How to fix no valid aps-environment entitlement string found for application in Xcode 4 3

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I ve been trying very very hard to create a simple simple iOS app which can recieve push notifications   My only reason for doing this is to establish a procedure for some other team members to use  and have not been able to find an up to date  working version of such instructions elsewhere on the web   Our shop is fairly new to iOS dev  I personally am completely inexperienced with iOS dev and Xcode   I ve stumbled through tens of tutorials  articles  and trouble posts from Apple and elsewhere and I feel like I might be nearly there       Here is where I ve got to  note I m using Xcode 4 3 and trying initially to deploy just to iOS 5 1  and I gather that some things may have changed recently vs earlier versions of Xcode  but again I m new to all this -- and finding it completely confusing and convoluted    1  I ve got a provisioning profile on my iPhone which has Push enabled  2  In my test Xcode project I ve got that provisioning profile selected as the signing identity  in Build Settings   Code Signing     3  I ve got my bundle identifier under Summary and Info   Custom iOS Target Properties set properly   I think     4  I ve got registerForRemoteNotificationTypes being called in my delegate s didFinishLaunchingWithOptions  5  I ve got didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken and didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError in my delegate  set up to log the device token or error respectively  6  I ve got Enable Entitlements checked under Summary    7  Right below that the Entitlements File selected is Tinker6  the name of my test project   which was generated automatically when I checked Enable Entitlements  8  In the Tinker6 entitlements file I ve got the following  which I ve gathered is correct based on several different posts all over the web  but which I can t find anything definitive from Apple itself on      Updated  9  Also  I have tried the whole thing without an entitlements file  and get essentially the same result   10  My mobileprovision file contents include entitlements properly  I ve scrambled the number and domain but structurally the same     lt key gt application-identifier lt  key gt   lt string gt 12355456A7 com whatever tinker lt  string gt   lt key gt aps-environment lt  key gt   lt string gt development lt  string gt   lt key gt get-task-allow lt  key gt   lt true  gt   lt key gt keychain-access-groups lt  key gt   lt array gt       lt string gt 12355456A7   lt  string gt   lt  array gt     end update  When I attempt to run this on my device  I get the following error in Xcode output   2012-06-11 12 45 23 762 Tinker6 13332 707  Failed to get token  error   Error Domain NSCocoaErrorDomain Code 3000  no valid  aps-environment   entitlement string found for application  UserInfo 0x24a3b0   NSLocalizedDescription no valid  aps-environment  entitlement string  found for application    I ve tried setting get-task-allow to NO  aps-environment to production  all four possible combinations  same thing   How can I get past this   Where is definitive documentation on this   -- further background follows --   As far as the bundle id  I am still not clear on how this should be set in relation to App Ids and Profile ids in the Provisioning profile   In the Provisioning portal under App Ids I have this  again  scrambled the number and domain      And the two places bundle id is set I have this      I am not at all sure these are correct or whether one or both should be set to 12355456A7 com whatever tinker  though I ve tried those earlier in the process with no success     Note I realize there are many posts with similar titles  however they all seem to be out of date based on the file names and so-forth given  and the fact none of the solutions seem to be useful   I m hoping the greater level of detail I ve given will warrant a quality response   I will probably assign a bounty as soon as possible and if you give a high quality answer that leads to a solution I will award you the bounty as well as promote your answer via twitter and my blog   Especially if you crosspost post a really good  here are the exact 500 steps you need to get a simple push notification app working including provisioning and whatever else  article on your blog or whatever

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First of all  you don t need the entitlements file unless you are adding custom key value pairs that do not exist in the provisioning profile  When your app is built  any entitlements from the provisioning profile will be copied to the app   Given that you still see an error message about missing entitlements  I can only assume the code signing options are not correct in the build settings   You need to make sure the correct profile is selected for the  Debug  configuration  and to be safe  that you have selected the correct profile for both the  Debug  and child-node labelled  Any iOS SDK      Although this screenshot shows the  Automatic Developer  profile selected  choose the exact provisioning profile you want from the drop down  just for testing purposes  It could be that Xcode is automatically choosing a different profile than the one you want   Also be sure to do a clean build  completely delete the app from your device  etc  This is just to make sure you don t have some old fluff hanging around

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You need to make sure you have in your provisioning profiles  https   developer apple com account ios profile   an iOS Distribution profile   When you upload from xCode to the App Store  make sure you have the aps-environment in the entitlements  If not  download them from the View Accounts -  View Details -  Download All

