Apple Profile Triage 3.5 Beta

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It’s been a busy month working on APT and there’s more exciting things coming. If you’re interested in trying out the latest beta, you can download it here:

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Version 3.5 brings a number of improvements and bug fixes to the multi-team capability as well as an all-new iOS app bundling feature! This feature is primarily for the times when the Xojo IDE can’t or won’t sign or build the app bundle for upload to the App Store but doesn’t give you enough information why. The IDE must still be able to build your app however.

The way this works is, if the Xojo IDE gives you an error when building for the App Store:

  1. Select the Team for the account that you will be releasing the app from using the Teams menu.
  2. From the Package menu, select Build.
  3. APT will ask you for two things:
    1. The .app bundle for your app
    2. The entitlements plist file (clicking cancel will continue building without entitlements)

Once this information is gathered, APT will attempt to sign and bundle your app. If any errors occur, you will receive a message showing as much information as APT could gather to help you figure out what went wrong.

NOTE: If you have a build earlier than 3.5b11, you may have to manually download this version as we fixed a bug in the updater recently which prevented the update window from appearing.

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So far so good on my end with 3.5. Also a great development on the new Package functionality. Personally I’ve never run into a problem with Xojo signing my apps, but this could be worth its weight in gold if/when someone stumbles across this kind of problem.

I do have one request and one question…

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Any chance of moving “>= Xcode 16” to the preferences? I would imagine this won’t be changed too often and is a bit of an eye sore.

Question
Can you speak to how you actually put the “>= Xcode 16” in the menubar? Assuming it’s some kind of declare here with a MouseDown event.

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I believe this will address an issue I have with my iOS apps; thank you!

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I assume you mean the one in the title bar that’s next to the maximize button?

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We started there. The feedback I’ve gotten so far is that people with multiple projects are having to switch quite often. I suspect the answer is that this feature will be moved or completely disappear once it’s no longer an option, which will most-likely happen in the spring when Apple makes the iOS 18.x SDK mandatory and thus Xcode 16 will also be.

Also, remember that this tool may not only used by people who use Xojo.

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For some reason the Settings window is failing to pickup my AppleID email address. It does not allow me to enter anything to correct the issue.

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Ah yes. I’ll have to make that editable again. Sorry about that.

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This issue has been fixed in b17

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That allows me to enter all of the details. I’ve configured the API access but it still refuses to action anything when I hit save. Nothing at all happens, just shows the clicking action but nothing saved or removed. Only cancel closes the dialog. The Team API is saved and works with Apple, however the email address is not updated.

When it was asked for access to the server password it was granted.

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I’ve tried US as a country code, no difference. Is there a settings file I could manually delete to give it a clean slate?

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There are two conditions that would cause this behavior (although I can see that there’s a good chance that it won’t tell you why).

  1. APT was unable to unlock your keychain. That’s what would happen if you declined to allow keychain access.
  2. APT was unable to find the keychain item where your API credentials were stored.

As for the settings file, it is located in:

~/Library/Application Support/com.stretchedout.apple-profile-lister/prefs.conf

There is however an log.txt file in that same directory that might give some indication of what’s going on.

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b18 has been posted with more diagnostic msg box calls when the preferences window saves to the keychain so maybe we can figure out what’s going on.

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The log file says:
Unable to find a keychain to store your Apple Store Connect API credentials.

The new beta version shows that error message when I hit save.

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Ok, so when APT launches and asks for your keychain password, are you typing it in?

If so, is there anything else about your keychain setup that you can think of?

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It hasn’t asked. When I setup an API it asked for a password for that and I entered it. Is there a way to reset?

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There are two things you can try. First, locate the keychain item in the Keychain Access app by searching for “Apple Profile Triage.” Then I suggest:

  1. Open the item by double-clicking on it
  2. Click the Access Control tab
  3. Make sure Apple Profile Triage.app is in the list of applications that are always allowed access.
  4. Close the keychain item window to save the changes
  5. Open APT and see if you’re still getting errors when saving. If not, you’re done.
  6. If so, try deleting the item named Apple Profile Triage from keychain altogether.

Note: If you’re running macOS 15 Sequoia, Keychain Access has been moved out of the Utilities folder into '/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Keychain Access.app'

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“Apple Profile Triage” does not appear within Keychain Access. I looked through there last night in search of anything related to APT. I’ve tried searching both the full name and the abbreviated form. I can find nothing.

I was aware of the Sequoia move, quite annoying for one reason or another.