iOS 7.0 No code signing identities found

Question

• certificate is valid
• xcode 5
• iOS 7

Code Sign error: No codesigning identities found: No codesigning identities (i.e.

Answer 1

Having gone through a ridiculous amount of time trying to solve one of these, and I definitely can see where most of these answers could be correct in some cases, my situation was not all that uncommon.

I was trying to deploy to the app store to test with TestFlight. A previous developer, no longer part of the project or company, had created the IOS Distribution Certificate. What xcode was trying to tell me was that yes, the certificate was in the member center, but dude you totally can't use it because it's not yours. I didn't have the private key needed to sign with it and no amount of refreshes, restarts, revokes were going to help me. You need a developer and distribution certificate to upload to the app store.

The solution was to create a new production distribution certificate in the member center, using a new signing request from my keychain. This process is documented well and described while you create the cert online. Once done, refresh your account in xcode to download to your keychain and you will be golden. I hope this helps somebody!