The executable was signed with invalid entitlements

Question

I am having a problem with ad-hoc distribution on my iPhone  I have developed an application with SDK 3 0  I have a developer s license  I have added certificates and provisioning profiles in my project  So  no problem with that   But  when I try to install the app on my iPhone  it compiles the project and then displays the error   The executable was signed with invalid entitlements  in the Organizer window  Am I missing something  I have upgraded my iPhone from 2 2 1 and have downloaded latest SDK from Apple   Please help me with this issue

User · Answer

There are pretty good instructions in the 'Portal Program'. If you log into

http://developer.apple.com/iphone

Then click Distribution on the left, and click the

Creating and Downloading a Distribution Provisioning Profile for Ad Hoc Distribution

link at the bottom.

Here's the key bit:

For Ad Hoc Distribution, complete the following:

In the File Menu, select New File -> iPhone OS -> Code Signing -> Entitlements. Name the file “Entitlements.plist" and click ‘Finish’. This creates a copy of the default entitlements file within the project.
Select the new Entitlments.plist file and uncheck the “get-task-allow” property. Save the Entitlements.plist file. (in Xcode 4, get-task-allow is called "Can be debugged" )
Select the Target and open the Build settings inspector. In the ‘Code Signing Entitlements’ build setting, type in the filename of the new Entitlements.plist file including the extension. There is no need to specify a path unless you have put the Entitlements.plist file somewhere other than the top level of the project.
Click ‘Build’. (Note: Your binary must contain a flattened, square-image icon that is 57x57 pixels. This icon is displayed on the iPhone or iPod touch home screen.)

User · Answer

I also spent several hours fighting with this as well   The fix is real simple   Edit your Entitlements plist file in the root of your project s directory   Find the line that says  lt key gt get-task-allow lt  key gt    Underneath it should be  lt false  gt    Change that to  lt true  gt

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Sorry that this is very late  but I just was looking at this question and found something that worked for me   I went to PROJECT- Build Settings and found the Code Signing section   Beside debug  my distribution profile that said Iphone Distribution  MY NAME was selected   I instead selected Iphone Developer  MY NAME on the drop-down list under IpodProfile  for bundle identifiers com myName myApp which was the provisioning Profile for my device   Hope this helps

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Just got this same error code  It seems there are different things that cause this and therefore different ways to fix it   In my case  I had two different devices with the same name  an iPhone 4 and an iPhone 4S   Changing the name of one of them fixed this error completely for me

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If you once come into the situation  that checking  get-task-allow  seems to be required in order to deploy your debug     build to your phone  check this   a  Check the build setting  There should be no entry in  Code Signing Entitlements  for Debug b  Remove Entitlements plist temporarily and build your debug version  If it complains about a missing Entitlements plist  then you probably have the same situation  I had to fight today  c  Build again with Entitlements plist and enable  get-task-allow   If it works now  you probably have the same problem   After messing around with new profiles I couldn t deploy my Debug build to the phone  AdHoc was fine  I checked a  - empty   Hmm  I checked b  - complains  c  - worked     After all I examined project pbjproj in an editor and - although the GUI did claim  that there was no entry for  Code Signing Entitlements  in fact there was one in the Debug section  I emptied it and was done

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For me that solved it  https   coderwall com p -ckobg   Open Project xcodeproj   project pbxproj Remove all lines like these   PROVISIONING PROFILE        PROVISIONING PROFILE sdk iphoneos          CODE SIGN IDENTITY        CODE SIGN IDENTITY sdk iphoneos           Set provisioning profiles  amp  code signings for the target again

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pJosh  this might help understanding   In my case  my Team Provisioning Profile was expiring  the Provisioning Portal indicated it is managed by XCode   as well as the device testing profile for the app    I still don t know why  but the portal had a  Renew  button next to the team profile  but it wouldn t do anything when I clicked it    So  I deleted the profiles about to expire  then in XCode go to Organizer  Command-Shift-2   under Library   Provisioning Profiles  I deleted the expiring ones   Then click  Refresh  at the bottom  enter my Apple ID  and it renewed the expiring ones   Finally  on my Target  I went to Build Settings  Code Signing  and made sure to select the provisioning profile   Voila  now it builds to my device

