Dear developers,
after a lot of phone calls with the Developer team at Apple I’m now trying to find my luck here.
im a software engineer, developing apps for iOS and macOS for a couple of years.
So for my latest customer who have an app already available on the App Store. They wanted me to develop an app update whilst the old developer did not agree to do so.
Now at the end of developing I’ve tried to upload the update to the App Store. I’ve developed the app under my own developer account and finally changed it to the customer‘s one, including the change of the bundle identifier to prepare everything.
At this Point, everything went well and I was still able to deploy the app with the new account and new bundle id to my physical devices.
But when it comes to Archiving and Deploying the app to the store, I’m getting code signing errors (tried „Product -> Archive“ in XCode which is the normal way to upload an app). Here I need to enter my password for the macOS user, but the code signing error still appears.
After lot of research I thought why not open up the Keychain Access App on macOS and delete the certificates that I’ve created (or were created automatically by the system/XCode when signing in with the customer’s developer account).
Long story short: Keychain app crashes immediately after opening it. I’m not able to delete/create/manage any certificates.
I don’t even get an error message, like the typical „app crash report“.
even removing the account from XCode does not help.
Some guys from Apple guided me through some commands while resetting and reinstalling macOS.
Without re-adding the customer’s account, everything works fine with Keychain. But again, when adding the account to sign and upload the app, it repeats over and over.
Apple told me that it’s likely not a problem with the customer’s account, but the above described things are really strange.
What could be the problem? I am not able to upload the update to the Store and Keychain keeps crashing.
Anybody here with a solution?
some information:
thanks!
Sebastian
after a lot of phone calls with the Developer team at Apple I’m now trying to find my luck here.
im a software engineer, developing apps for iOS and macOS for a couple of years.
So for my latest customer who have an app already available on the App Store. They wanted me to develop an app update whilst the old developer did not agree to do so.
Now at the end of developing I’ve tried to upload the update to the App Store. I’ve developed the app under my own developer account and finally changed it to the customer‘s one, including the change of the bundle identifier to prepare everything.
At this Point, everything went well and I was still able to deploy the app with the new account and new bundle id to my physical devices.
But when it comes to Archiving and Deploying the app to the store, I’m getting code signing errors (tried „Product -> Archive“ in XCode which is the normal way to upload an app). Here I need to enter my password for the macOS user, but the code signing error still appears.
After lot of research I thought why not open up the Keychain Access App on macOS and delete the certificates that I’ve created (or were created automatically by the system/XCode when signing in with the customer’s developer account).
Long story short: Keychain app crashes immediately after opening it. I’m not able to delete/create/manage any certificates.
I don’t even get an error message, like the typical „app crash report“.
even removing the account from XCode does not help.
Some guys from Apple guided me through some commands while resetting and reinstalling macOS.
Without re-adding the customer’s account, everything works fine with Keychain. But again, when adding the account to sign and upload the app, it repeats over and over.
Apple told me that it’s likely not a problem with the customer’s account, but the above described things are really strange.
What could be the problem? I am not able to upload the update to the Store and Keychain keeps crashing.
Anybody here with a solution?
some information:
the app is already live, but the update fails.
the customer’s account is a paid account
All certificates and profiles you can create in the Console (like the one for APNS for example) are created and available to me
The app is intended to run on iOS only (Not macOS) and uses the Flutter Framework
thanks!
Sebastian
