Xcode 13 - Cannot Submit Archive - Errors occurred while locating signing assets

Question

This issue only started after updating to Xcode 13. Never had it under 12.x and no other changes. I am tying to send an Archive to Appstore Connect for a client. I have the "App Manager" role which has always been enough for this activity. However, when trying to send or even validate in Xcode, I receive an error related to "locating signing assets" with the log indicating the following:

2021-10-02 18:18:38 +0000 [MT] Failed to locate signing assets with errors: ( "Error Domain=DeveloperAPIServiceErrorDomain Code=5 "Communication with Apple failed." UserInfo={IDEDistributionIssueSeverity=3, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=You are not allowed to perform this operation. Please check with one of your Team Admins, or, if you need further assistance, please contact Apple Developer Program Support. https://developer.apple.com/support, NSLocalizedDescription=Communication with Apple failed.}", "Error Domain=IDEProfileLocatorErrorDomain Code=1 "No profiles for 'com.company.app' were found" UserInfo={IDEDistributionIssueSeverity=3, NSLocalizedDescription=No profiles for 'com.company.app' were found, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Store provisioning profiles matching 'com.company.app'.}" )

I have tried to remove my account from Xcode and re-add, but to no effect. Again, I have had the App Manager role forever and never had a problem until upgrading to Xcode 13. I was thinking of having him elevate me to "Administrator" but that really should not be necessary. I also created a new distribution cert through Xcode (no errors there) but that didn't help either.

As an update. I went the manual route and created a profile and chose to select it manually rather than having Xcode handle it automatically. That worked. However, of course it should not have to work that way and I still don't understand why the automatic method is failing.

Anything else I can try?

Answer 1

It seems an Apple issue with the automatic sign-in process with Xcode 13. But maybe it's a wanted behavior for Xcode 13 using cloud base certs instead of the local ones.

Here's my story looking for a solutions for this.

I can confirm that downgrade back to Xcode 12 or switch to the manual signing way all works fine

Someone says that doing that:

Switch "automatically manage signing" in the project or re-select Team. Make sure the changes appear in the project file:

CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = "Apple Development"; CODE_SIGN_STYLE = Automatic;

May solve the issue, but it didn't work for me.

It seems that Xcode 13

In Xcode 13 or later, Xcode will cloud sign any apps or software for distribution when you’re using the Xcode Organizer archive and distribution workflow. Additional permissions are available in App Store Connect to enable Admins and Developers to sign apps and software with these certificates.

So I ended up enabling Access to Cloud Managed Distribution Certificate in App Store Connect -> Users and Access for my account, as Jane Doe said in this thread.

And that did solve the issue.

Here are all my references:

• https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/690763
• https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/688626
• https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev8e84490b9