I am not enrolled in the Apple developer program and need to create a small Safari app extension helper that will be shared with my colleagues within the company. Is it somehow possible for me to distribute the app in some way without forcing everyone to disable a gatekeeper?

I have recently upgraded to macOS 14 and Xcode 15. I gather codesign --deep no longer works. Do I have to explicitly codesign every file in my .app? There are several hundreds of them. Also, I am able to successfully codesign my executable (MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyExecutable), but when I upload for Notarization, it fails with "The signature of the binary is invalid.", identifying the executable specifically. This used to work fine. Why is it failing now?

I know there is a quite a few costs and licenses required for post apps to the App Store. I am interested in only developing apps for my own phone to see if this is something I want to venture into. Is there a way (or online resources) that allow me to develop just for myself and install on my phone to experiment with? It does not make much sense if I have to purchase a developer license and all the other requirements if I am just experimenting, and being limited solely to the Xcode simulator is only half the experience. Thoughts? and any help would be appreciated.

Hello guys, I've been dealing with one error in my xcode cloud configuration. I want to auto-deploy the app version to Testflight on something is merged to main branch. Of course if I do at my local environment it works perfect. But when I try to execute it at XCode Cloud I've got this error. I really don't have any idea about how to fix it. Thanks a lot for your time 😊 Invalid Signature. The main app bundle SyncTion at path SyncTion.app has following signing error(s): valid on disk SyncTion.app: does not satisfy its designated Requirement SyncTion.app: explicit requirement satisfied . Refer to the Code Signing and Application Sandboxing Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html and Technical Note 2206 at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html for more information.

Hello, I'm create an app using QT on MacOs with Generate to Xcode, when submitting it to the App Store the upload process was successful but I got email feedback with the message containing the following: ITMS-90238: Invalid Signature - The main app bundle Tren at path Tren.app has following signing error(s): a sealed resource is missing or invalid . Refer to the Code Signing and Application Sandboxing Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html and Technical Note 2206 at https://developer.apple .com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html for more information. ITMS-90296: App sandbox not enabled - The following executables must include the 'com.apple.security.app-sandbox' entitlement with a Boolean value of true in the entitlements property list: [[Tren.app/Contents/MacOS/Tren ]] Refer to App Sandbox page at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app_sandbox for more information on sandboxing your app. I've done the methods available in the community, but it still doesn't work. I hope someone will provide a solution, thank you

We're distributing an XCFramework to a customer to create their own apps. With the new XCFramework signing requirements, we have a question with regards the way how to implement it. We're using a few of the frameworks on the list https://developer.apple.com/support/third-party-SDK-requirements/ including [AFNetworking], as a dependencies for our framework. We are building those frameworks from source code and not using any binaries provided by any third-party. We also modify the open source code, so that it is different from the original open source code in a way so that it won't lead to runtime conflicts in case the customers is including similar frameworks in their application. We're using those derivatives of the open source frameworks as a statically linked libraries to our SDK. Questions: Do we need to sign the third party frameworks of which we have cloned source code and using it within our SDK Framework? Is it required that the XCFramework built this way is signed when it is delivered to a third party and they use it in their app?

Older internet entries say there were free accounts we could use. I'm trying to create my .ipa apple installation file without using a payable developer account. In my case, I wisht to create the file for my own personal use. Is there a way to get a free developer account? I have tried by going to https://developer.apple.com/ and for individuals, payment is required. It's been many days since I sent questions to apple and no reply has been received. What can I do?

The entire error is: "Failed retrieving request UUID for upload. You may have outstanding agreements to sign on App Store Connect." Logging into App Store Connect and the Agreements are all marked "Active". There are no account notifications on either App Store or developer.apple.com to indicate something is out of date. This is in XCode performing: Archive. Then in Archive window "Distribute App", "Developer ID", "Upload" From net searching I tried: restarting XCode, rebooting the machine, and in 'Preferences" removing and then adding in my account. Nothing worked. Any ideas? Montery 12.0.1 XCode 13.1

