Bundle ID assigned to personal team rather than paid developer account

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Created Aug ’18

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I have used the bundle identifier "com.companyname.appName" in Xcode (using automaically managed signing) with a Personal Team for my apple ID until the membership enrollment process of the company developer account was completed.

However, now that I have paid for the membership and created a company developer account I am unable to use the same bundle id. It seems the bundle ID is permenantly assigned to the "Personal Team".

Is there any way to transfer the bundle Id to the paid account?

Note the following;

The apple id of the personal team has been added as an Admin in the company developer account
When I login to the developer portal with MY apple ID, I do not see any bundle IDs/provisioning profiles assigned to it.

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Answer 1

ldittel OP

Dec ’19

As I spent solid five hours trying to figure this out, here are my few notes.

It is not possible to do it online BUT you CAN give the apple developer support team a call and they CAN delete your existing personal account bundle ids for you to then freely assign to another account as you please.

It took a bit of explaning and the support chap had to talk to some senior staff but ultimately got it sorted in under two hours of waiting. I left a feature request with them to make it more obvious in XCode. So fingers crossed...

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Answer 2

Dipo OP

Jul ’20

I am using XCode 11.5

I resolved this issue by first selecting the personal team in the Xcode Siging & Capabilities section and changing the Bundle Identifier to another random identifier. Then I selected the paid team and set the Bundle Identifier to the preferred Bundle Identifier. Then I used the try agian button or re-create the Bundle Identifier and it worked.

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Answer 3

arlomedia OP

Mar ’21

I ran into this as a freelance developer after asking my client to add my Apple ID to his individual App Store account. I then used my Apple ID to log into Xcode, and when I had to select a team, I selected the "personal team" option. I didn't know what that meant, but it was the only option available. What I should have done instead was log into Xcode with his Apple ID, which is counterintuitive because the rise of 2-factor authentication trains us not to use someone else's login info. But apparently that is the only way for someone besides the account owner to add an app to an individual account.

(I could log into his App Store Connect account with my own Apple ID, but couldn't add an app that didn't already have an app ID created. And I couldn't log into his Provisioning Portal with my Apple ID to manually create the app ID, even though he gave me the maximum available permissions in his account.)

Anyway, I tried Dipo's trick a few times without success, then tried ldittel's suggestion, but via email instead of phone. The first Apple representative told me that deleting the bundle ID wasn't possible, then I wrote back and said I think it is and linked to this thread and then a second representative deleted it for me.

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