How to remove provisioning profiles from Xcode

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Solution 1

It's simple, go to this folder:

~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/

Open finder on your mac, and click on Go -> Go to Folder ... Just paste this into the search bar and hit Open. It will show the list of provisioning profiles present in Xcode. Delete all provisioning profiles.

Solution 2

Update for Xcode 8.3

This no longer works in Xcode 8.3. It appears to be related to Apple's move to automate provisioning profile and certificate generation:

The simplest "solution" (or workaround) is to make sure Xcode is closed, then via Terminal:

rm ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/*.mobileprovision

In Xcode 7 & 8:

Open Preferences > Accounts
Select your apple ID from the list
On the right-hand side, select the team your provisioning profile belongs to
Click View Details
Under Provisioning Profiles, right-click the one you want to delete and select Move to Trash:

Solution 3

In Xcode 6, you can do this mostly right in Xcode:

Go to Xcode -> Preferences -> Accounts.
Choose your Apple ID in the left column.
In the right pane, click the "View Details..." button.
Right-click on the provisioning profile you want to delete, then click "Show Details".
A Finder window will open up with the provisioning profile highlighted.
Delete the selected provisioning profile.

Solution 4

Open Terminal
cd ~/Library/MobileDevice/
open ./

Now the finder window will be open with Provisioning Profiles folder. Delete all or any provisioning profiles from here and it will reflect in Xcode.

Solution 5

. Simple Steps:

1:Click finder

2:Right click on Finder
3:click on goto folder

4: Paste in Search : ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles

5:Click on Go

6:List of the Profiles .you can delete any one

Thanks

You'll want to restart XCode to refresh the list.

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vaibhav silar

Updated on May 25, 2021

Comments

vaibhav silar almost 3 years

Does anyone know how to remove previously installed provisioning profiles from Xcode?

I have seen this link, but I am not able to find that location in my system.

So I think there must be some other way to remove provisioning profiles.
- benhorgen about 6 years
  
  Great question, applicable across all versions of Xcode. And there are some good answers here for previous versions, but for Xcode 9.1 none of answers seem to apply and/or work. Can someone provide an answer for the current version of Xcode? Thanks in advance!
Kay about 9 years

Doesn't work for me. After deleting the provisioning profile in finder it shows up again when I hit refresh
David about 9 years

This doesn't work. When I hit refresh they come back. I've even tried wishab's suggestion - deleting them on disk AND online. They won't die. Provisioning profiles are the bane of my existence.
Daniel Ryan about 9 years

Same as Kay, even if I also delete them off the website.
Daniel Ryan about 9 years

I don't see a gear for provisioning profiles, only for signing identities.
Jannie Theunissen about 9 years

@David sorry to hear that. Maybe I'm the only lucky developer in the universe then: it works for me.
Michel almost 9 years

I also am having issues with my provisioning profile and APNs, using Xcode 6.3.2. But how can you delete an app ID? I aways thought and read it was not possible.
Chris Allinson almost 9 years

You need to right click on a profile and "view in finder". You can delete the actual file ... which is what worked for me! :D
user523234 almost 9 years

This is ridiculous that one has to to this manually every time a renewal of provisional profiles is involved. Apple, what has happened to you?
Geoff H almost 9 years

@David I totally agree with you & am having the same problem. They just won't die. Did you figure out the source of the problem yet? It's like a fungal infection.
Chris over 8 years

If you're using the terminal already, why not just use rm to remove profiles? Seems like a roundabout way to open finder
n.by.n over 8 years

You are right. This is just a visually satisfying way to delete any specific group of provisioning profile from Finder.
Matz over 8 years

great. Thank you very much!
bruce1337 over 8 years

Note the the right-click menu is not available in Xcode 7.1. Instead, try the Finder-based solution by RIYAZ below.
Duncan C over 8 years

@bruce1337, I just right-clicked on a provisioning profile in Xcode 7.1.1 and it showed a popup menu with the options "show in finder" and "move to trash".
bruce1337 over 8 years

@DuncanC you're right! For some reason Xcode doesn't recognize ctrl-click as equivalent to a right-click, even though Safari and other apps do.
Duncan C over 8 years