I am having trouble submitting the next build of my macOS app to the App Store Connect. I keep getting a variation of this error: ITMS-90238: Invalid Signature - The main app bundle MyApp at path MyApp.app has following signing error(s): code has no resources but signature indicates they must be present In subcomponent: MyApp.app/Contents/Frameworks/GoogleAppMeasurement.framework . Refer to the Code Signing and Application Sandboxing Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html and Technical Note 2206 at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html for more information. ITMS-90238: Invalid Signature - The main app bundle MyApp at path MyApp.app has following signing error(s): code has no resources but signature indicates they must be present In subcomponent: MyApp.app/Contents/Frameworks/GoogleAppMeasurementIdentitySupport.framework . Refer to the Code Signing and Application Sandboxing Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html and Technical Note 2206 at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html for more information. ITMS-90238: Invalid Signature - The main app bundle MyApp at path MyAppt.app has following signing error(s): code has no resources but signature indicates they must be present In subcomponent: MyApp.app/Contents/Frameworks/FirebaseAnalytics.framework . Refer to the Code Signing and Application Sandboxing Guide at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html and Technical Note 2206 at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html for more information. I am using Firebase framework as a Swift package. I tried updating Swift package to the latest version and that didn't help. I also tried to revert to the last version that was successfully used on the App Store/TestFlight and that didn't help. I have no control over this framework other than not use it or choose a specific version. I also tried to export the app and use the Transporter app and that didn't help. Any suggestions?

Hi, I created a developer id certification from my apple developer account a couple of year ago and downloaded it as .cer file into my Laptop. Now I want to use this certificate to sign my application, but unfortunately Xcode shows an error message like 'Missing Private Key" and I can also see that there is no private key under my developer id certificate(there is no grey arrow to expand to see private cer) in keychain access. Moreover my developer account is expired and I do not want to extend it yet so unfortunately no solutions with apple developer account will work like creating a new certification etc. Do you have any other solutions like using Keychain Access or Xcode to link my private key again into my developer id certificate? Note: 1-.cer file was created on my laptop by me, which I am using now. So I would expected that the related private key should already exist in my Keychain Access(if I did not delete it mistakenly.) but I do not know which private key is the relevant one, I have several of them. 2-I have also a CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest file which was copied near my .cer file. Maybe it could be useful for a solution? 3-No! unfortunately I do not have any .p12 file. 4-I had already installed current AppleWWDRCAG3 file before I import my .cer file into my Keychain Access Tool. 5-Get Info shows that my cer file is still valid till sep 2025. 6- I have already restarted my Xcode and laptop. 7-I tried all solutions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12867878/missing-private-key-in-the-distribution-certificate-on-keychain 8-https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/ shows me no certificate with the reason that my membership expired 9-I removed and re-added my apple account into Xcode. the same error occurred. XCODE:Version 15.3 (15E204a) OSX:macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 Thanks a lot in advance.

I am receiving an error message trying to upload an update for my macOS app to App Store Connect that I do not understand: "Cannot be used with TestFlight because the signature for the bundle at “YourApp.app” 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". I have double-checked, and the nbunde identifier in the profile matches that in the Info.plist, and I have, in addition, now passed it via "--identifier" to code sign for the app bundle as well, but the error remains. Where else would the identifier be needed, and has this changed recently? (I last uploaded this app a year ago, w/o issues, and made no relevant changes). I am using a custom toolchain and not Xcode to build the app bundle and installer. codesign -dvvv also reports the correct the bundle identifier back as expected. any suggestions?

According to the new requirements for binary XCFrameworks they should be code signed. I watched the WWDC23 video 10061-Verify app dependencies with digital signatures and while it helpfully provides the command to sign the framework after building, it doesn’t mention how to sign it when your distribution certificates are of the Cloud managed kind, and therefore not actually in the macOS Keychain. My question is how can I sign a binary XCFramework when the only distribution certificate we have is in the cloud? I am a part of a team in App Store Connect, if that’s relevant. Thanks 🙌

I have a macOS app which contains a dext. I'd like to distribute it to external testers using TestFlight, so it has to pass Mac App Store review. It failed, because the App Sandbox entitlement was missing. I checked the app, it has the entitlement, but the dext does not. However, the .entitlements file used by the dext does contain App Sandbox set to true. I tried adding a "fake-entitlement" value to the .entitlements file, and that made it into the dext's code signature, but the App Sandbox entitlement appears to be stripped out by the build process? For a dext target, it isn't possible to add the App Sandbox capability in Xcode's Signing and Capability section. I have to add the entitlement manually in the .entitlement file (or it was put there by the Xcode driver template, I don't remember). I've tried clean building several times, I've tried Xcode 15.0.1, 15.2 and 15.3, but the result is always the same. I'm inspecting the entitlements using codesign -dvvv --entitlements - Does anyone know what I can do to put the App Sandbox entitlement into my dext's signature? Is this happening to anyone else?

Are mergeable libraries compatible with digital signatures and privacy manifests? If so, what happens to the privacy manifests from each merged library? Do they get merged?