User · Answer

Check if you re device is included in the provisioning profile

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I just had this happen to a developer on the team I administer     It turned out his developer certificate expired and after renewal  I neglected to add his certificate to the provisioning profile his app used

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Code signing entitlements are no longer necessary for Ad Hoc builds in Xcode 4 - see details notes in Apple Technical Note TN2250

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In Xcode 5 1  if you go into Preferences -  Accounts -  View Details     Make sure the Signing Identity status is Valid  If it says Revoked  hit the Plus button and add the appropriate signing identity  iOS Development or iOS Distribution  Xcode will replace it with a new  valid one

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I have just had an exciting three hours battling with this   I have just upgraded a project to 4 2 and for some reason it just wouldn t work   I eventually removed the Entitlements plist file and then created a new one   File   New File   Code Signing   Entitlement  Name the file Entitlements plist  Make sure it s in the Resources group in xCode   It didn t put in the get-task-allow BOOL type in the Entitlements plist file   I added it  checked it  saved it  unchecked it  saved it   This made me feel better   I then removed the Adhoc and Release profiles I had created   Re-downloaded them from the  Provisioning Portal and droped them back into the xCode organizer   I then went into Build Settings and made sure the correct profiles were assigned to the Debug and Release profiles   I then changed the to Release   Device   Hit the build button and it worked   I have no idea why

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Had this issue occur when everything seemed to be setup correctly  build setting were pointing to correct provisioning profile  code signing was properly setup  etc   Issue occurred because I had just created a new scheme and hadn t regenerated my CocoaPods for the new configurations  As you can see from the image  the new ad-hoc configuration is pointing to the Pods production configuration  instead of a Pods ad-hoc configuration  and test respectively     To fix    Set the offending configuration to None -- cocoapods wouldn t generate the configs unless I did this Close XCode Run pod install Re-open XCode and set the new scheme s configurations to the newly generated configurations    That s it

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I had not agreed to the new updated licensed agreement from apple   Briefly   Please log in to your developer s account -  profile s -  review -  read the agreement or get your lawyer read it for you -  agree  at your own will  -  and again click profile s to check the status of your profile   In my scenario the valid code signing entity was not showing up  When i followed the above procedure it was visible and i was able to run the app on the device and or create the iPA file without much difficulty

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This is because your device  on which you are running your application is not selected with your provisioning profile   So just go through Certificates  Identifiers  amp  Profiles select your iOS Provisioning Profiles click on edit then select your Device

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I was trying to add iCloud support to my existing app  but found that after adding entitlements and configuring iCloud  my app would no longer debug   I realised that my generic iOS development certificate had a different APPID from the app I was working on   So to fix it  instead of using my generic certificate I created a specific development certificate for that APPID     I refreshed my provisioning profile in XCode  cleaned out the app  disconnected my device  restarted XCOde and connected device and ran  and it now works a treat

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I have found that  get-task-allow  needs to be checked for Development builds but unchecked for Distribution builds   The easiest way to accomplish this  AFAIK  is to have two entitlements files in your project  Entitlements plist and EntitlementsDebug plist - and to reference the proper one in the build project settings for the various configurations in your project

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This error also may occur if you re trying to profile an app where the device is not included in the provisioning profile   Make sure your device is included in the dev provisioning profile you want to use  Somehow the error message is misleading  My entitlements were actually ok

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John s answer is 99  correct   I found that  at least in my configuration   you have to open the Build settings inspector for the PROJECT   The build settings for the target do not contain  Code Signing Entitlements    Perhaps this doesn t make a difference if you have only one target in your project   But if you have multiple targets  you need to go to the project build settings   In any case  after doing what John said  my ad-hoc distribution build worked perfectly

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