PrepareAppBundle Task Failed Unexpectedly - Xamarin Forms

Question

Things were working fine before but all of a sudden I can't build and deploy my Xamarin Forms 5 app to my iPhone connected to my Windows 11 machine via USB cable.

Initial error I got was the following:

The 'HotRestart.Tasks.DetectSigningIdentity' task failed unexpectedly.

Here's a screenshot of the error:

I then tried to rebuild the project and I got the following error:

The "PrepareAppBundle" task failed unexpectedly.

Here's a screenshot of that:

To make sure it's not my project that's causing the error, I created a fresh new Xamarin Forms app and tried to look at it on my iPhone without changing a single line anywhere in the new app and I ended up with the same exact errors above.

I'm on the latest version of Visual Studio 2022 - version 17.1.3 and my laptop runs Windows 11 with all the latest updates.

I'm able to run the app on Android Simulator AND a physical Android device connected to my laptop via the same USB port. It just seems to be failing on iPhone.

Any idea what's causing this issue?

Answer 1

Just upgraded Visual Studio to 17.1.4 and the problem is FIXED!!!