I've tried to notarize my app recently and got the error:{
"logFormatVersion": 1,
"jobId": "...",
"status": "Rejected",
"statusSummary": "Team is not yet configured for notarization",
"statusCode": 7000,
"archiveFilename": "myapp.dmg",
"uploadDate": "2019-06-20T06:24:53Z",
"sha256": "...",
"ticketContents": null,
"issues": null
}I've never heard about "team configuration for notarization" previously. What are the steps to resolve that issue?Thanks in advance.
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Notarization Rejects Valid Developer ID Certificates - Apple Infrastructure Issue?
Environment
macOS: 15.6.1
Xcode: 26.0.1
Architecture: arm64 (Apple Silicon)
Team ID: W----------
Certificate Status: Valid until 2030 (verified on developer.apple.com)
Problem
Apple's notarization service consistently rejected properly signed packages with error:
"The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate."
Despite:
✅ Valid certificates on developer.apple.com
✅ Local signing succeeds (codesign --verify passes)
✅ Proper certificate/key pairing verified
✅ Package structure correct
Failed Submission IDs
September 2025:
adeeed3d-4732-49c6-a33c-724da43f9a4a
5a910f51-dc6d-4a5e-a1c7-b07f32376079
3930147e-daf6-4849-8b0a-26774fd92c3c
b7fc8e4e-e03c-44e1-a68e-98b0db38aa39
d7dee4a1-68e8-44b5-85e9-05654425e044
da6fa563-ba21-4f9e-b677-80769bd23340
What I've Tried
Re-downloaded fresh certificates from Apple Developer Portal
Verified certificate chain locally
Tested with multiple different builds
Confirmed Team ID matches across all configurations
Verified no unsigned nested components
Waited 3 months for potential propagation delays
Verified all agreements are current and accepted
Re-tested with minimal test package - same error persists
Local Verification
# Certificates present and valid
security find-identity -v -p codesigning | grep "Developer ID"
1) XXXXXXXXXX "Developer ID Application: <<REDACTED>> (W----------)"
2) XXXXXXXXXX "Developer ID Installer: <<REDACTED>> (W----------)"
# Signing succeeds
codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 [app] → Success
Question
This appears similar to thread #784184. After 3 months and ensuring all agreements are signed, the issue persists with identical error.
The certificates work for local signing but Apple's notarization service rejects them. Could this be:
Backend infrastructure issue with Team ID W----------?
Certificate not properly registered in Apple's notarization database?
Known issue requiring Apple Support intervention?
Has anyone else experienced valid Developer ID certificates being rejected specifically by the notarization service while working locally?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
Tags:
App ID
Notarization
Signing Certificates
Code Signing
Hi
First, I hope I'm in the right place, I'm not certain. I'm having my first attempt at IOS development and want to see the progress I've made on my phone. I plugged it in to my Mac and selected it as a preview device and got the following messages in the Signing & Capabilities screen:
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/
No profiles for '...' were found: Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching '...'.
My account and personal team are shown in the Xcode settings, but it says 0 Provisioned Devices. I also tried restarting, and enabled developer mode on the phone. I checked the provided link, but saw nowhere to add a device ID. Clearly I don't understand what I'm doing. Can anyone help me make sense of this?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Hello everyone,
I am developing a Flutter iOS application that includes a Widget Extension + Live Activity (ActivityKit).
The project runs successfully on the iOS simulator when
launched directly from Xcode, but it cannot be signed properly via Flutter and I cannot upload the build to App Store Connect due to the following CodeSign error:
Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code
Provisioning profile "…" doesn't include the entitlement:
com.apple.developer.activitykit.allow-third-party-activity
This error never goes away no matter what I try.
And the main problem is that my App ID does NOT show any ActivityKit or Live Activity capability in the Apple Developer portal → Identifiers → App ID.
So I cannot enable it manually.
However:
Xcode requires this entitlement
Flutter requires this entitlement
When I add the entitlement manually in the .entitlements file, Xcode says:
“This entitlement must be enabled in your Developer account. It cannot be added manually.”
