App installation failed due to application-identifier entitlement

Question

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.

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Answer 1

With MacOS Catalina, your iPhone will be displayed in the 'Locations' sidebar of Finder windows (as long as you've got the Finder preferences set up to show external devices) - you can then access the files via the 'Files' option which is available from the bar near the top of the window, just below the title (in my case I had to click the '>' at the right).

Answer 2

This is solved easily by removing you previous app from your device. And start to reinstall again. This works fine for me.

Answer 3

I had the same issue. The bundle.identifier and the name of the project has to be the same. At least that was my issue.

Answer 4

This can be caused by App ID prefix, when you switching different developer accounts. See https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2311/_index.html for Apple's support.

Answer 5

I faced the same issue today and resolving it by just changing the Display Name and Bundle Identifier from the previous App that also installed on my iPhone. Steps:

Xcode -> General tab -> Find Identity -> Change Bundle Identifier

So, now I have two same Apps with same functionality but with two different names and identity.

Answer 6

In my case it was because of the certificate.

because my own certificate to sign the app wasn't part of the developper team (new employee), upgrading the app from the App Store to a new version wasn't allow.

So in case it happen to you and you can't manage to obtain a "good" certificate, just clone the git appStore version, open two Xcode projects, compile the old version, update the settings as you wish, the compile the new one and you're done.

a little bit dirty and tricky but I hope it could help someone.