Entitlements confer specific capabilities or security permissions to your app.
Questions tagged [entitlements]
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App installation failed due to application-identifier entitlement
I am unable to install a watchOS 2 WatchKit app due to an application-identifier entitlement. This happened after turning on App Groups in the Capabilities tab.
Full error:
App installation failed
This application's application-identifier…

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Provisioning profile doesn't include the application-identifier and keychain-access-groups entitlements
I've tried all the other questions and searched everything on this that I could already, a lot of the other questions involved existing apps that were being updated or people with developer accounts but this is like my second time using Xcode and it…

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No valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application on app store
So I have this app called Dripper that I put out about a month ago and then an update a couple days ago. The update added push notifications and a few little tweaks. I tested it with the sandbox-apn using the development profile and things worked…

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Xcode 8 "the aps-environment entitlement is missing from the app's signature" on submit
I've got an app that we've submitted dozens of versions to in the last 6 months and we do use APNS. I got the following email from Apple after upgrading to Xcode 8
Dear developer,
We have discovered one or more issues with your recent delivery…

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Profile doesn't match the entitlements file's value for the application-identifier entitlement
I am trying to upload an app to the app store and I am getting this error on the page that has the certs. As far as I can tell I have changed the field so they have matched, but I am missing something.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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What does get-task-allow do in Xcode?
When I set up my entitlements in my iPhone app project, I create a new Entitlements.plist, and set the value of get-task-allow to false. But why? What does this key represent?
Note this is related to Application could not be verified error when…

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Xcode6 error: "No matching provisioning profiles found for application"
I'm trying to submit my iOS app in Xcode6. When I click Submit or Validate in the organizer, a window pops up that says:
Failed to locate or generate matching signing assets:
Xcode attempted to locate or generate matching signing assets and
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Exposing an app's ubiquitous container to iCloud Drive in iOS 8
I'm developing an iCloud-enabled app where users will be able to import and export files via iCloud Drive. When browsing iCloud Drive, either using the UIDocumentPickerViewController (iOS 8) or the Finder (OS X Yosemite), I can see directories…

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Cannot show Automatic Strong Passwords for app bundleID
This is the full error-message:
Cannot show Automatic Strong Passwords for app bundleID: com.ckbusiness.Wishlists due to error: Cannot identify the calling
app's process. Check teamID and bundleID in your app's
application-identifier…

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What is the use of entitlements.plist file?
I have some questions regarding entitlement file:
What is the use of entitlements file.
What happens if I don't add it.
What is the difference between myApp.entitlements and entitlements.plist?

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How to create Entitlement.plist file in Xcode?
I have downloaded the latest version of Xcode. I want to create Entitlement.plist file in my project.
Please give me proper steps to create an Entitlement.plist file in Xcode.

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What is the "archived-expanded-entitlements.xcent" file in IOS app?
What is the archived-expanded-entitlements.xcent file ?
What is the use of this file in an iOS application?

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Required client entitlement required?
I have a wkwebview and I selected the checkbox 'inline playback' which is suppose to make any video in the wkwebview to not autoplay and stay in the webpage and not go full screen.
This worked fine for me until my Xcode updated to 11!
I now get the…
user10559318
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libMobileGestalt MobileGestaltSupport.m:153: pid 1668 does not have sandbox access in Xcode console
I'm seeing this message in the Xcode console whenever I run the app:
libMobileGestalt MobileGestaltSupport.m:153: pid 1668 (APP_NAME) does not have sandbox access for frZQaejlsahdhlemg and IS NOT appropriately entitled

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Per configuration app group entitlement strings in Xcode?
Is there an easy way to have per-configuration app group entitlement strings in Xcode projects?
We're trying to share settings between an iOS application and today extension using an "app group" entitlement in both the targets.
The problem we're…

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