So I am stuck in a loop where:
Apple Developer portal does not show ActivityKit capability
Xcode demands the ActivityKit entitlement
Signing fails
App Store upload fails
And Live Activity is a critical feature of my app
What I have already done
✔ “Automatically manage signing” is enabled
✔ Correct Team is selected for both Runner and the Widget Extension
✔ Bundle IDs are correct:
com.yksbuddy.app
com.yksbuddy.app.TimerWidgetExtension
✔ Deleted Derived Data completely
✔ Tried removing all ActivityKit-related entitlement keys manually
✔ Deleted Pods, reinstalled, rebuilt
✔ App Group settings match between Runner and Extension
✔ The same Live Activity code works perfectly in a clean Xcode-only project
✔ But fails only inside a Flutter project structure
✔ Xcode builds & runs on simulator, but App Store upload always fails due to missing entitlement
Core Problem:
In my Apple Developer “Identifiers → App ID” page, the Live Activity / ActivityKit capability does NOT appear at all, so I cannot enable:
Live Activities
ActivityKit
Third-party activity entitlement
Without being able to enable this capability, I cannot create a valid provisioning profile that includes:
com.apple.developer.activitykit.allow-third-party-activity
Flutter + Xcode insists this entitlement must exist, but Apple Developer portal does not give any option to enable it.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Tags:
WidgetKit
ActivityKit
Entitlements
I want to use the com.apple.vm.networking entitlement which has a note:
This entitlement is restricted to developers of virtualization software. To request this entitlement, contact your Apple representative.
https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/ says:
« Request entitlements using entitlement forms and ask for status updates in the resulting email thread. » but I haven't been able to find these "entitlement forms". Does anyone know what the right process is to request an entitlement?
Hi all,
I'm a solo iOS developer trying to update an app I released in 2010. My current Team ID is Q37598Q8GE, but the app's original App ID uses an old prefix, YHX995W43P.
When I try to create a new App ID with the original Bundle ID (eu.andela.woordenes) to generate a new distribution provisioning profile, I get the error:An attribute in the provided entity has invalid value An App ID with Identifier 'eu.andela.woordenes' is not available. Please enter a different string. I understand this might be due to the old prefix from pre-2011, when Apple allowed multiple prefixes per account.
I still have access to the app in App Store Connect and want to push an update, not create a new app. How can I resolve this?Can I reuse the existing App ID (eu.andela.woordenes with prefix YHX995W43P) for a new provisioning profile, or do I need to match my current Team ID (Q37598Q8GE)?
If the Bundle ID is already taken by my current app, how do I update the app without changing the Bundle ID? Any steps to fix the prefix mismatch in Xcode or App Store Connect?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Is the Notary service unavailable again? The system-status page shows it as being green but I am back to receiving the same error as previously which fixed itself once the notary service went green again and I am unable to notarize and staple my Distribution PKG.
During the release of our macOS App, we encountered the following issue:
We need to support dynamic code loading of WebAssembly (wasm) inside our App, mainly by loading WebAssembly (wasm) binary modules.
We discovered a problem: a wasm file is neither an executable nor a bundle, so it cannot be code-signed.
Since our App needs to pass notarization, we have not set the com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory entitlement.
Without setting com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory, loading a wasm module results in an “unsigned code” error that causes the process to crash.
Could you please advise on what we should do to avoid this problem? Is it possible to apply for a special entitlement to allow com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory?
Coming from Windows, I'm finding Mac app packaging farcically complicated, to the level of a Python sketch.
I mastered Windows packaging, via Inno, in an hour or so, but it has taken me, on and off, the best part of a week to get to the point I am at with the Mac OS, and I'm nowhere near finished (rather, it hasn't finished with me).
Every time I surmount one hurdle, another pops up, seemingly just for the jollies.
I'm currently stuck at:
'Error: HTTP status code: 403. A required agreement is missing or has expired. This request requires an in-effect agreement that has not been signed or has expired. Ensure your team has signed the necessary legal agreements and that they are not expired.'
My account lists no agreements in this category.
I understand the need for security, but not the labyrinthine nature of the process.
An inner-party member in the former Soviet Union overheard a drunken Stalin say, “I trust no one; not even myself".
Apple trusts no one, but has true contempt for developers.
Is there a simple way to work through the packaging process?
Let me rephrase that: please God, let there be a simpler way of working through the process!
Regards, in extremis,
Richard
In the LightweightCodeRequirements framework, there is a LaunchCodeRequirement object which can be used as a requirement object for a Process for example.
