Xcode 8 provisioning profile won't download

Question

I recently updated to Xcode 8 and as I click on "download" option next to provisioning profile in Xcode/Preferences/Accounts/View Details menu it changes to gray and does not download. After restarting Xcode the download button is again clickable and the problem persists. Manual download of provisioning profile and dropping on Xcode icon don't add the profile to specific developer account in Xcode 8. Anyone had this problem recently and solved it? I checked all questions related to new Xcode version, still no solution.

Answer 1

I solved it by creating my own development certificate (In Xcode) and assigning it in the development provisioning profile. After I download and double click it I was able to get it working fine.

Answer 2

I had the same issue. I leave the solution that worked for me:

I deleted all certificates that were expired from my keyChain, I noticed that the new certificates didn't download because I had an expired certificate related. I don't know why it seems to be an issue of my keyChain/iTunes

Answer 3

For me it helped to Import Profile in XCode in General Settings:

Answer 4

The answer is here.

Its doesn't sound much but it really worked for me.

Just right click on the provision profile and click on Show in finder. Then delete all the provision profile in the entire folder.

Not goto Xcode project settings and Check the checkbox, Automatically manager signing. The xcode will do the rest for you.

Answer 5

Actually, all provided solutions could work or not, it depends on your luck, but mainly you have to keep delete account, clean up provision profiles like "mogile_oli"'s answer, and re-add them, but also, don't forget to reset signing identities:

Accounts -> Select Added Account -> Select Team and View Details (or double click team name) -> you will see Reset button if needed, click on it,

And you really need to try to build with Automatic Signing first then remove it, it seems can't be downloaded with button, for now just ignore the download button from this page, but better to use the dialogs while you try to build.

And always Quit Xcode and Re-open it after almost each action you do, After wasting like 2 days, I made it work like this !

Answer 6

I've had this issue too, and have had some success with renaming the profile. For example, it used to be named "[App Name] Dev", and no matter what I did, renewing, deleting and recreating with the same name, manually installing it, it just would not work at all. Until I renamed the profile to "[App Name] Development".

Answer 7

In my case (Xamarin.iOS btw) I've manually deleted all provisioning profiles located in HOME/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles but I needed to do something else to be able to deploy the app to a device:

The problem was that I had implemented the brand new iOS 10 Push Notifications Framework, which requires the addition of the following property to the Entitlements.plist:

<key>aps-environment</key>
<string>development</string>

And I was trying to deploy a development version using the value production instead of development. Changing that value did the trick.

Answer 8

I got around it by unchecking and rechecking:

Project Settings -> General -> Signing -> 'Automatically manage signing'

Answer 9

I was having this same issue. Here is what I did that solved the problem for me.

• First I right clicked on each of the two profiles that would "grey-non-download" and moved to trash.
• Then I deleted the developer account within Xcode.
• I re-added the developer account, went back to details and download all.

It worked for me, hope this helps.

Answer 10

Note that this UI in Xcode is a convenience and shouldn't block your work. The profiles you'd like to download are still available following these steps:

1. Visit developer.apple.com in Safari
2. Click Account and sign in
3. Click on Ceritficates, Identifiers, and Profiles
4. Navigate to the profile you're interested in and download it
5. Drag the downloaded profile onto Xcode's icon in the dock.

At this point, your profile will be installed on your Mac and usable within Xcode.

For the OP — if manually installing the profile this way didn't resolve the issue, then you're likely seeing another configuration problem or a bug. Could you clarify what you saw after you manually installed the profile and selected it in the General tab — did you get a build error or other issue?

Answer 11

I've come across same problem and nothing solved it, so i found one work around

1. Download provisioning profile directly from developer account and double tap on it, it will get install in xcode.
2. Download and install iPhone configuration utility.
3. Open iPhone configuration utility there you will find all the provisioning profile
4. Then select the provisioning profile you want to use, then it details of the profile you can see Profile identifier.
5. Copy that Profile identifier and open xcode.
6. Navigate to the code signing identity and there in provisioning profile select others and paste the copied Profile identifier.
7. Bingo!

Answer 12

In mu case the issue started appearing after I added Push capability(I checked the push notification toggle button in target->capabilities) If I go and uncheck that then I can build and upload to app store.

Answer 13

I'm seeing the same issue where the download button is grayed but the download never seems to complete.

I manually deleted all the profiles in finder and clicked on download. Even if the download doesn't seem to complete, the profile is still downloaded...

You can check out your profiles in finder at

HOME/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles

Answer 14

Try deleting and adding your account if that doesn't work out

try

Open Terminal

Type defaults delete com.apple.Xcode and press "Enter." This deletes the customised settings set up.

Type rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode and press "Enter." This removes the configuration folders as well.

This saved my day if problem persists again reinstall Xcode