Michael Cruden
ย ยทย Seamless Technology Integration

Publishing to App Store - Missing Push Notification Entitlement

I plan to use notifications at some point. However, I am not using them now. I toggled the Project Setup > Permissions over and added a message "This app would like to send you notifications"

When I got this message back from the app store, I disabled that and also turned off the App Settings > Push Notifications toggle. Two additional builds were rejected with same message.

Why would the app store think I am using this?

I already had this happen once in my app with a permission key they said I needed for accessing photos. I have no use of that function anywhere in the app. Guessing this is just peculiar stuff that goes on inside the store, but is rather hard to follow. Any suggestions to get around this?

-- App Store message --

ITMS-90078: Missing Push Notification Entitlement - Your app appears to register with the Apple Push Notification service, but the app signature's entitlements do not include the 'aps-environment' entitlement. If your app uses the Apple Push Notification service, make sure your App ID is enabled for Push Notification in the Provisioning Portal, and resubmit after signing your app with a Distribution provisioning profile that includes the 'aps-environment' entitlement. Xcode does not automatically copy the aps-environment entitlement from provisioning profiles at build time. This behavior is intentional. To use this entitlement, either enable Push Notifications in the project editor's Capabilities pane, or manually add the entitlement to your entitlements file. For more information, see this link

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