite sure what is missing - any help is much appreciated.
Is it possible to have some additional content at
Versions/A/
in a macOS Framework bundle that is not in any of the standard folders? Will there be any side-effects during signing and notarization? The reason is it'd be a lot easier in my use case to be able to put content here instead of the Resources folder.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
General
Product: macOS,
Notarization Tool: notarytool,
Stapler Tool: xcrun stapler,
Application: master-billing.app,
DMG: master-billing.dmg
I'm attempting to notarize and staple a macOS .dmg file containing a signed .app. Notarization completes successfully, but the stapling step fails with Error 65. All tools are up-to-date and I'm following the official Apple process.
#!/bin/bash
set -e
APP="dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.app"
DMG="dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg"
IDENTITY="Developer ID Application: NAME (TEAM ID)"
PROFILE="notarysiva"
VOLUME_NAME="MasterBilling"
Sign binaries and frameworks
find "$APP" -type f ( -name ".dylib" -or -name ".so" -or -name "*.node" -or -perm -u+x )
-exec codesign --force --options runtime --timestamp --sign "$IDENTITY" {} ;
find "$APP" -type d ( -name ".app" -or -name ".framework" )
-exec codesign --force --options runtime --timestamp --sign "$IDENTITY" {} ;
codesign --deep --force --options runtime --timestamp
--sign "$IDENTITY" "$APP"
Create DMG
hdiutil create -volname "$VOLUME_NAME" -srcfolder "$APP" -ov -format UDZO "$DMG"
Sign DMG
codesign --sign "$IDENTITY" --timestamp "$DMG"
Verify DMG signature
codesign --verify --verbose=2 "$DMG"
Submit for notarization
xcrun notarytool submit "$DMG" --keychain-profile "$PROFILE" --wait
Staple ticket
xcrun stapler staple -v "$DMG"
Signing all binaries, dylibs, and frameworks...
.
.
✅ App signing complete.
💽 Creating DMG...
......................................................................................
created: /Users/one/Documents/MASTER/bill-master/dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg
🔏 Signing the DMG...
✅ Verifying DMG signature...
dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg: valid on disk
dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg: satisfies its Designated Requirement
📤 Submitting DMG for notarization...
Conducting pre-submission checks for master-billing.dmg and initiating connection to the Apple notary service...
Submission ID received
id: 32927c3c-7459-42b4-a90c
Upload progress: 100.00% (123 MB of 123 MB)
Successfully uploaded file
id: 32927c3c-7459-42b4-a90c
path: /Users/one/Documents/MASTER/bill-master/dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg
Waiting for processing to complete.
Current status: Accepted............
Processing complete
id: 32927c3c-7459-42b4-a90c
status: Accepted
📌 Stapling notarization ticket to DMG...
Processing: /Users/one/Documents/MASTER/bill-master/dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg
.
.
.
Downloaded ticket has been stored at file:///var/folders/1l/ht34h5y11mv3rhv8dlxy_g4c0000gp/T/5bb9e667-dfe1-4390-8354-56ced7f48fa0.ticket.
Could not validate ticket for /Users/one/Documents/MASTER/bill-master/dist/mac-arm64/master-billing.dmg
The staple and validate action failed! Error 65.
Hi,
I'm getting error 65 upon stapling and I am suspecting that non-default trust settings may be the reason as outlined here:
Unfortunately whatever I do, I can't seem to reset the trust settings to their default values (removing the blue/white "+"), I'm not being asked for credentials upon closing the certificate window. I have also tried to unlock the System Roots key chain, to no avail.
Also, when running
security dump-trust-settings -d
I get
Number of trust settings : 0
for all certificates.
Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? Is there any other setting that may be involved?
Thanks!
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization