Need to build my app for private use (not for the mac app store!) using 2025r1.1, am now confronted with 6 “Issues”:
“Make sure you have an Apple Distribution Certificate Installe (sic) on your Mac Keychain” ← Xojo Inc., note the spelling error here
“App Store Connect expects an App Icon of 1024 x 1024 (32 bits) (App Item > Appearance).”
“App Store Connect expects an App Icon of 512 x 521 (32 bits) (App Item > Appearance).”
“MacOS apps sent to the Mac App Store must be Sandboxed (Build Settings > macOS > Sign)”
“Developer ID Field is Empty …”
“App-Specific Password Not Found …”
Please tell me how to turn this off. I don’t want to use these features. I just need to build the app. The mac build settings is missing a checkbox to turn all this off ! Or IDE Preferences window under Build? It has to be somewhere!
NOTE: I reverted to 2025r1 and the same thing happened. What’s going on here? These “issues” did not appear when I built the app using 2025r1 a couple of weeks ago.
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Hi @Aaron Hunt,
These messages only appear if you clicked the Publish icon instead of the Build button. Publish is meant to, well, publish the app to the App Store Connect… so the “checklist” is run before the package is uploaded.
If you do a regular build (both for private use or for distributing it outside the Mac App Store)… everything should work as expected.
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Hi Javier. Thank you, that makes sense …
For some reason my Build icon disappeared and was replaced by a Publish icon. Because the icons changed graphically and “publish” is a new feature, I assumed the graphic for build had simply been changed …
OK, click the “hammer”, genius.
Simple stupid user error! But I bet I’m not the only one. 
Wow! That’s really odd… if you can replicate it, please open an Issue about it!
I don’t think there is an issue. I saw only two icons. Because Xojo has for so long NOT had a “Publish” icon. I click the icon which is not the triangle. I’ve done this for 20 years. Now there is a new icon. I am unable to see that there are 3 things now. My brain blocked it out! In a very real way so that I even report here in public that there are only two icons, when I look again, and there are three. It sounds idiotic, but this is something our brains can actually do. A bit frightening. Like the poor natives unable to see the invading ships approaching because they never saw it before.
Notice: notarization is also happening with the build-button if you have turned it on in the “Sign”-Build settings. I discovered that yesterday when I just wanted to do a build for testing and it startet notarizing.
Simple solution: just uncheck “Notarization” in the build-settings.
That beeing said: a big THANK YOU! to Xojo for making this whole Apple notarization stuff so easy (once it is set up at least).
I love that feature 
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I find the built-in notarisation useful during testing , when one wants to build a version of the app to deploy for a few days. But for eventual distribution, then I turn that off and use AppWrapper to notarise the .dmg.
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