Xcode Product - Archive disabled

Question

I have been archiving for ad hoc distribution fine for many months and suddenly today I cannot do so as the Archive menu item is disabled  I have not changed anything  I went through the provisioning setup for the project and it looks ok   My Ad Hoc profile is about to expire in 14 days  Could this be the problem  I don t believe I can renew it until the day it expires  There is a a  renew  button for my ad hoc profile in the organizer but when I click it I get         The given profile was not found on the provisioning portal    Please refresh your provisioning profiles before attempting to renew    MyAddHocProfile      The profile in the provisioning portal shows active  expiring on the 30th  I noticed that I had not yet upgraded to 4 6 2 and did so  Then I downloaded my profile and double cliked it thinking that would refresh the profile in Xcode  still no joy  I also tried manually replacing the profile file MyAddHocProfile mobileprovision in the Library   What do they mean  refresh your provisioning profile    Even so  I would think that as long as the profile is active  I should be able to create an archive  I must be doing something else wrong

User · Answer

Change the active scheme Device from Simulator to Generic iOS Device

User · Answer

You ve changed your scheme destination to a simulator instead of Generic iOS Device   That s why it is greyed out

User · Answer

Select active scheme to Generic iOs Device

User · Answer

In addition to the generic device  or  quot Any iOS Device quot  in newer versions of Xcode  mentioned in the other answers  it is possible that the  quot Archive quot  action is not selected for the current target in the scheme  To view and edit at the current scheme  select Product  gt  Schemes  gt  Edit Scheme     Cmd  lt    then make sure that the  quot Archive quot  action is checked in the line corresponding to the desired target  In the image below  Archive is not checked and the Archive action is greyed out in the Product menu  Checking the indicated checkbox fixed the issue for me

User · Answer

If you are sure that you selected the Generic iOS device and still can t see the option  then you simply have to restart Xcode   This was the missing solution for me as a cordova developer with Xcode 11 2

[xcode] Xcode Product -> Archive disabled

Examples related to xcode

Examples related to provisioning

Examples related to ad-hoc-distribution