How to remove iOS Team Provisioning Profile / AppID on Xcode?

Question

I am new to Mac and I have to use it for developing Ionic hybrid app for iOS. I am using Mac 10.11 with Xcode 7.

Now, I have get my app ready and want to deploy it to app store. But I am having trouble with the App ID. In my Xcode, when I go to account, I can see Team Name list with 2 items. One is my name with Agent for iOS and Mac. The other one is my name (Personal Team) with Free for iOS and Mac.

The problem is in the Personal Team item, I have the provisioning profiles with the app ID I want to use for deploy into app store. Since it is already in here, I can’t create that app ID again in my developer account. I tried but I can’t find a way to remove it.

So, how can I remove that app ID / Provisioning Profile so that I can use it in my developer account?

Thank you.

Does this answer your question? [How to delete an App ID associated with a Personal Team?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34552441/how-to-delete-an-app-id-associated-with-a-personal-team) — Senseful, Dec 12 '22 at 12:33

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '16 at 11:31

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The only way I manage to do that is to contact the customer support (Apple Developer Program Support), after few days and few back and forth they finally deleted the bundle id from my Personal Team and I was able to add it to my Developer Program (Agent) profile. I know this is not ideal but at least if you really want to use the same Bundle ID it worked for me.

answered May 02 '16 at 11:31

Alexandros Trepeklis

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This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient [reputation](http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation) you will be able to [comment on any post](http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/comment); instead, [provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/why-do-i-need-50-reputation-to-comment-what-can-i-do-instead). - [From Review](/review/low-quality-posts/12216429) – Aleksander Azizi May 02 '16 at 13:59
@AleksanderAzizi why this does not provide an answer? This is the only way currently to achieve what was asked. – Alexandros Trepeklis May 02 '16 at 15:28
This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether. http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/comment – Aleksander Azizi May 02 '16 at 16:02
The question was: So, how can I remove that app ID / Provisioning Profile so that I can use it in my developer account? The answer is: Contact Apple Developer Program Support as they are the only one that have access to make this change. I struggle to understand why this is not an answer but anyhow. – Alexandros Trepeklis May 02 '16 at 16:55
I can confirm that having had an App-ID inadvertently added by a team member's Xcode to his free/personal team account, the only way to have it deleted was to call Apple Dev Support. It took a few days and several very detailed emails explaining the visible issue ("App-ID not available" error) to get someone to finally understand what the problem was, and have the App-ID removed. Also, due to Apple's privacy policies, they won't tell you which account has the App-ID registered, but instead they'll send an email to said account and wait for a response before taking any further action. – Oscar Hierro Dec 27 '16 at 12:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '16 at 07:12

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The issue is not with App ID but Bundle ID that is unique in the AppStore.

Currently, you can't 'restore' Bundle ID in any way. You can create another App ID with the same Name but different Bundle ID.

Solution: go to your other Developer Program, create new App, choose slight different Bundle ID and you are good to go.

Reference: Apple Documentation

answered Jan 05 '16 at 07:12

Krodak

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Thanks a lot for answering my question. I want to keep the app ID (com.companyname.appname) to be same with my android app, I don't want to create a different one for iOS. Currently the problem is because it is used in the Xcode in the FREE "account". How can I delete it so that I can create it again in the agent account (developer account) from the website? – user1995781 Jan 05 '16 at 08:08
I work as iOS Developer for 4 years, mostly in Software Development Houses so I've done it multiple times for multiple clients. There is simply **no** way to do this - so you need to create App ID with new **Bundle** like this: com1.companyname.appname - please remember that this is **not** visible to anyone on client side - this is just for Xcode / programmers. You can keep the same **Name** in the App ID, so if your application was named 'My awesome app' it can still be like this, but you can't bypass the fact that you **need** to create new Bundle ID - no way to delete it, trust me. – Krodak Jan 05 '16 at 09:02
Thank you for the explanation. So, what is the difference between App ID and the Bundle ID? Do you mean that the bundle ID has to be different (like com1.companyname.appname) and I can still keep the App ID to be (com.companyname.appname)? Is that mean in my config.xml, I can still keep the id to be (com.companyname.appname)? – user1995781 Jan 05 '16 at 09:50
App ID consists of 2 elements - *Name* and *Bundle ID*. You can use same *Name* in number of applications, but *Bundle ID* must be **unique**. So, the App ID is always unique -> com1.companyname.appname. Another thing that you can do, you can upload application from your account with proper App ID to iTunesConnect and there you can transfer it to another team, here is official doc: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/10_ManagingYourApplications/ManagingYourApplications.html – Krodak Jan 05 '16 at 13:49

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

You can select your App ID in the Developer portal under iOS App IDs to edit and delete.

If you're referring to your iTunes Connect listing, you cannot remove your application listing. You can however use a different Bundle ID with the same App ID. Which, in turn, would solve your problem.

As for Provisioning profiles, you can edit and remove them in the Provisioning Portal.

@Alexandros Trepeklis suggested contacting Apple Developer Program Support; they may be able to help you remove the original app listing.

And as @Krodak mentioned, you should read 's documentation on the subject.

Dana Wheeler · Answer 4 · 2017-04-07T17:25:08.963

You can delete an App ID and Bundle ID on your own through the developer portal if you have not yet posted the app to iTunes Connect. The TL;DR is that you need to add a capability to your app to force Xcode to generate an explicit listing for your app on the portal. Once the listing is there, you can remove it (and all associated provisioning profiles and whatnots).

Step by step: