Adding Entitlements.plist crashes the IOS publish

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Adding Entitlements.plist crashes the IOS publish

Jai Holloway 60

I have just upgraded a .NET 8 MAUI app to .NET 10 and one of the requirements is that I have an Entitlements.plist file for access to the keychain.

My publish is failing with a missing ResourceRule.plist file, but I followed all the instructions of adding an entitlements.plist file. As a note, I created a new app and added Entitlements.plist to that, with the same entitelement and it crashed on the publish too.

I cannot publish and this is now urgent. Any help would be appreciated.

Michael Le (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 11,320 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-06T10:47:09.9966667+00:00
Hello, I went through your previous thread and there isn’t enough detail in the current info to determine the root cause yet.

To move forward, could you provide a bit more detail from your environment?

the full error output from the archive step (not just the summary line)

confirmation that Platforms/iOS/Entitlements.plist exists on disk at that exact path (not only visible in solution explorer)

whether you're using Pair to Mac, and if so, whether the file is present on the Mac build machine

whether your .csproj still contains any legacy settings such as:
<CodesignResourceRules>
(this is deprecated and can trigger misleading errors during the signing step)

Given the symptoms, this is likely related to how the entitlements file is being resolved during code signing rather than an actual missing ResourceRules.plist.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Jai Holloway 60 Reputation points

2026-05-06T12:01:12.86+00:00

I can confirm that Entitlements.plist is in Platforms/IOS and that it is correct. What I saw from the previous AI answer is that the provisioning profile needs to have a matching entitlement. I can't seem to select the provisioning profile that I need, it is not in the list and when I manually enter it into my csproj the archive fails with no matching provisioning profile.
Jai Holloway 60 Reputation points

2026-05-07T07:52:28.0533333+00:00

I sorted out the provisioning profile, but now it is still saying that i have a missing resourcerules.plist file. The entitlements file is correct, in the correct place and the bundle identifier is correct. I am using the correct provisioning profile and the correct certificate, but it still won't publish

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Michael Le (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 11,320 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-06T10:47:09.9966667+00:00

Hello, I went through your previous thread and there isn’t enough detail in the current info to determine the root cause yet.

To move forward, could you provide a bit more detail from your environment?

the full error output from the archive step (not just the summary line)

confirmation that Platforms/iOS/Entitlements.plist exists on disk at that exact path (not only visible in solution explorer)

whether you're using Pair to Mac, and if so, whether the file is present on the Mac build machine

whether your .csproj still contains any legacy settings such as:
<CodesignResourceRules>
(this is deprecated and can trigger misleading errors during the signing step)

Given the symptoms, this is likely related to how the entitlements file is being resolved during code signing rather than an actual missing ResourceRules.plist.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Jai Holloway 60 Reputation points

2026-05-06T12:01:12.86+00:00

I can confirm that Entitlements.plist is in Platforms/IOS and that it is correct. What I saw from the previous AI answer is that the provisioning profile needs to have a matching entitlement. I can't seem to select the provisioning profile that I need, it is not in the list and when I manually enter it into my csproj the archive fails with no matching provisioning profile.
Jai Holloway 60 Reputation points

2026-05-07T07:52:28.0533333+00:00

I sorted out the provisioning profile, but now it is still saying that i have a missing resourcerules.plist file. The entitlements file is correct, in the correct place and the bundle identifier is correct. I am using the correct provisioning profile and the correct certificate, but it still won't publish

Answer 1

Hello @Jai Holloway ,

So I have looked through what you have shared on the other thread, and I do have some suspicion something is still referencing ResourceRules.plist during bundle resource preparation. To confirm this, can you please share:

Your full .csproj, or at least every section containing:

    ResourceRules
    CodesignResourceRules
    BundleResource
    MauiAsset
    None
    Content
    CodesignEntitlements

A “find in files” screenshot for:
```
    ResourceRules
```
```
    CodesignResourceRules
```
You can use the Code Search in VS with Ctrl + T or Find with Ctrl + Shift + F and make sure to check all files in the project.
And check your project properties to make sure the custom resources rules is defined.
Also, because the error path is under: ~/Library/Caches/maui/PairToMac/Builds/, please try clearing the Pair to Mac build cache on the mac:
```
    rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/maui/PairToMac/Builds/
```
If you previously built Xamarin/iOS projects on the same mac, also check whether this exists and clear it:
```
    rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Xamarin/mtbs/builds/
```
Then disconnect/reconnect Pair to Mac from Visual Studio, delete bin and obj locally, and try archive again.

Thank you for your time.

Jai Holloway 60 Reputation points

2026-05-07T12:41:57.2533333+00:00

Further to my previous comment. I now have a working archive, an ipa and it installs, but it crashes. I have a feeling it's entitlements that's making it crash. I just don't know enough about MAUI to be sure though

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