How to: Enable Capabilities of Your Apple App Identifier

Enable the necessary capabilities of the app identifier for your iOS app in App Store Connect.

Posted on 5. October 2023 by Jan Bunk

An app identifier record pointing to three enabled capability switches
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Open the Apple developer page for identifiers.

Select the identifier with the name and the identifier

Scroll down and tick the following checkboxes:

    Don't tick any other checkboxes. Don't worry if some checkboxes are already ticked and greyed out, that's fine.
    Tick the Push Notifications checkbox.

    Click the "Save" button at the top right.

    Click "Confirm" if a dialog comes up saying that existing provisioning profiles will be invalidated.

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