What I don't understand (I admit my macOS low-level knowledge is limited) is that how can this be used in a secure way that doesn't fall victim of a Time-of-Check/Time-of-Use issue.
e.g.
I specify a LaunchCodeRequirement via Process.launchRequirement for my process, let's say /usr/local/bin/mycommandlinetool.
The LaunchCodeRequirement specifies my development team and a developer ID certificate.
The process must be started in some form, before a SecCode/SecTask object can be created, rather than a SecStaticCode object (which only guarantees its validity checks to be intact as long as the file is not modified).
But if the process was started, then I have no tools in my set to prevent it from executing its initialization code or similar. Then, by the time I'm able to check via SecCode/SecTask functions the LaunchCodeRequirement, I might have already ran malicious code - if mycommandlinetool was maliciously replaced.
Or does the operating system use a daemon to copy the executable specified for Process to a secure location, then creates the SecStaticCode object, assesses the LaunchCodeRequirement and if passed, launches the executable from that trusted location (which would make sure it is immutable for replacement by malicious actors)?
I have a hard time understanding how this works under the hood - if I remember correctly these are private APIs.
Is it possible to directly distribute a macOS app with a Developer ID Certificate that belongs to a different team?
I am trying to resolve issues that arise when distributing a macOS app with a Network Extension (Packet Tunnel) outside the App Store using a Developer ID Certificate from a different team than the app’s provisioning profiles and entitlements.
I started by attempting Direct Distribution in Xcode with automatic signing. However, it fails with the following message:
Provisioning profile "Mac Team Direct Provisioning Profile: ” failed qualification checks: Profile doesn't match the entitlements file's value for the com.apple.developer.networking.networkextension entitlement.
I suspect the issue is that the provisioning profile allows "packet-tunnel-provider-systemextension", whereas the entitlements generated by Xcode contain "packet-tunnel-provider". When I manually modify the .entitlements file to include the -systemextension suffix, the project fails to build because Xcode does not recognize the modified entitlement. If there is a workaround for this issue, please let me know.
Due to these issues, I resorted to manually creating a signed and notarized app. My process is as follows:
Export the .app from the Xcode archive.
Since the exported .app does not contain the necessary entitlements or provisioning profile for direct distribution, I replace Contents/embedded.provisioningprofile in both the .app and the .appex network extension.
Sign the app and its components in the following order:
codesign --force --options runtime --timestamp --sign "Developer ID Application: <name>" <app>.app/Contents/Frameworks/<fw>.framework/
codesign --force --options runtime --timestamp --sign "Developer ID Application: <name>"<app>.app/Contents/PlugIns/<netext>.appex/Contents/Frameworks/<fw>.framework/Versions/A/<fw>
codesign --force --options runtime --entitlements dist-vpn.entitlements --timestamp --sign "Developer ID Application: <name>" <app>.app/Contents/PlugIns/<netext>.appex/
codesign --force --options runtime --entitlements dist.entitlements --timestamp --sign "Developer ID Application: <name>" <app>.app
Verify the code signature:
codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=4 <app>.app
- <app>.app: valid on disk
- <app>.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement
Create a ZIP archive using:
ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc --keepParent <app>.app <app>.zip
Notarize the app with notarytool and staple it.
The notarization completes successfully with errors: nil.
Package the notarized app into a DMG, notarize, and staple the DMG.
The app runs successfully on the development machine. However, when moved to another machine and placed in /Applications, it fails to open. Inspecting Console.app reveals Gatekeeper is blocking the launch:
taskgated-helper <bundleid>: Unsatisfied entitlements: com.apple.developer.networking.networkextension, com.apple.developer.team-identifier taskgated-helper entitlements: { "com.apple.developer.networking.networkextension" = ("packet-tunnel-provider-systemextension"); "com.apple.developer.team-identifier" = <teamid>; }
As mentioned earlier, the Developer ID Certificate used for signing belongs to a different team. We are a third-party developer and do not have access to the Developer ID Certificate of the team assigned as the team-identifier.
When I changed the bundle identifier (app ID), team, entitlements, and provisioning profiles to match the team associated with the Developer ID Certificate, the app worked.
My question is:
Is this failure caused by using a Developer ID Certificate from a different team, or should it still work if the provisioning profiles and entitlements are correctly set? Could there be an issue elsewhere in the provisioning profiles or entitlements for the original app ID?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Tags:
Network Extension
Gatekeeper
Code Signing
Developer ID
Hi,
after 2 years of not updating my app on appstore i wanted to submit an update for my iOS app which also containts a watch app target.