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There seem to be something quirky with the  automatic  entitlements in Xcode 4 6     There is an Entitlement plist file for each SDK at    Applications Xcode app Contents Developer Platforms iPhoneOS platform Developer SDKs iPhoneOS6 1 sdk Entitlements plist   A workaround solution I came up with was to edit this file and add the sneaky aps-environment key manually like so    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt  DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC  -  Apple  DTD PLIST 1 0  EN   http   www apple com DTDs PropertyList-1 0 dtd  gt   lt plist version  1 0  gt   lt dict gt       lt key gt application-identifier lt  key gt       lt string gt   AppIdentifierPrefix   CFBundleIdentifier  lt  string gt       lt key gt aps-environment lt  key gt       lt string gt development lt  string gt       lt key gt keychain-access-groups lt  key gt       lt array gt           lt string gt   AppIdentifierPrefix   CFBundleIdentifier  lt  string gt       lt  array gt   lt  dict gt   lt  plist gt    Then  Xcode is generating correct Xcent file  which contains the aps-environment key at    Users mySelf Library Developer Xcode DerivedData myApp-buauvgusocvjyjcwdtpewdzycfmc Build Intermediates myApp build Debug-iphoneos myApp build myApp xcent   You can locate where your Xcent file is created using Xcode s Log Navigator  look for  ProcessProductPackaging      Unfortunately  this is the only way I found that fixes the issue   and finally able to properly get push token now   Just wondering if another more elegant solution is available  Please see my SO question for more details on that  Xcode 4 6 automatic entitlement not working -  quot no valid aps-environment quot

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recreating  provisional files fixed my all problems

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My problem was simply that I was signing with the Xcode-managed wildcard provisioning profile   After I created an app-specific profile  and downloaded it  double-clicked it  and ensured my Build Settings referred to it   I successfully received an APNS device token

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Ran into this same issue myself  For me  the issue was that my product name   TARGET NAME  was not capitalized the same way presented in the certificate provided by apple  For example  i had com companyid APNDemo whereas the Apple cert was using com companyid apndemo   I changed my target to be lowercase and it worked  Note  The clue for me was the codesigning setting in Build Settings was set to my default developer certificate  not the APNTest provisioning profile

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All you need to do is  add one key in  Entitlements File  APS Environment this key needs to be added and value should be  Developement or Production as per your purpose   Kindly check uploaded image

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The answer was  start over  do everything the same but create a new provisioning profile  and install it   That worked   Inspecting all the details  entitlements in mobile provision  looks exactly the same as everything in my question here   But now it works   Apple  WAT   Of course  it would have been obvious to do this if it was possible to delete provisioning profiles   But since that s not possible  I didn t want to clutter our team with a bunch of test profiles   Still  finally lost patience and tried it anyway  and it ended up working   Whatevs

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I have faced this issue in Xcode 8   You must have to enable Target     capabilities     push notification  Check the screenshot

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You mention a provisioning profile but I don t see any mention of an Apple Push Profile   To use Push you must have a push profile  there are two  one for development and one for release   After you ve created it you ll need to make sure it contains the relevant certificates  see the EDIT section below    This is an excellent tutorial that will walk you through all the steps   http   www raywenderlich com 3443 apple-push-notification-services-tutorial-part-12  It would take me  or anybody else  hours and hours to write a thorough detailed answer like this tutorial  so I m not going to attempt to  nor lay claim to the bounty when this tutorial already exists   P S  I believe you don t need entitlements any more  this is a legacy thing   EDIT  You should also check you have the necessary profiles on the device - go to the settings  then general  profiles  check your profiles are listed  especially the push profile of course   You can also check this from the Organizer section of XCode  In Organizer there are two sections that say Provision Profiles - one at the top left in Library  this is the profiles in XCode that you use to sign etc   Also you will see a section call Provisioning Profiles for the device that is connected  this is the profile that is installed on the handset   If you don t have them installed on the handset you can download them from the provisioning portal website  then click on the Add button at the bottom of the Organizer window   While in the provisioning portal you should also check that the Apple Push Profile includes the certificates  - click on Provisioning on the left hand menu - you ll see a list of your profile  select to EDIT the Apple push profile - you ll see a certificates section  with a list of developers or testers etc  you have in your project  make sure the check box is checked for them  - you ll also see a devices section  make sure the device you are testing on has been added   If you have any old profiles in XCode or on the device delete them and download refresh install all the new profiles from the provisioning portal

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Before deleting and regenerating AppIDs Profiles  make sure your Library and Device have the same  and correct  profiles installed   I started seeing this error after migrating to a new computer   Push had been working correctly prior to the migration   The problem was  duh  that I hadn t imported the profiles to the Xcode library on the new machine  in Organizer Devices under Library- Provisioning Profiles    The confusing part was that the DEVICE already had the right profiles and they showed up as expected in build settings  so everything looked correct there  but the XCode LIBRARY didn t have them  so it was signing the app with

