ppq.apple.com returning 502 Bad Gateway - Unable to verify developer apps on device

Phew! Glad I'm not alone. I can now (peacefully?) ignore the error until it is back up

Same - Xcode 26.3, iPhone 17 26.3 - worked fine last night, now even new blank app just dies. things install, nothing can run. Tried all standard stuff.

Same problem. I've been dealing with this all day, until GPT told me about this thread. Mine is a Flutter project. I get "The application could not be launched because the Developer App Certificate is not trusted." from Xcode, and "Unable to Verify App" in iOS.

same thing here. here is what I have tried:

• Tested on iPhone on both Wi‑Fi and cellular: same failure.
• -Checked iPhone Settings → General → VPN & Device Management: no developer cert/profile shown to “trust”.
• Regenerated signing in EAS:
• Ran eas credentials -p ios (logged into Apple Developer team)
• Deleted/revoked the existing Apple Distribution certificate
• Let EAS generate a new Distribution certificate and new Ad Hoc provisioning profile including the iPhone UDID.
• Rebuilt multiple times after credential reset:
• Verified the iPhone UDID was included in the ad-hoc profile by re-selecting devices
• Ran eas device:create (Website flow)
• Rebuilt and chose “No, let me choose devices again”, selected the target iPhone.
• Checked Apple verification endpoint reachability from iPhone:
• https://ppq.apple.com intermittently returned 502 Bad Gateway, later returned ok.
• Checked EAS build list and ensured installing the latest build ID from March 10, 2026 (not older IPAs signed with the revoked cert).
• • Noted possible interaction with VPN config on device (VPN config appears to disappear after reboot), suggesting network/proxy/filter could be involved.

same issue here, Glad I found this site by Claude. Without Claude, I’d probably still be wandering around tonight.

Same. Issue started earlier. Nothing works so just have to wait it out.

Im getting code 200 now when I do the "url -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://ppq.apple.com" . But I am still getting hit with the "Unable to Verify App" when I try to open my app. Anyone managed to get it working? Thanks

Seeing the same issue here.

My app had been working fine for about a month, but suddenly it started showing “Not Verified” and won’t launch anymore. The Verify App option in Settings also doesn’t seem to complete the verification.

I’ve already tried several things:

• rebooting the iPhone
• reinstalling the app (both latest and older builds)
• rebuilding and running the app from Xcode
• trying to sideload via SideStore (but SideStore itself now shows Not Verified)

Nothing seems to fix it so far.

I also contacted Apple Support and opened a case about this. From what I was told, since this involves developer-signed apps installed via Xcode, it needs to be escalated to the relevant developer/business support team rather than standard troubleshooting.

Given that multiple developers seem to be seeing the same behavior at the same time, this might be related to the verification service rather than something specific to the app build.

Has anyone found a workaround, or are we waiting for this to be resolved on Apple’s side?

App installs but won’t launch on iPhone: “profile has not been explicitly trusted by the user”

My app builds and installs on a physical iPhone, but it will not launch.

Setup:

Flutter 3.38.7 Xcode 26.3 iPhone 15 Pro Max iOS 26.3.1 Exact error: ERROR: The application failed to launch. (com.apple.dt.CoreDeviceError error 10002)

Unable to launch com.sherpa-map.routestudio because it has an invalid code signature, inadequate entitlements or its profile has not been explicitly trusted by the user. (FBSOpenApplicationErrorDomain error 3)

The confusing part is that on the iPhone, Settings > General > VPN & Device Management only shows VPN and Sign in to work or school account, so there is no obvious developer trust option to tap.

Is this a current iOS/Xcode issue, or is there a new trust flow for developer-signed apps?

Same issue :/

same here. unable to verify

goddamm I wish id found this earlier. just spent so long banging my head against the desk on this.

Hi, I'ts the same from my side :-(

Guys at Apple, please get this fixed quickly, deadlines are burning :-)

I've gotten OK, Bad-Gateway, Gateway Time-Out on four different systems. Even when OK is returned, it takes a while to get a response. This started almost exactly at 10am pacific time for me. Like many of you I used the security command line to check my certs, checked my firewall (PFSense), and even switch my build system and my target iPad to use my iPhone personal hot-spot, in order to bypass my infrastructure and still, no-joy. After reading your posts, I have become convinced that this is an Apple services issue, even though their status page says everything is working.

