Cannot disabled Game Center in my app

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Created Aug ’23

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Hi everyone. Well this is a new one. I went to make a minor update in my MacOS app and when I go to submit the new version in AppStore Connect it complains that Your build contains the Game Center entitlement. I do not (nor have I ever) used Game Center.

I read this thread: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/657552 and have confirmed the SpoticaMenu.app.xcent contains: "com.apple.developer.game-center" = 1; even though the SpoticaMenu.entitlements file doesn't mention gamecenter.

I even explicitly added

	<key>com.apple.developer.game-center</key>
	<false/>

as a test, but it's still doing it.

I'm using Xcode Version 14.3.1 (14E300c).

Any ideas?

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k_maker OP

Aug ’23

I had this issue too. In my case, the identifier associated with the app (here https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/identifiers/list) had Game Center enabled. I've had this enabled for several years without any need to enable Game Center during submission. After disabling Game Center for the identifier, I had to manually delete the old provisioning profile on my machine (~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles). This is the profile enabling Game Center, so you can preview it to verify this is your case too before going through all these steps.

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Answer 2

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’23

I've had this enabled for several years without any need to enable Game Center during submission.

Right. Historically Xcode treated the Game Center entitlement weirdly. I believe we fixed this, so it now behaves like a normal entitlement. Given that, App Store Connect has started checking it like a normal entitlement.

Game Center entitlement and configuration requirement has a bunch of info about this requirement.

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