When i try to submit it to upload it i get the following errors:
Failed registering bundle identifier
The app identifier "(myappBundleID).watchkitapp" cannot be registered to your development team because it is nit available. Change your bundle identifier to a unique string to try again.
No Profiles for "(myappBundleID).watchkitapp" were found.
Xcode culdn't find any iOS App Store provisining profiles matching "(myappBundleID).watchkitapp"
Since i have my app already in store with that bundle identifier i don't know why it can not be registered to my team. Also i don't want to change the bundle identifier because then i can not publish it as update to store.
Hello,
I am trying to publish a simple app to the App Store for the first time, and I am getting these 2 errors.
Please note the knowledge base URLs shown in the screenshot are not clickable. I think this should be addressed.
Any guidance on how to correct these issues will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Anis
I’m unable to notarize the executable and the .app — the status has been showing “In Progress” for over an hour. Upon checking the xcrun logs, it indicates that the submission ID was not received. I also noticed there’s an Apple Developer Service outage reported since October 8, 2025. Could you please let me know when this outage is expected to be resolved? It would be very helpful.
The actual error:
pkgbuild: error: Could not find appropriate signing identity for “Developer ID installer: My Name (DeveloperID)”.
I'm trying to sign a program written with gfortran. The steps worked the last time (Mar 23) I built this code.
The steps to error:
a) xcrun notarytool store-credentials --apple-id "xxx" --team-id "yyy"
Giving Profile Name zzz and App-specific password
b) codesign --force --timestamp --options=runtime -s "Developer ID Application: My Name (yyy)" AppName
c) pkgbuild --root ROOT --identifier org.aaa.bbb --version "1.1.1" --sign "Developer ID installer: My Name (yyy)" AppName.pkg
ROOT contains the package contents
At this point I get the error
pkgbuild: error: Could not find appropriate signing identity for “Developer ID installer: My Name (yyy)”
Are there steps that have changed. Any suggestions?
Thanks, David
The device UDID was registered to the developer account 40 hours ago, the STATUS column was "processing" in the first 24 hours, then turned to empty.
But I still can't run my app (with distribution method "development"), when I try to run it after download it through my OTA URL, it prompts “the app cannot be installed because its integrity could not be verified” but everything runs good on a iPhone which was registered a month ago.
What should I do now? keep waiting?
I am receiving an entitlement error from stripe terminal SDK when integrating Tap to Pay from apple in the info.plist.
Im hoping that someone can give me their input on my error output rather than diving into the stripe sdk to point me in the right direction of something I may have missed with entitlements.
I have been approved for tap to pay entitlement and am following the instructions here from apple: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/proximityreader/setting-up-the-entitlement-for-tap-to-pay-on-iphone
com.apple.developer.proximity-reader.tap-to-pay
We were recently approved for the "User Assigned Device Name" for a specific app Identifier. The "Additional Capabilities" tab isn't present on that App ID. I am an admin in the developer portal, and this does not appear for the account holder as well. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi - appreciate your help in advance!
Building a simple habit tracking app.
I got approval for FamilyControls distribution.
After creating a new provisioning profile with those capabilities enabled, when I try and build in xcode (16.4) using that Profile I get an error stating:
"Provisioning profile "CreateMoreFamilyControlsv2" doesn't include the com.apple.developer.deviceactivity and com.apple.developer.deviceactivity.reporting entitlements"
I've confirmed bundle identifier matches, Team etc
Similarly when i do automatic signing see 3rd screenshot.
Not sure what to do at this point, I've heard deviceActivity is automatically applied when family controls is approved but still running into this issue.
Hi,
I just released a new version of an app that was transferred from another developer account.
The previous version of this app used the App Groups feature to store some important data, and I would like to retrieve that data.
In the new version, I’m using the same bundle identifier and the same App Group ID (which has already been deleted from the original developer account). I also added the App Groups entitlement in the project settings and set the same App Group ID. However, I still cannot access the data in the App Group.
From the documentation and issues I’ve found, it seems that an app should still have permission to access the same App Group after being transferred.
Did I miss something?
Thanks!
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Entitlements
Tags:
Files and Storage
iOS
Entitlements
Provisioning Profiles