Unable to install iOS app to my phone via Xcode and free dev account (Solved)

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Hi guys. So i followed the guide about developing for ios and got my provision profile and free dev account. I successfully run test application from Xcode and granted permission in general settings in my phone. After that i build a simple mobile game (default project) in Defold and tried to send it to my iphone via Xcode/Devices and got an error “Unable to install”.

Build settings:

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Xcode error

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I also tried via command line (ios-deploy) and got this error “error 0xe8008001: An unknown error has occurred. AMDeviceSecureInstallApplication(0, device, url, options, install_callback, 0)”.

Am i missing something? Do i need to have app name same in test app in Xcode and in Defold? Provision profile was created yesterday, so it should be valid.

Setup:
Xcode 12.0.1
Defold 1.2.174
masOS Catalina 10.15.7
iOS 14.0.1
Iphone SE 2gen

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I feel you. These kinds of problems are usually pretty frustrating to figure. It is very likely a provisioning profile problem or something like that.

Did you uninstall the test application from your device before testing to install the Defold app you built?

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I think you need to have the same bundle id, yes. (e.g. com.mycompany.myapp)

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Yep, that worked. I don’t know why i didn’t check it before.

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I tried several times and it didn’t worked. The problem was in bundle id, it wasn’t set correctly in Defold

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Hi,

I got the same problem and this topic helps me a lot ! Perhaps, the documentation located here https://defold.com/manuals/ios/ needs to be completed about the constraint of the identical bundle ids…

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I agree

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Good point. I’ve added a note about this in the manual.

For future reference: The documentation is open source and available here: GitHub - defold/doc: Defold game engine documentation for www.defold.com

We happily accept pull requests!

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