This has been going on for at least a couple of hours for us: notarizing doesn't complete. Our last job ran for over 90 minutes before CircleCI timed it out. We're using xcrun notarytool submit with the --wait option; it contined to say "Current status: In Progress" for, as I said, 90 minutes or so. (Normally it takes about 70 seconds.)
https://developer.apple.com/system-status/ says everything is normal. This does not seem to be the case for us. 😄
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Hi everyone,
Native Instruments is encountering a critical issue with the notarization process. The xcrun notary submit command appears to be stuck and is not completing, preventing us from notarizing our apps.
Specifically, the command hangs indefinitely.
This issue started today. We've already tried the following troubleshooting steps:
Cancelling and re-running the command
Checking my internet connection
Checking the Apple System Status page
Cleaning the build folder
using a different machine
This is a major blocker for our company, as it's preventing from from us from testing and releasing some of our products.
It seems to be a similar issue as reported in https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/772542?page=2.
Has anyone else experienced xcrun notary submit getting stuck like this? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm particularly interested in knowing if there are any known issues with the notarization service currently.
Details about my setup:
Xcode Version: 16.1
macOS Version: 14.7.1
App Type: macOS app
Thanks in advance for your help!
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
I had submitted my app for notarization and it shows the below error -
"status": "Rejected",
"statusSummary": "Team is not yet configured for notarization. Please contact Developer Programs Support at developer.apple.com under the topic Development and Technical / Other Development or Technical Questions.",
"statusCode": 7000,
I have raised a ticket in the support but no reply yet.
Kindly help ASAP
I'm developing an app using Electron Builder for a potential port to Windows in the future. I've had a heck of a time getting credentials to work and felt like I was in some sort of time loop doing the same things over and over again to no avail. I finally was able to sign my app, sign the .dmg and start the notarization process. That was last night and it still says "In Progress". If anyone is able to push it through, that would be awesome! (id: 2520e724-7069-408a-9ea4-60b23e8435a7)
I saw another thread on here where people stated it was taking forever, I'm not sure if this is just because its my first time, but I was hoping to get a beta out to testers this weekend. I just need a version that doesn't get flagged as "Malware" by Gatekeeper. This is just for a standalone macOS application, not the App Store.
Is there a reason that this process takes an absurd amount of time? Will it always be like this or is this just a fluke and it was a bad time to try?
Hey there,
I'm experiencing an issue with notarization of my macOS application, which is blocking a release.
We have signing/notarization hooked up to our CI process, both for prior releases as well as development builds (at the trunk tip). The notarization process has typically taken anywhere from a few minutes to a few tens of minutes, but for our most recent release, it's taking an unreasonably long time.
I've compiled the submission info for each build (+ reattempted notarizations) below. What's interesting is that the oldest one was accepted- however, it timed out our CI process, so we never actually released it.
Subsequent builds are more or less identical in terms of their content, however, they've been stewing in the notarization process for over 13 hours in some cases.
% xcrun notarytool info 67413dae-64f5-4372-972d-e0ac158e18e3
Successfully received submission info
createdDate: 2025-04-02T16:28:25.999Z
id: 67413dae-64f5-4372-972d-e0ac158e18e3
name: Warp Vault.app.zip
status: In Progress
% xcrun notarytool info 0c72b243-4a8d-4976-a97b-75689d7e2497
Successfully received submission info
createdDate: 2025-04-02T05:49:05.861Z
id: 0c72b243-4a8d-4976-a97b-75689d7e2497
name: Warp Vault.app.zip
status: In Progress
% xcrun notarytool info 8e2edfc2-58bc-4b33-bc8e-078155759a81
Successfully received submission info
createdDate: 2025-04-02T05:23:28.870Z
id: 8e2edfc2-58bc-4b33-bc8e-078155759a81
name: Warp Vault.app.zip
status: In Progress
% xcrun notarytool info 8fb17b0c-ace4-4b6f-bef8-68d22696814d
Successfully received submission info
createdDate: 2025-04-02T05:07:48.187Z
id: 8fb17b0c-ace4-4b6f-bef8-68d22696814d
name: Warp Vault.app.zip
status: Accepted
At the time of checking, the UTC date was:
% TZ="UTC" date
Wed Apr 2 18:42:14 UTC 2025
It's interesting to me that the notarization process is taking this long. We've notarized many development builds (with debugging flags enabled) in the time between our last public release and our attempt to notarize this one. What's more, the original build for this release was notarized within the span of about 15 minutes, but subsequent submissions of the same build have hung for tens of hours.
