I'm having trouble creating a dedication AppId to my watch extension.
So far my app and corresponding watch app worked perfectly. I had my App ID configured using a bundle id similar to the following format: xx.yyyyy.appName, and the watchkit app & extension were using a wildcard appId with the relevant (and suggested) bundle id of xx.yyyyy.appName.watchkitextension and xx.yyyyy.appName.watchkitapp and everything was great.
I found out I need to change the current behaviour of my apple watch app to share some data with the parent app, and in order to do it I had to enable the App Groups capabilities, where I found I'm not able to do so for the watchkitextension (apparently App Group capabilities required Explicit App ID rather then wildcard App ID).
Realising I don't have a dedicated App ID I went to the member centre and tried to make one unsuccessfully. Following Apple's guidelines I'm trying to create the App ID with the same prefix of xx.yyyyy.appName following .watchkitextension.
This results in the following error message:
An App ID with Identifier 'xx.yyyyy.appName.watchkitextension' is not available. Please enter a different string.
No matter what string I input I get the same error. I made sure I don't have other AppId with similar bundleId associated with it. I even deleted the wildcard App ID to make sure the asterisk (*) in the last digit in the Bundle ID field of it isn't confusing things. No luck -> it became even worst. I can't recreate the wildcard App ID I had before (getting the same error)
UPDATE:
I found out changing the first part of the string (the xx part) to something different allows me to create the AppID - but unfortunately it doesn't solve my problem as I need it to have an identical prefix for the bundle id of the watch extension. I thought maybe this info will be helpful to whoever try to assist.
UPDATE2
I've read the following stackoverflow posts, one, two, three and many others. No luck :(
I'm feeling a bit lost here, any help would be much appreciated!
