No iOS Development certificates found

Question

I got a strange error in my Xcode organizer when I want to update my Provisioning profiles.

Xcode says this:

Answer 1

My situation was that I got this message when trying to refresh my old certificates (developer + distribution) from Xcode, when they had expired due to the yearly renewal of the developer program.

For what it's worth, I managed to fix the problem by this procedure (roughly):

1. Delete my old "iOS Team Provisioning Profile" from my device
2. Open my keychain and delete the old private keys associated with with the expired certificates.
3. Remove the expired certificates from the list in Xcode's organizer (on the portal, they were deleted already).
4. Generate new certificates manually on the portal, following the instructions in detail (including downloading the new certificates and double-click to install).
5. After trying a new refresh in Xcode's organizer, I still got the same error message, but when checking on the device, a new provisioning profile had now been automatically created and installed, so I could forget about the error message.

Answer 2

Oddly all it took for me was:

First do an export (just to be safe!)

Xcode 5:

• In Xcode -> Preferences -> Accounts
• Click the cog icon at the bottom left -> Export Accounts...
• Enter a filename and password and save
• Ideally, then back it up somewhere that's not your Mac (Dropbox for example) - it is encrypted so that's okay.

Then for the actual fix:

Xcode 5:

• In Xcode -> Preferences -> Accounts
• Select the Apple ID in the left column
• Click the "-" (minus) icon at the bottom left and conf
• Click the "+" (plus) icon at the bottom left -> Apple ID... and login

Everything was then just fine...

Answer 3

Just download the provision files manually solved the problem for me.

Answer 4

In Xcode: Menu Xcode --> Preferences --> Accounts --> View Details

Then press the refresh button in the lower left corner.

Answer 5

I have the same problem. There is indeed nothing to approve, the status of my certificates is issued, if there would be a need for provenance there would be a button to do so. To be able to continue working I just deleted the "Xcode managed" profile, created a new one, downloaded it (not using Xcode) and throw it into Organizer.

Answer 6

Same error message here. Seems to have multiple sources. Mine was that I have a developer account and joining two teams. In one team i had no Certificates at all. In the past this did not cause any problems. In Xcode Organizer I could choose which team I try to fetch the Provisioning Profiles. And if chose the team for which I had Development Certificate the Provisioning Profiles got downloaded with no error. I think, with the new improved Member Center starting from april 2013 the Organizer fetches automatically all team accounts - without asking for a specific team. As one team had no certificate at all, the process of fetching for all teams stop with this error message.

Solution (for this problem) is to add a Development Certificate for ALL teams.