Making iPhone Distribution Profiles Show Up

I’ve been having lots of trouble getting new or updated iPhone profiles to show up in XCode, and I think I may have finally stumbled on the answer. It appears that XCode does not re-scan the provisioning profiles from your library if you have the simulator as your default target.

After installing and reinstalling, starting and stopping XCode, iTunes, rebooting, etc for hours. I was testing the theory that maybe it doesn’t show the list of profiles if there’s only one by building for the device, and then examining the package. I did this and it did have a profile.

Then when I went back into XCode, my profiles list appeared! I’ll keep testing this theory but I think it’s the key. It feels like it fits with the pattern I’d seen before as things mysteriously appeared.

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3 Responses to “Making iPhone Distribution Profiles Show Up”

  1. Andrew Litt Says:

    I have been struggling with this problem for the last few hours. Your theory is correct: if everything else looks like it should work (private keys for everything in the Keychain utility, profiles in ~/Library) just build with the new target and let Xcode fail on provisioning. Then go back into project settings.

    Thanks!

  2. bladnman Says:

    OH MY GOD! YOU ARE A GENIUS! THIS HAS SIMPLY KILLED ME! Thank you so much for blogging this. After 6 different apps I was still totally in the dark on this problem and it loved to just kick my behind.

    Thanks!

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