My two questions are:
How can I get our pending notarizations "unstuck"?, and
To prevent these types of hangs in the future, should I also routinely build/sign/notarize non-debug builds of my application during the development process?
Best regards and many thanks,
Charlton
Hello,
We are currently facing an issue with the Apple Notary Service that is completely blocking our production pipeline.
For the past three days, every single submission has been stuck in the "In Progress" state indefinitely. Some submissions have been pending for over 48 hours, and none of them ever proceed to analysis.
When checking the status via xcrun notarytool history, all entries show "In Progress". Attempting to retrieve logs with xcrun notarytool log always returns: Submission log is not yet available.
This strongly suggests that the processing hasn't even started. This issue occurs consistently from my local machine (MacBook Air M3) and Our GitHub Actions CI workflow.
Both environments are properly configured with Electron + Electron-Builder, and the app is correctly signed and uploaded each time. We have verified multiple times all credentials and code signing settings, no exceptions so far or problems in the pipeline.
Here are a few stuck submission IDs:
This is not a normal delay, it looks like a backend issue affecting our account or this specific App ID. Please escalate this case as soon as possible.
We appreciate your urgent attention.
Best
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
I've been successfully notarizing my apps for a year or so now, with intermittent releases every so often, usually succeeding with notarization in a couple of minutes.
These apps are all written in Python, but I worked through all the jank required to get them to notarize cleanly a while ago and have no issues since.
Today I submitted a couple of builds which have been stuck for hours. They're just "in progress", so no logs I can look at, no emails or anything on my developer account page.
How can I begin to debug this?
Successfully received submission info
createdDate: 2025-06-24T18:43:37.140Z
id: 8d1a1ca9-f0ad-426f-a714-89aaf9e01a07
name: pinpal-2025.6.25.for-notarizing.app.zip
status: In Progress
I should note that in addition to the comment added within 10 minutes of creation of this issue, within the last day, we also have:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/789389
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/789599
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/789995
So it seems pretty likely something is going on on the backend.
It's been over 24h and it's still in progress. Is there a timeout for a failed notarization? or do we just wait for days.. weeks.. moths?
Successfully received submission info
createdDate: 2025-06-25T09:52:03.153Z
id: 2ae713a5-c2e3-432f-84ee-e5d3d4aed621
name: slideshow-city-1.1.0-arm64.dmg
status: In Progress
Its just stuck in progress.
$ xcrun notarytool history --keychain-profile X
Successfully received submission history.
history
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-07-21T16:46:13.233Z
id: X
name: X.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-07-20T18:44:35.683Z
id: X
name: X.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-07-20T11:24:20.319Z
id: X
name: X.dmg
status: In Progress
Its a go app; not simple but not very complicated. It is my first time notarising but even then should it take this long?? 3 days is ridiculous!
Hello Apple Support,
While attempting to staple a notarization ticket for our signed installer package, the stapler command fails with Error 65. Upon investigation, we found that connections to oscdn.apple.com present an SSL certificate issued to a248.e.akamai.net, which does not include oscdn.apple.com in its Subject Alternative Name (SAN).
This mismatch prevents our macOS environment from validating tickets and completing the stapling process.
Steps tried:
Verified notarization status (Accepted).
DNS flushed, tried different DNS (8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1).
curl to oscdn.apple.com consistently fails with SSL error 60.
Please advise on resolving this certificate mismatch.
also when I try to run the stapler command with my pkg
"xcrun stapler staple/Users/mactest/Desktop/IPMPlus_Macos_Installer.signed.pkg"
getting the output like :-
Processing: /Users/mactest/Desktop/IPMPlus_Macos_Installer.signed.pkg
Could not validate ticket for /Users/mac-test/Desktop/IPMPlus_Macos_Installer.signed.pkg
The staple and validate action failed! Error 65.
please help
Thank you.
I’m unable to notarize the executable and the .app — the status has been showing “In Progress” for over an hour. Upon checking the xcrun logs, it indicates that the submission ID was not received. I also noticed there’s an Apple Developer Service outage reported since October 8, 2025. Could you please let me know when this outage is expected to be resolved? It would be very helpful.
During the release of our macOS App, we encountered the following issue:
We need to support dynamic code loading of WebAssembly (wasm) inside our App, mainly by loading WebAssembly (wasm) binary modules.
We discovered a problem: a wasm file is neither an executable nor a bundle, so it cannot be code-signed.
