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I usually avoid logging in to xcode. I prefer to manually configure provisioning profiles and code signing certificates by hand in the developers.apple.com web interface anyways. You can use xcodebuild on the command line to get a signed ipa, and then you can use altool or application loader to upload the ipa to appstoreconnect. I don't trust xcode to not stomp all over my carefully configured provisioning profiles and app ids.

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I have never once trusted xcode to get provisioning profiles and certificates right.

It's always manual for me, at least that way xcode won't suddenly tell my app is not registered to a team and refuse to build.

I know it's not relevant to the discussion, but I want to voice publicly how much I loathe the build error system in XCode. How can they possibly think anyone will find their obtuse and downright impossible log system is helpful.

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