Question

I’ve migrated to Xcode 4, and can no longer submit my application to the App Store. Every time I submit either via Xcode or Application Loader, I get the same error:

“the application-identifier entitlement is not formatted correctly … “

Googling this points to the Entitlements.plist file where the application-identifier key should match my application bundle ID: J1234567885.com.domain.appName for example

Thing is, it is. The bundle identifier in my app.plist and in the Entitlements.plist are identical! What am I doing wrong? Here’s my Entitlements.plist file (which has never changed looking back):

<?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>application-identifier</key>
    <string>J1234567885.com.domain.appName</string>
    <key>get-task-allow</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

I’ve changed the identifier above, but just to give you an idea…

Answer 1

Turns out now in Xcode 4+ you do not need an Entitlements.plist for your Release build (or at least, Xcode 4 does something weird with it that Xcode 3 didn’t).

Anyway, to fix my issue I simply removed the reference to my Entitlements.plist from the release parameter under ‘Code Signing Entitlements’ in Build Settings.

Built, Archived, Validated, Submitted to iTunes Connect.