iOS app The application could not be verified only on one device

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I have two iphone devices  4s and 5   connected to my computer and i am trying to install an application in both the devices  It installs pretty well in iphone 5 but it gives an error  The application could not be verified   when attempted to install in the iphone 4s device    The UDIDs of both the devices have been added in the provisioning profile generated for the application    Also  to add a note  I have just updated my iphone version to 8 1 3 in my 4s device  I am not sure though if the error has anything to do with it    Any help on this would be much appreciated  I have been stuck on this for some time now    EDIT    I just connected this to another iPhone device and the issue seems to be there again  Basically this means that the app  for some reason  installs only in the phone which I have been using for some time now and not in any other phone  Once again  I am pretty sure that the provisioning profile contains the UDIDs of all these 3 devices

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I had something similar happen to me just recently. I updated my iPhone to 8.1.3, and started getting the 'application could not be verified' error message from Xcode on an app that installed just fine on the same iOS device from the same Mac just a few days ago.

I deleted the app from the device, restarted Xcode, and the app subsequently installed on the device just fine without any error message. Not sure if deleting the app was the fix, or the problem was due to "the phase of the moon".

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just delete the app and try again  it happens to me when i try to launch over a device that has the same app but generated by an ipa file

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Working  amp  tested solution  which does not require to delete application   It looks like AppStore Distribution Provisioning Profile or just iOS Distribution certificate have special permissions and  Could not be verified     problem does not apply to them  They will always override previous certificate   In other words  AppStore release will install successfully  even if already installed  testing  adhoc or enterprise  app has been signed by the certificate from different team   If you are lucky and have previously uploaded app to the AppStore account owned by the same team as in certificate you have a problem with - then things are very simple  just download  amp  install app from AppStore   When it installs - app certificate will be the same as the one you want to test with and problem goes away   If your app is not on the AppStore yet - iTunesConnect beta comes to the rescue   Disclaimer  I did not tested this but since cert an prev are the same as AppStore release  I bet it works    Archive your app with AppStore provisioning profile  iOS Distribution cert  and upload to iTunesConnect  to the account owned by the same developer team as included in the provisioning profile not you want to run   Invite person with the device you want to run on  yourself   to beta test  Download  amp  install the app from iTunes connect beta  Now you are able to install your testing version

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As I notice The application could not be verified  raise up because in your device there is already an app installed with the same bundle identifier   I got this issue because in my device there is my app that download from App store  and i test its update Version from Xcode  And i used same identifier that is live app and my development testing app  So i just remove app-store Live app from my device and this error going to be fix

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Just had the same problem and I found out that the issue is with expired certificate  My app was distributed  AdHoc  through firebase and few days ago app was working just fine  Today I ve realized that I can t install it because  The application could not be verified   Finally I realized that certificate that I was using for app signing has expired 2 days ago  You need to upload it again and you ll be able to install it

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I resolved this issue by changing the Build System to legacy in xcode   I had the same problem but the mentioned solutions above didn t work for me  Even I had no previous app on device  I got this error when deploying on my device    How to do    Simply  go to menu File   Project Setting  inside Share Project Settings  change Build System from  New Build System  default   to  Lagacy Build System

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You probably used the  Fix Issue  option in Xcode when plugging in a new device  Old question but I believe this is the actual answer to WHY this is happening  When you install an app on a device it is signed with a specific development provisioning profile  If  for instance  you plug in another device that is not registered on your developer account Xcode will ask you to  fix the issue   When you press that the device is added and another provisioning profile is created modified  If you try to overwrite an existing app you ll receive that error  Deleting the app and reinstalling it works since the profile has been altered  I find this often happens when a Team is set and a member plugs in a new device then Xcode  Fixes  the problem

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Had the same issue on my iPad running 8 1 3 Deleting the app and installing again fixed the issue  I use two different provisioning profiles on two different machines and that could have caused this issue

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I faced this issue a lot  I am not sure if this is the issue  but I think  when xCode saw that there is an app with the same bundle identifier as of the app  I am trying to install  it didn t allow me  So  I had to delete the older one and attempted to install and it worked  However sometimes for testing purpose  I needed multiple version of the same app and in that case  I would change the bundle identifier and try to install  It only works if  I am using an wildcard provisioning profile

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To others not using RubyMotion and don t think that deleting the app is acceptable  as in  you want to do upgrade testing   Check out the bottom of these docs from Apple   https   developer apple com library ios technotes tn2319  index html  It looks like they changed something in 8 1 3 to check for this new rule   The Fix    Add  the installed application   s application-identifier value  as logged in the second parentheses  to the previous-application-identifiers entitlement   s array value for the app being installed  by resigning it or re-building it  and requesting new special provisioning profiles as shown below     lt key gt previous-application-identifiers lt  key gt   lt array gt       lt string gt  Your Old App ID Prefix  YourApp Bundle ID lt  string gt   lt  array gt    EDIT   In order to do this  you need special provisioning profiles  You can request these from Apple   To enable signing with the previous-application-identifiers entitlement new special provisioning profiles are required that can be obtained by going to the Contact US page and requesting them    from the docs linked above

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The application could not be verified    in your device there could be already an app installed with the same bundle identifier   So Simple solution Just delete the App   amp  try again

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I had changed the team but I forgot to change it in my Tests target it so it caused that  Maybe this helps someone

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TL DR answer - There is no real solution besides  delete app and reinstall    This answer is not satisfactory for many situations  when you have an existing database that needs to not get deleted within the app   Lukasz and plivesey are the only ones with solutions that don t require delete  but neither worked for me

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I also encountered the same issue  Deleting the app didn t work  but when I tried deleting another app which was the current one s  parent  I copied the whole project from the previous app  modified some urls and images  then I clicked  Run  and saw the unhappy  could not be verified  dialog   Seems the issue is related to provisioning and code signing and or some configurations of the project  Very tricky

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Might have figured it out    Deleting the app from the device worked for me  as others mentioned before  thanks       I think the reason is that the app on the device was actually signed with a separate provisioning profile  specifically a distribution profile in my case

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