Xcode 8 shows error that provisioning profile does

Question

Xcode 8 shows error that provisioning profile doesn't include signing certificate.

This issue is with Xcode-8 only with Xcode 7, same provisioning profile showing related identified certificate.

Answer 1

1. Delete the developer certificate that does not have a private key.
2. Delete the provisioning profile from your machine using go to folder (~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles)
3. Then first check then uncheck the Automatically manage signing option in the project settings with selecting team.
4. Sing in Apple developer account and edit the provisioning profile selecting all available developer certificates then download and add to XCODE.
5. Select the provisioning profile and code signing identity in project build settings

Answer 2

It means you need to do either 1 of the below:

1. You should have created a certificate at the Developer Center and then included that Certificate within the Provisioning Profile which you will Import into XCode.
2. Else, If you are using a certificate created by someone else, then get them to share/export their certificate & private key (.p12 file) to you & you need to include this into your keychain. Refer here

A solution to #2 when you are not able to get the certificate & .p12 file from the creator would be to just check the 'Automatically manage signing' option.

Answer 3

This happens because the provisioning profile can't find the file for the certificate it is linked to.

To fix:

1. Check which certificate is linked to your provisioning profile by clicking edit on your provisioning profile in the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section of the Apple Developer dashboard
2. Download the certificate from the dashboard
3. Double click the file to install it in your keychain
4. Drag the file into Xcode to be extra sure it is linked

The error should be gone now.

Answer 4

For those who still struggle with this problem in Xcode8. For me was a duplicate Certificate problem, this is how I solved it:

I read the answer of Nick and then I began my investigation. I checked all the keys and Certificates in my particular case (inside ~/Library/Keychains/System.keychain).

When I opened the file, I found that I had two iPhone Distribution Certificates (that was the certificate that Xcode was requesting me), one with the iOS Distribution private key that I have been using since the beginning, and another iPhone Distribution Certificate which its private Key had a name (iOS Distribution:NAME) that wasn´t familiar for me. I deleted this last certificate, started Xcode again and the problem was gone. xCode wasn´t able to resolve that conflict and that´s why it was giving signing certificate error all the time.

Check your keychains, maybe you have a duplicate certificate.

Answer 5

I had the same issue and reason was penny. Wrong profile and certificate was selected in build settings. I only had did this before few days. So, you do not need to enable "automatic" inside xcode. Check profiles inside your build settings before doing it.

Answer 6

To fix this,

I just enable the "Automatic manage signing" at project settings general tab, Before enabling that i was afraid that it may have some side effects but once i enable that works for me.

Hope this helps for others!