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John Carter
John Carter

Reputation: 7005

How do you update a provisioning profile after adding more people?

I can't figure out how to get Xcode to update my provisioning profile after adding more users/devices.

Say I have profile A with people a,b,c in it, and then I add d,e to profile A, how do get them to show with the profile I'm using to create an adhoc build from organizer.

I've tried:

File -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Details and hitting the 'refresh' button on the page of signing identifies and provisioning profiles.

When creating the adhoc build, on the Dropdown list I've tried 'refresh code signing identity...' with no avail.

Thankfully I can update the profile manually via TestFlight, but I'd prefer not to do this, and feel like there is something obvious I'm missing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1148

Answers (2)

Meng-Yuan Huang
Meng-Yuan Huang

Reputation: 2333

One of my Xcode project uses an Xcode managed provisioning profile. I set GitHub Actions for the repo to build Ad Hoc IPAs. Unfortunately, xcodebuild usually used cached provisioning profiles even if specify -allowProvisioningUpdates.

By my experiments, xcodebuild always used cached profiles during 20 minutes after I added a new test device on developer.apple.com.

Fortunately, I find a way to force update Xcode managed profiles by deleting cached ones before running xcodebuild. Try this line in your CI/CD script:

rm -f ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/Provisioning\ Profiles/*.mobileprovision

Upvotes: 0

andrewbuilder
andrewbuilder

Reputation: 3799

Try this process...

In your Developer Account (developer.apple.com)

  1. Log in
  2. Select the Member Centre
  3. Select the section titled Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
  4. Under the section titled iOS Apps, select Devices
  5. Check that the new user's device is included in the list.

In Xcode:

  1. Select the menu item Xcode > Preferences
  2. Select the Preferences tab > Accounts
  3. Against your Apple ID used for development, select the button View Details
  4. In the Account Details pop-up window, select the refresh icon in the bottom left corner

Your provisioning profiles should be updated, however I have found in the past that this process sometimes does not complete immediately ( a matter of 5 to 15 minutes).

Upvotes: 2

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