The entitlements in your app bundle signature do not match the ones that are contained in the provisioning profile

Question

I have submitted many app builds to TestFlight, even yesterday, but today when I tried to submit my app to TestFlight via XCODE I get the following error:

ERROR ITMS-90164: "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: '[ ]' for the key 'com.apple.developer.healthkit.access' in 'Payload/Runner.app/Runner'."

I'm building a flutter project via XCODE. I have tried the following:

• Cleaning my project.
• Re-enabling automatic app signing in XCODE.
• Deleting my provisioning files from ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/
• Disabling automatic signing in xcode and creating my own provisioning profile via the Apple Developer site

But I'm still getting this error. My enablements haven't changed from the last time I uploaded my app. Please help, thank you.

UPDATE 1: Appears to be a change made on Apples end that is causing this error. No official response/explanation from Apple has been provided yet. Some workarounds have been provided below. I went with enabling Clinical Health Records usage for the Health Kit enablement since this workaround doesn't use any non-apple approved changes. So still technically not a final solution, but a workaround.

UPDATE 2: Apple has resolved the issue on their end, no workarounds are required anymore.

Answer 1

I was facing the similar error.

I believe the Apple back-end has changed and has started applying a stricter rule to entitlement keys that take array values.

I believe the Apple back-end used to accept empty arrays for entitlement keys that took array values but now require the entitlement key to either not be present at all or to contain actual values.

Evidence to back this assertion:

• I have an entitlements file with a key for "com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers" entitlement with an empty array like so:

  <key>com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers</key>   <array/> 

• This was fine until just yesterday (I successfully submitted a build, and have submitted builds like this for more than a year).

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The Fix:

Remove or Comment out the following line from the .entitlements file:

  <key>com.apple.developer.icloud-container-identifiers</key>   <array/> 

• The key was empty anyway so should not have an effect after being removed.

Now the TestFlight submission is successful.