Hi All, We use a small group of Mac mini units running VMs for our Apple CI system. Since you can't login to an Apple ID on an Apple Silicon VM we wanted to use an App Store Connect API token to handle all the authentication for us. In the past this has not worked but I wanted to see if it could now. The answer is no, you can not use an API token with Developer ID Cloud certificates. The reason is that, even on an Admin role token, the DevID certificates are not enabled by default. When you are using an Apple ID this is no big deal as you can check the box to allow access, but with tokens they are minted with only the default settings for the role. This means that the option for Access to Cloud Managed Developer ID Certificates is always disabled and you can't enable it. If we could continue logging in with an Apple ID we could stumble along with that still, but even this ability is gone on AS VMs. Right now this pretty much means that we either give up on using stateless VMs to build or we go back to manually managing all of our code signing materials. The longer term solution would be to move to Xcode Cloud, but that will take us quite some time. I filed FB13687073 to see if there is any way to create a token that can use this checkbox.

We use CocoaPods to manage third-party SDKs, so how should we sign and use these third-party SDKs

Hello, I am setting up a build (Gitlab CICD) runner. I create a keychain and imported certificate and my signing key. $ security find-identity -v XXXXXX "Developer ID Application: XXXXXX, INC. (XXXXXX)" (CSSMERR_TP_NOT_TRUSTED) 1 valid identities found $ security find-identity -p codesigning -v XXXXXX "Developer ID Application: XXXXXX, INC. (XXXXXX)" 1 valid identities found Codesign fails with unable to build chain to self-signed root for signer "Developer ID Application: XXXXXX, INC. (XXXXXX)" errSecInternalComponent On the local machine everything is fine. I think the point is that the identity is both valid and CSSMERR_TP_NOT_TRUSTED. What can I do about it?

I have a shell script that turns a framework into a plain dylib and updates some dependent library paths using install_name_tool. It works, but if the framework was signed, I get warnings like: install_name_tool: warning: changes being made to the file will invalidate the code signature in: [redacted].dylib (for architecture x86_64) I thought I could get rid of the warning by adding codesign --remove-signature dylib-path to the script before using install_name_tool, but then I get errors like install_name_tool: fatal error: file not in an order that can be processed (link edit information does not fill the __LINKEDIT segment): [redacted].dylib (for architecture x86_64) Is there a way to fix this?

The current structure of my SDK xcframework is XXXX-Release.xcframework. Inside that, I have an XXXX.xcframework and a LICENSE.md file. Currently, this structure works fine in Swift Package Manager, dropping the XXXX-Release.xcframework file into Xcode and CocoaPods. When I sign my xcframework as per Apple's requirements, I need to sign XXXX.xcframework, which is on the second level. Signing this works fine. Will this meet Apple's requirements for signing an xcframework? I just want to make sure the current structure of my SDK does not need to change. Thanks

Hi, we are working on an application which will perform scheduled backup tasks in macOS 14. The app has been granted full disk permission. Recently we updated the code signing for the executable (/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp below) for passing the new notarization. After that, we found launchctl unable to load the plist for the schedule job <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <key>Label</key> <string>com.MyApp.scheduler</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp</string> <string>/Applications/MyApp.app</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>AbandonProcessGroup</key> <true/> <key>WorkingDirectory</key> <string>/Applications/MyApp.app/bin</string> </dict> </plist> Related error message found in /var/log/com.apple.xpc.launchd/launchd.log* 2023-12-13 13:59:34.639672 (system/com.MyApp.scheduler [13434]) <Notice>: internal event: SOURCE_ATTACH, code = 0 2023-12-13 13:59:34.644530 (system/com.MyApp.scheduler [13434]) <Error>: Service could not initialize: posix_spawn(/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp), error 0x1 - Operation not permitted 2023-12-13 13:59:34.644545 (system/com.MyApp.scheduler [13434]) <Error>: initialization failure: 23C64: xpcproxy + 38300 [1097][925DE4E7-0589-3B33-BB64-7BC2F8629897]: 0x1 2023-12-13 13:59:34.644548 (system/com.MyApp.scheduler [13434]) <Notice>: internal event: INIT, code = 1 2023-12-13 13:59:34.644915 (system/com.MyApp.scheduler [13434]) <Notice>: xpcproxy exited due to exit(78) We have tried to update the entitlements for library and main executable files while still not success on make it works again. We have no idea what else could do for troubleshooting this. <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <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.cs.allow-dyld-environment-variables</key> <true/> <key>com.apple.security.cs.debugger</key> <true/> <key>com.apple.application-identifier</key> <string>...</string> <key>com.apple.developer.team-identifier</key> <string>...</string> </dict> </plist> Appreciate for any suggestions. Thank you.