Since our App needs to pass notarization, we have not set the com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory entitlement.
Without setting com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory, loading a wasm module results in an “unsigned code” error that causes the process to crash.
Could you please advise on what we should do to avoid this problem? Is it possible to apply for a special entitlement to allow com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory?
Is the Notary service unavailable again? The system-status page shows it as being green but I am back to receiving the same error as previously which fixed itself once the notary service went green again and I am unable to notarize and staple my Distribution PKG.
I am currently having issues uploading my app to appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/ for notarization. It times out after hanging for a while. I get the following error.
13:42:04 "LocalDataTask <D84AED32-B05B-4439-8BDC-40C0F89B89F1>.<1>"
13:42:04 ), NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out., NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/v2/asp?, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/v2/asp?, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4})
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
Today, I used xcrun notarytool submit to upload my packaged Electron app for macOS—once as a .zip file and once as a .dmg—for Apple notarization. However, both submissions have been stuck at "Current status: In Progress" for several hours now.
I’ve also checked the status using xcrun notarytool info, and it keeps returning status: In Progress.
Could someone please help me understand what might be going wrong?
This is quite urgent—if a technical support engineer or anyone from the team could take a look, I’d be glad to provide the UUIDs of my notarization requests.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
Notarization Rejects Valid Developer ID Certificates - Apple Infrastructure Issue?
Environment
macOS: 15.6.1
Xcode: 26.0.1
Architecture: arm64 (Apple Silicon)
Team ID: W----------
Certificate Status: Valid until 2030 (verified on developer.apple.com)
Problem
Apple's notarization service consistently rejected properly signed packages with error:
"The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate."
Despite:
✅ Valid certificates on developer.apple.com
✅ Local signing succeeds (codesign --verify passes)
✅ Proper certificate/key pairing verified
✅ Package structure correct
Failed Submission IDs
September 2025:
adeeed3d-4732-49c6-a33c-724da43f9a4a
5a910f51-dc6d-4a5e-a1c7-b07f32376079
3930147e-daf6-4849-8b0a-26774fd92c3c
b7fc8e4e-e03c-44e1-a68e-98b0db38aa39
d7dee4a1-68e8-44b5-85e9-05654425e044
da6fa563-ba21-4f9e-b677-80769bd23340
What I've Tried
Re-downloaded fresh certificates from Apple Developer Portal
Verified certificate chain locally
Tested with multiple different builds
Confirmed Team ID matches across all configurations
Verified no unsigned nested components
Waited 3 months for potential propagation delays
Verified all agreements are current and accepted
Re-tested with minimal test package - same error persists
Local Verification
# Certificates present and valid
security find-identity -v -p codesigning | grep "Developer ID"
1) XXXXXXXXXX "Developer ID Application: <<REDACTED>> (W----------)"
2) XXXXXXXXXX "Developer ID Installer: <<REDACTED>> (W----------)"
# Signing succeeds
codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 [app] → Success
Question
This appears similar to thread #784184. After 3 months and ensuring all agreements are signed, the issue persists with identical error.
The certificates work for local signing but Apple's notarization service rejects them. Could this be:
Backend infrastructure issue with Team ID W----------?
Certificate not properly registered in Apple's notarization database?
Known issue requiring Apple Support intervention?
Has anyone else experienced valid Developer ID certificates being rejected specifically by the notarization service while working locally?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
Tags:
App ID
Notarization
Signing Certificates
Code Signing
Hey there!
Thanks so much for all the great posts about this topic!
I'm fairly new to Mac development since a few months back, and I've been really impressed with Apple's developer tools and ecosystem so far. It's been an exciting journey building for macOS!
However, I've hit a bit of a roadblock with the notarization process via direct download and would really appreciate some guidance from you more experienced developers. I understand that Apple has built a well-designed automated system to maintain high security for users, but I'm wondering:
What's the normal timeframe for notarization to complete?
What are usually the most common reasons if it takes longer than expected?
Is there anyone at Apple who can help if the process gets stuck?
I'm really excited to launch my app and continue developing for this amazing platform, so any tips from experienced Apple developers would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks in advance! 🙏
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
Hello,
we have a product package which is structured like this:
/ Installer.pkg
/ Distribution
/ Main Component.pkg
/ Scripts
/ preinstall
/ postinstall
/ helper [ Mach-O executable ]
/ Payload
/ Application Bundle.app
/ Another Component.pkg
...
