Default Mail App entitlement missing Ad Hoc support

Hi Apple DTS and community,

My developer account's app has been granted the Default Mail App managed capability (com.apple.developer.mail-client). The capability works for Development and App Store Connect distribution, but it is not enabled for Ad Hoc distribution.

This prevents us from using our Xcode Cloud “Archive & TestFlight” workflow:

  • The archive succeeds.
  • Development and App Store Connect exports succeed.
  • Xcode Cloud then automatically attempts an Ad Hoc export.
  • The Ad Hoc export fails, causing the entire archive action to fail and the TestFlight post-action to be skipped.

The export log reports:

Entitlement com.apple.developer.mail-client not found and could not be included in profile. This likely is not a valid entitlement and should be removed from your entitlements file.

We have reproduced this in two consecutive Xcode Cloud runs. We also confirmed that:

  • The App ID has the Default Mail App capability enabled.
  • The entitlement is present and correctly spelled in the app’s entitlements file.
  • The App ID’s provisioning support lists Development and App Store Connect, but not Ad Hoc.
  • Our Xcode Cloud workflow does not expose an option to disable the automatically attempted Ad Hoc export.

This appears to match these previous reports:

We also opened an Apple Developer Support case (102945477410). Developer Support directed us to the forums and indicated that this issue would need to be handled by DTS engineers.

I can provide our Team ID, Developer Support case number, Xcode Cloud run identifiers, and any other account details privately if needed.

Thank you!

Default Mail App entitlement missing Ad Hoc support
 
 
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