More information. I have another project (Project-B) I'm working on, which is being developed on a different machine. Project-B installs on the same target iPad with no issues. I migrated the failing project (Project-A) over to this machine and added the missing certificates to the keychain so that the failing project would build. Even on this second system, I'm consistently getting the error for project-a but not for project-b. So, apparently this failure is specific to the type of certificate or provisioning for the target app, it seams.

Project-A: Hardware app using DriverKit, custom USB hardware, microphone, camera, etc. Only viable on iPadOS with an M-Processor.

Project-B: SwiftUI, SwiftData, document-based. Does use a FLIR camera but does not require DriverKit. Also uses microphone and camera.

Are any of you using DriverKit or working with anything that corresponds to Project-A? Have you tried build a simple sample app that does nothing special; does it work?

I’m seeing the same issue here.

Started on March 10, 2026, and it seems to affect all developer-signed apps on physical devices. I’ve reproduced it across multiple apps and devices after trying the usual fixes.

On-device, my message is:

Unable to Verify App An internet connection is required to verify the trust of the developer cert

It looks like an Apple-side verification outage affecting dev app trust and certs.

Would be great to get confirmation from Apple and an ETA for resolution.

Same problem here, raised a support ticket a few hours ago for this. Tried different device combinations, profiles, accounts, new certs, networks etc. Hopefully Apple will fix this soon.

Same here. Started about two hours ago for me.

Same error, for ~2hrs now.

But curl returns successful, confusingly.

curl -v https://ppq.apple.com

• Host ppq.apple.com:443 was resolved.
• IPv6: (none)
• IPv4: 17.33.192.136, 17.33.193.105, 17.33.194.109
• Trying 17.33.192.136:443...
• Connected to ppq.apple.com (17.33.192.136) port 443
• ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
• (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
• CAfile: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/site-packages/certifi/cacert.pem
• CApath: none
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
• (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384 / [blank] / UNDEF
• ALPN: server accepted h2
• Server certificate:
• subject: CN=ppq.apple.com; O=Apple Inc.; ST=California; C=US
• start date: Jan 21 17:47:41 2026 GMT
• expire date: Feb 17 18:28:16 2027 GMT
• subjectAltName: host "ppq.apple.com" matched cert's "ppq.apple.com"
• issuer: CN=Apple Server Authentication CA; OU=Certification Authority; O=Apple Inc.; C=US
• SSL certificate verify ok.
• using HTTP/2
• [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://ppq.apple.com/
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: ppq.apple.com]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.7.1]
• [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: /]

GET / HTTP/2 Host: ppq.apple.com User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 Accept: /

• Request completely sent off

< HTTP/2 200 < server: Apple < date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:45:52 GMT < content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 < content-length: 2 < x-b3-sampled: 1 < x-b3-spanid: XXX < x-b3-traceid: XXX < strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains < x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN < x-content-type-options: nosniff < x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block <

• Connection #0 to host ppq.apple.com left intact

ok%

Apple, help us!

Same for me, but with different Team IDs the experience is different. Some of them work, and some don’t.

Same problem. However, Apple's system status appears healthy. Urgent update needed.

Same issue here since this evening (March 10, 2026) on both iPhone and iPad, paid Apple Developer Program account.

After extensive troubleshooting — new certificates, new provisioning profiles, device restarts, testing on both Wi-Fi and cellular — I can confirm this is server-side.

https://ppq.apple.com is returning 502 Bad Gateway intermittently. It sometimes responds with "OK", which makes the issue harder to diagnose as it appears to be working when checked manually.

Awaiting a fix from Apple.

Same issue here, cannot launch my build on my phone, stuck in a verify loop.

Same problem.

Same here! Xcode 26.4 beta but also able to repro on 26.2

Attempted fix as detailed here:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/800521

And purged my provisioning profiles as described in step 2:

Go to ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/Provisioning Profiles and delete all your profiles.

Reloaded xcode, and same issue