I am referring to this post. I am struggling with this now, too, and thought it may get more likely some attention if I start a new post about it instead of adding a comment there (does it actually make a difference, though?).
I read through (most of) the posts, mainly by Quinn, and cannot find what I'm still doing wrong. Upload with Xcode 13.4.1 still works, but with Xcode 16.3 or later I get both these errors and the warning of this topic:
ITMS-90288: Invalid Code Signing Entitlements - The entitlements in your app bundle signature do not match the ones that are contained in the provisioning profile. According to the provisioning profile, the bundle contains a key value that is not allowed: '25856V4B4X.org.tempel.findanyfile.helper' for the key 'com.apple.application-identifier' in 'Find Any File.app/Contents/Library/LaunchServices/org.tempel.findanyfile.helper'
ITMS-90885: 'Cannot be used with TestFlight because the executable “${executable}” in bundle “${bundle}” is missing a provisioning profile but has an application identifier in its signature. Nested executables are expected to have provisioning profiles with application identifiers matching the identifier in the signature in order to be eligible for TestFlight.'
I must admit that I only have an entitlement file for the main app, not for the embedded apps and frameworks. Until now, it appeared that they got automatically adopted. So, I don't understand what the entitlement for the embedded apps needs to contain.
The main apps's entitlement file is now:
codesign -d --ent - …/"Find Any File.app"
Executable=…/FAFv2 MAS Release 31.10.26, 13.38.xcarchive/Products/Applications/Find Any File.app/Contents/MacOS/Find Any File
[Dict]
[Key] com.apple.application-identifier
[Value]
[String] 25856V4B4X.org.tempel.findanyfile
[Key] com.apple.developer.team-identifier
[Value]
[String] 25856V4B4X
[Key] com.apple.security.automation.apple-events
[Value]
[Bool] true
[Key] com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit
[Value]
[Bool] true
[Key] com.apple.security.personal-information.addressbook
[Value]
[Bool] true
[Key] com.apple.security.personal-information.calendars
[Value]
[Bool] true(I just added the application-identifier and team-identifier to the entitlement file in hopes that would solve this but it made no difference.)
I also checked with the other cmd on the app in the xcarchive, getting this:
tempi@TTsMini24 ~ % security cms -D -i …/Find\ Any\ File.app/Contents/embedded.provisionprofile
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>AppIDName</key>
<string>Find Any File</string>
<key>ApplicationIdentifierPrefix</key>
<array>
<string>25856V4B4X</string>
</array>
<key>CreationDate</key>
<date>2026-10-31T12:30:46Z</date>
<key>Platform</key>
<array>
<string>OSX</string>
</array>
<key>IsXcodeManaged</key>
<true/>
<key>DeveloperCertificates</key>
<array>…</array>
<key>DER-Encoded-Profile</key>
<data>…</data>
<key>Entitlements</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.application-identifier</key>
<string>25856V4B4X.org.tempel.findanyfile</string>
<key>keychain-access-groups</key>
<array>
<string>25856V4B4X.*</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.developer.team-identifier</key>
<string>25856V4B4X</string>
</dict>
<key>ExpirationDate</key>
<date>2027-10-31T12:30:46Z</date>
<key>Name</key>
<string>Mac Team Provisioning Profile: org.tempel.findanyfile</string>
<key>ProvisionedDevices</key>
<array>
…
</array>
<key>TeamIdentifier</key>
<array>
<string>25856V4B4X</string>
</array>
<key>TeamName</key>
<string>Thomas Tempelmann</string>
<key>TimeToLive</key>
<integer>365</integer>
<key>UUID</key>
<string>…</string>
<key>Version</key>
<integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>Any help would be appreciated.
Actually, I just realize that I may be confusing entitlements and profile - the latter is the one I claim from Apple's website, right? I haven't visited that for years (though I already struggled understanding it back in the early years when this all started). Gonna see if I can make sense of it on the Apple dev website now.
Update - no, that can't be it. When i create a new profile, I need to choose an identifier that describes the entitlements for my app, right? So I checked my current identifier for my app, and that lists lots of options like "5G Network Slicing" and "Access Wi-Fi Information", but none of them look anything like the entitlements that I am using. So, my plain identifier that has none of these options checked should be fine, shouldn't it? Which also means that the current profile I have used for years should be fine as well.
What am I missing here? These error msgs from the MAS upload are not helpful at all. They tell me things that seem right to me, and then there's that text with the unfilled ${executable} and ${bundle}, which isn't helping either. This could be so much better. And there's no way to reliably get help from DTS directly any more either - that option has apparently been dropped for having to ask here in the forum, where I can only hope that someone will take a look at this. If it weren't for Quinn, we'd all be doomed already, probably.
Til then, I may just have to keep building and submitting with Xcode 13, and admitting to my MAS customers that I'm unable to make my app look modern while the indie build release works with the modern look as that's not locked out by Apple.