@bruce1337, oh man, that's awful! Standard Apple equipment (Like Macbooks, or any trackpad device) often doesn't have a right mouse button. We should all file a radar bug about that.
DIJ over 8 years

Double finger tap on a selected item will get you the menu to "delete" or "show in finder" on a device with a trackpadI keep forgetting this. I always try a tap with a button combination which does not work.
Mike Gledhill almost 8 years

Blimey. It's now 2016, we're up to Xcode 7.3.1, and it still demands you do this. What a complete pile of cr-
DeyaEldeen about 7 years

it's 2017, it's still needed !
Shaik Riyaz about 7 years

@AlexHall , do you want to remove single provisional profile ?
Alex Hall about 7 years

I got it sorted, thx. I was making an unhelpful comic reference to what the AI says in the film "2001: a space odyssey."
Philipp Sumi about 7 years

I don't even have the "View Details" button. When I select my team, I'm seeing a "Download All Profiles" and "Manager Certificates..." button. Any idea?
UncaughtException about 7 years

@PhilippSumi With XCode 8.3 it is less simple to manually manage Provisioning profiles. The best thing to do is go to Finder>Go To Folder... and type in` ~/Library`. Once in the Library, navigate to /Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles. Here you can remove or add any profiles you want. If you want complete control, download individual profiles from your Apple Developer Portal and add those.
TechSavvySam almost 7 years

in 8.3.3 I removed the .mobileprovision files from the directory and they keep getting recreated in xcode when I click on "Download All Profiles" even though I've deleted all of the provisioning profiles on the apple web site
TechSavvySam almost 7 years

Also around version 8.3.3, the "View Details" option was removed and replaced with "Manage Certificates..."
brandonscript almost 7 years

Right, but that's just certificates now - it's no longer provisioning profiles.
Wayne over 6 years

It's $current_year and this still sucks
nacho4d over 6 years

If you want to do it ALL visually, no need Terminal.app. Just go to the Finder and press Cmd +Shift + g and paste: ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ . Now you are in the right folder to remove your provisioning profiles at your own will :)
Muhammad Rizwan about 6 years

Easiest option i find in this page.
Kejsi Struga almost 6 years

For me this did not work, but after I did this and cleaned the project, I was able to run without any errors of Provisioning Profile xD. So if this alone doesn't work, make sure you clean the project afterwards. Thanks!
Ananta K Roy almost 6 years

Thanks for sharing that! Yes, there is little clarity on what actually works given the frequent updates to Xcode too.
ibuprofane over 5 years

This broke Pods for me. I was able to compile but when loading I received dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/{framework} Reason: image not found. Revered back to system defaults and it worked fine.
Alejandro Iván over 5 years

pkill -9 Xcode && rm ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/* && open -a Xcode
Atomhax over 5 years

October 2018 and I just had to do this.
Agilanbu over 5 years

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Hamza Hasan over 5 years

Jan 2019, still looked for this answer
savante over 4 years

Greetings from Aug 2019
Thomas Hilbert over 4 years

Marty: "Doc! I have to tell you about the future!"
Sem over 4 years

2019 Sept hahaha...yea I am not able to delete specific provisioning profile
Potassium Ion almost 4 years

June 2020, after WWDC20 and this is still somehow a thing in Xcode 12!
Ahmad Labeeb almost 4 years

can you add a screen shot
Suresh Varma over 3 years

SEP-2020 and yet nothing has changed
Nostromo over 3 years

December 2020 and still saxo.
BeardOverflow over 3 years

Hello from January 2021!
Suraneti about 3 years

Hello World from March 2021
Kenneth Murerwa about 3 years

April 2021 on Xcode 12 and it still works. Apple really doesn't change much in the Xcode updates.
Mikhail Vasilev almost 3 years

Cheers to folks from 2042 in advance. Now it's july 2021, WWDC21 passed and profiles are still crap.
Neil Galiaskarov over 2 years

who is from 2021?
dentemm over 2 years

This feel like time traveling, except that nothing changed in the past 6 years. Xcode still being Xcode
Shashikant More about 2 years

It's 2022 and continues...
Arno Teigseth about 2 years

I'm suspecting this is to have ppl buy a new mac when they can't figure this. Greetings from April 2022