New App Store Connect warning about Apple Push Notification service entitlement

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After I uploaded a new build of my app yesterday with Xcode 16.3, I received an email from App Store Connect about issues with the build:

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ITMS-90078: Missing potentially required entitlement - Your app, or a library that’s included in your app, uses Apple Push Notification service (APNs) registration APIs, but the APS Environment Entitlement isn’t included in the app signature’s entitlements.

However, my app doesn't use APNs registration APIs. It does use CloudKit, which is my only guess about what could be triggering the email.

I've never seen this warning before with previous builds of the app, and the only change in the new build was a small bug fix.

Has anyone else seen this?

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bixcorp OP

4d

Same for me. I got the message after upgrading Xcode version to 16.3.

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dutton OP

3d

Same for me. My app has has never used APNs. It's probably had a hundred+ previous builds and I've never had this message before.

I was using Xcode 16.2 on my desktop but can see that Xcode Cloud (which I used to build the release) is using 16.3.

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Lextar OP

3d

Same here for a new build compiled and uploaded with Xcode 16.3.

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rdavis0521 OP

3d

Same exact issue. New build today with 16.3 (installed yesterday) received exact same email.

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