XCode 6 and Ad-Hoc distribution without XC: provis

Question

Yesterday I've downloaded Xcode 6 and now I have got a problem I can't solve. In my member center I've got valid certificate and ad-hoc provisioning (distribution). Till yesterday, in Xcode 5 if I wanted to add my .ipa to TestFlight I was using Archive and selecting my valid ad-hoc profile. I wasn't even logged in in my developer account in Xcode.

Now - in Xcode 6 - nothing is working at all. Ok, I've logged in preferences, Xcode downloaded all my provisionings on Mac, but whenever I choose Export it says that I don't have matching provisioning profile and it's creating new provisioning profile with XC: prefix - which I don't want to use, because it contains all devices I have in member center - even those I don't want to include in my app!

I was trying everything from this threads:

Xcode 6 - How to pick signing certificate/provisioning profile for Ad-Hoc distribution?

Xcode 6 GM creating archive

but nothing is working for me. Maybe I don't understand correctly how it works and there is a trick I have to do but I would like to use provisioning profile defined by me. I was trying to create new provisioning profile, rename the old one, remove all from Mac, drag provisioing profile from desktop to Xcode icon, select correct Provisioning Profile in Build Setting all over again but I'm stuck.

Screenshots here:

My Ad-hoc profile is distribution profile.

Answer 1

I ran into this today as well.

I ended up removing the XC profile from the developer portal and recreating my other ad-hoc and app store profiles and downloading them again.

After I did this, when I built and tried to submit to app store, the correct App Store profile showed up AND when I went to export for ad-hoc, the correct ad-hoc profile showed up.

Yay ;)

Answer 2

I hit a similar problem and discovered that even if you specify the correct profiles in Xcode the Xcode6 system wants you to have the latest (from member centre) provisioning profile (for each team your account is against). It seems to walk each one in turn before using the one you need and gets blocked if you are absent any provisioning profile for the teams you belong to.

Answer 3

In Xcode 6 (at least 6.1 I am using now)when you are doing the export for ad hoc, xcode 6 will automatically scan if there is any provisioning profile contains all devices registered in the developer account and at the same time match the bundle ID. If no, it will use XC provision profile. Therefore, if you want to use your own profile, for example, for the purpose of push notification, you will need to select all devices in your profile on apple developer portal. I guess that's the reason why some people recreate profile would work and some wouldn't.

Answer 4

I have a workaround for this that works for me.

I have both Xcode 6 and Xcode 5.1.1 installed, Xcode 6 is in Applications and Xcode 5.1.1 is in another directory. When I want to do a build I use Xcode 6 to create the Archive. But you can also see the created Archive in Xcode 5.1.1 so I use Xcode 5.1.1 to distribute the Ad Hoc .ipa using the provisioning profile that I want to use. So build using Xcode 6 but distribute using Xcode 5.1.1. It works for me.