Must I be Admin in Apple Developer Portal

Question

I have an Apple Developer account and I have been added to our teams Apple Developer set up on the Apple Developer Portal.

Every so often VS 2019 complains that it cannot download certificates (they haven't changed so i don't know why it decided it needs to redownload)

Checking provisioning information...
Performing server validations against 'ma'...
Connection to 'ma' completed successfully
Syncing certificates for "Us Ltd" team...
Fetching all certificates...
Resolving certificate...
Fetching valid and locally installed signing identities...
Syncing certificates for "UsLtd" team...
Saving Apple Development certificates...
There was an error while trying to automatically provision the project: 'This request is forbidden for security reasons: You currently don't have access to this membership resource. Contact your team's Account Holder, My Boss, or an Admin.'

Do I need to be kept as an Admin in Apple Dev Portal? This seems wrong if i do. If I get "My Boss" to make me admin the certs do download

Answer 1

Hello,

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

This is a known issue of Apple Developer Account. You could add permissions for the users in Appstore Connect > users & access. However, it means that these users will only receive access to App Store Connect and are not considered part of the team in the Apple Developer Program.

You need login the AppleDeveloper Account in VS by the Account Holder's AppleId. The wildcard App ID is necessary if you don't create an App ID or a Profile maunually, refer to https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1713/_index.html

In addition, you need accept any license agreements in either the Apple Developer portal or App Store Connect.

For more information, you could refer to
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1713/_index.html
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/device-provisioning/automatic-provisioning?tabs=windows
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40670557/your-account-does-not-have-permission-to-create-ios-distribution-certificates
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31447414/unable-to-access-provisioning-profile-in-developer-apple-com

Best Regards,
Wenyan Zhang

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