Up until a month ago, I was able to build my iOS mobile app, and create an ipa file for distribution to my iPhone. However, since then, my role appears to have changed in the Tools > Xamarin > Apple Accounts from agent to XCODE_FREE_USER. This is the only thing that I spotted that had changed. Apart from the fact that it had been exactly one year since I joined the Apple Developer program.
Currently any attempt to change to either Automatic or Manual Provisioning in the iOS Bundle Signing, or to re-download the current profile for my development and distribution certificates in the Tools > Xamarin > Apple Accounts ends with “Authentication service is unavailable”.
Over the last month, I’ve literally tried everything short of a complete Visual Studio uninstall and reinstall. So far I have tried the following:
deleted the local XMA folder and restarted vs
upgraded vs 2019 to the latest version 16.9.3
upgraded my Mac OS to Catalina 10.15.4
deleted my dev and dist certificates and profile in my Apple Dev portal and re-added them
removed and re-added many times my Apple ID in Tools > Xamarin > Apple Accounts and even reset my password
manually deleted the certificates and profiles from local iOS cache before attempted reload
I am at my wits end. Can someone please help? Surely there should be a simple fail proof procedure to reset and synchronise the security settings on both my Mac and Visual Studio for windows. Cheers.