How to manage Personal Team info on Apple Develope

Question

Ever since WWDC 2015, developers now have a Personal Team in addition to the other teams they are members of.

My account is part of an organization as well, so when I go to my Accounts in Xcode, I see something like so under Team Names:

• Organization, Agent, Agent
• User (Personal Team), Free, Free

I accidentally created an app identifier using the "Fix It" button in Xcode using the wrong team (personal team instead of the organization). Now if I attempt to register that App ID for my organization, it complains that it is already in use. If I try logging in to https://developer.apple.com to see my App IDs, I only see the ones for my organization, and not my personal team.

If I double click my personal team in Xcode, I do indeed see a provisioning profile for the App ID in question. I cannot figure out how to see these provisioning profiles on https://developer.apple.com.

Is there a way for me to manage App IDs, provisioning profiles, etc. for a Personal Team on developer.apple.com, or can they only be managed via Xcode?

If it's the latter, how would I delete an App ID I no longer need via Xcode?

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Update: If I try to create a new Apple ID and log in to the developer portal, I see a severely striped down version. The top menu just shows Home, Programs & Add-ons, and Your Account. There is no way to access the iOS features such as Provisioning Profiles, App ID, etc. unless you pay the $99 fee. But even then, you would be accessing it for that new team ID, not your Personal Team.

Normally when you login or choose Change Team, it presents you a list of all the teams you are a member of. If I try this on an account that is a member of multiple teams, it shows those teams, but not the Personal Team option.

So far, it looks like if you ever click on "Fix Issue" while a personal team is selected, that App ID will be permanently registered to that team with no way of ever unregistering it.

Answer 1

There is a way to sort this out. Contact the Apple Developer Program Support and they can help you delete the App ID from your free provisioning profile (you can't do it yourself at the moment). I just did this and I would recommend contacting them by phone since you will need to get past the first-line support to a Senior Advisor in order to fix this. First-line support did not understand what I was talking about.

Answer 2

I had the same issue and was very frustrating! (been struggling for hours with this). I thought I had done exactly what you did above with the Fix it button and set the App Name to my "Personal Team"!? and I had no way of setting the app name up in iTunes Connect on the correct account (as I was getting the warning message "The App Name you entered has already been used".

One alternative I wasn't aware of is when you create a new App Name in iTunes Connect you need to set the Primary Language.

I was selecting "English" and there is another option for "UK English" which I needed! There are multiple English languages to choose from.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Answer 3

1. Log in to the iOS developer member center and navigate to "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles".
2. Once in there, navigate into the App IDs section inside of the Identifiers section.
3. Create a new App ID with the same wildcard bundle ID you are already using but using your Team ID based prefix as its prefix. By doing so, you will be associating your wildcard bundle ID with a new Team ID. It is okay to leave your old App ID associated with your wildcard bundle ID there and not delete it - it will be ignored going forward.
4. Edit all your provisioning profiles that are associated to the old App ID and update them to use the new App ID.
5. Go into all of the provisioning profiles that you have changed and regenerate them
6. Re-archive your app. Then, submit your new archive making sure to sign it with your new Team ID prefix based provisioning profile.

Source: Steps to move an App ID from a non-Team ID prefix to the Team ID

Resume: Just create a wild card with your new Team and your App ID created with Personal Team will be ignored.

Answer 4

You can also submit a request via Apple Developer Program Support https://developer.apple.com/contact/submit/. The support team removed my personal team AppID within 24 hours, very efficient.