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I had the same issue was everyone else and tried all the above tricks  nothing worked   I even deleted and started fresh with a different developer account   What worked for me in the end was   Do as suggested above and create APP ID Then create provisioning profile DO NOT use the team wildcard profile  managed by xcode one  in the development section of the provisioning   You need to make a separate one using that app ID that you ve made push notification active for   This way when you develop it will have the push notification function built in    I don t know if you can enable that for a wildcard app  but after trying at least 12 different suggestions and losing a few days I hope this helps someone

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If you created your provisioning profile before configuring the app ID for push  try to regenerate the provisioning profile      iOS Provisioning Portal -  Provisioning -   Your cert -  EDIT -  Make   an edit -  Download new provisioning   Worked for me  Now i m able to use push

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I had a similar issue  I ve been bouncing between XCode 7 and 8 for a variety of reasons  Once you use 8 to build  you will need to use 8  I simply used Xcode 8 and applied some of the changes suggested above and it worked

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Ok  I faced the problem before  Since push notification requires serverside implementation  for me recreating profile was not an option  So I found this solution WITHOUT creating new provisioning profile   Xcode is not properly selecting the correct provisioning profile although we are selecting it correctly   First go to organizer  On the Devices tab  Provisioning profile from Library list  select the intended profile we are trying to use  Right click on it and then  Reveal Profile in Finder       The correct profile will be selected in the opened Finder window  Note the name     Now go to Xcode   Log Navigator  Select filter for  All  and  All Messages   Now in the last phase Build Target  look for the step called  ProcessProductPackaging  expand it  Note the provisioning profile name  They should NOT match if you are having the error    Now in the Opened Finder window delete the rogue provisioning profile which Xcode is using  Now build again  The error should be resolved  If not repeat the process to find another rogue profile to remove it   Hope this helps

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Easiest way is to do this from your accounts with Xcode   Head over Xcode -  Preferences -  Choose Accounts Tab -  View Details -  Hit refresh button on the bottom left -  Done   Build again and it should work

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Delete old provisioning profile from XCode in Organizer    Then  generate a new provisioning profile for the same bundle id in iOS provisioning portal  after you have enabled push     Import the new provisioning profile in XCode  set it in your app build settings    Build  run  it works    I just did it    It took me 10 minutes from error to success

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It took me hours to solve it  Given that someone is using custom scripts to sign and pack while others are using xcode itself  there s only one way to check what ended in your app  Dump you entitlements with  codesign --display --entitlements  - path to MyApp app  and check aps-environment and application-identifier

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XCode 6 1 1  and multiple apple developer accounts Another answer for this already fairly comprehensive mix  I came across this issue again today  and this time it was due to my having multiple apple accounts   I needed to first add the 2nd developer account in XCode  gt  Preferences  gt  Accounts  gt    Ensure that the Push Notification Capability is ON Next I needed to actually explicitly enable In-App Purchase in the app  I did not need to do this previously   XCode  gt   the app window   gt  Targets  gt  Capabilities  gt  In-App Purchase ON  and at this stage I was given the option to choose the correct certificate  Note that I had already added the Push enabled certificate by double clicking it in Finder

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This error may occur when your certificate has expired    The solution is to renew certificate and sign the application with it

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I tried out all the answers listed here but no one solved my issue  In my case this error is due to my silly mistake in Appid creation  I used Wildcard App ID instead of using Explicit App ID caused the problem  If you want an application to receive remote notifications push notification   then you need to use an Explicit App ID  such as com tutsplus push  instead of com tutsplus    Please find the ScreenShot

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This was what fixed it for me    I had already tried toggling the capabilities on off  recreating the provisioning profile  etc    In the Build Settings tab  in Code Signing Entitlements  my  entitlements file wasn t link for all sections   Once I added it to the Any SDK section  the error was resolved

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Xcode 5  Well  after spending an hour I solved my issue  Even if you re-generate the provisioning file in Xcode 5  you should manually update your account  I only changed provisioning file in the Organizer tab that did not work  Xcode kept build with old provisioning file   So go to      Xcode   Preferences   Accounts   View Details  Select your account    Then refresh your provisioning files

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A lot of the above answers are correct   However  there seems to be more than one possible error when dealing with this   The one I had was a capitalization issue with my App ID   My App ID for some reason wasn t capitalized but my app was   Once I recreated the App ID with correct capitalization  it all worked smoothly   Hope this helps   Frustrating as hell though   P S  if it still doesn t work  try editing the Code Signing Identity Field manually with  edit    Change the second line with the name of the correct provisioning profile name

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