The helper is our custom CLI helper tool which we build and sign and plan to use it in pre/post install scripts.
I'd like to ask if we need to independently notarize and staple the helper executable or just the top level pkg notarization is sufficient in this case?
We already independently notarize and staple the Application Bundle.app so it has ticket attached. But that's because of customers who often rip-open the package and pick only the bundle. We don't plan to have helper executable used outside of installation process.
Thank you,
o/
I am using the xcrun notarytool submit --apple-id xxxxx@gmail.com --password xxxxx--team-id xxxxxx --output-format json --wait --no-progress /my/dmg/file
to notarize my DMG file. But it always gives me back the error,
Error: HTTP status code: 403. A required agreement is missing or has expired. This request requires an in-effect agreement that has not been signed or has expired. Ensure your team has signed the necessary legal agreements and that they are not expired.
I did log in my developer account and found no place to sign any agreement. Actually in the morning when I logged in the developer account, it indeed pop up the agreement for me to sign and I did sign it. But now it seems I don't have any more agreements to sign. So, any ideas about what I should do?
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Notarization
Hello, I've developed an application using Electron with JAVACRIPT. I have managed to deploy to both Windows and the web but having trouble deploying the application to my Mac users.
It's my first time deploying an application for Mac but feel like I'm stuck at the last hurdle and out of ideas so I'm reaching out for help.
My application is successfully signing but during the build and when my Notarize.js is running it seems to get stuck indefinitely.
I can check and see the status of the Notarize attempts but they seem to be stuck "In Progress". Here are the logs.
Successfully received submission history.
history
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-06T00:59:45.245Z
id: 1dc39b5f-fdca-4bf2-a6f6-fa793de2786e
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-04T08:01:36.168Z
id: c575b015-edd6-4e09-8da5-7ae09f4f67db
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T08:30:31.528Z
id: 570ae540-8cce-4418-ab09-7f6be33dc245
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T07:57:56.701Z
id: 42748de8-026a-4663-9fd2-88c7608588d3
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T06:30:19.569Z
id: 5140caa0-df14-491a-b148-82015f9856da
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T05:56:28.916Z
id: 535c6be1-4999-4b3e-9766-42512a8deb67
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T02:51:04.893Z
id: ead2268c-62b2-4b4b-8850-c1cdb5313d6a
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T01:50:51.954Z
id: d0c44281-a788-4704-a057-4620d284516d
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-03T00:48:54.445Z
id: 3d13727c-06a3-49d7-902b-4001522107c3
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T13:35:26.715Z
id: 1823a550-a9ff-467a-8a60-dd3e42305258
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T13:23:41.894Z
id: cbc341a2-9a51-43d6-83ae-713443c84fec
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T12:21:44.561Z
id: 1af34419-655f-49b8-bea0-05b4232c46a7
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T11:34:03.732Z
id: 8c4ab3b5-2ea9-4220-9667-94011bcf76fb
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T11:19:16.052Z
id: 093dfb8a-9058-417d-acd3-8ea5d0bb654a
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T11:13:14.676Z
id: 556b7c1c-d114-4717-b0f7-4f1614ada845
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T10:52:36.834Z
id: ce3d3c8a-d218-4978-8757-2ca9d12aad76
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T09:27:13.535Z
id: b65ec764-baab-444d-809b-e4242d70548b
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T09:27:01.176Z
id: be228acc-e6a2-48f2-937b-5b2962275052
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T09:19:19.182Z
id: d99fc10b-c424-4d0c-a2aa-37a9e9165d91
name: Popcorn-1.0.0.dmg
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T08:55:43.064Z
id: 2e7f8df7-9c0b-4dd0-8df7-8f3428c0bfa0
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T08:19:48.676Z
id: 678355da-e413-4b1a-92a8-776a6ff6a055
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T07:58:48.278Z
id: 8591f8d7-1d57-4e80-af90-d77190160a20
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T07:54:41.193Z
id: f029dfeb-3f14-4f65-83e2-d9356ef6ac00
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T07:27:50.613Z
id: 574f2563-d533-4885-947a-2f57170196af
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T07:09:54.203Z
id: 589f7f3a-d231-4911-8ad6-9d2c15a61ac0
name: popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T05:39:02.574Z
id: 9edd43de-6d14-4743-87fc-ab570bee7399
name: Popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T04:36:12.342Z
id: ba02116d-1aad-4521-8667-ad086b14c1cb
name: Popcorn.zip
status: In Progress
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-01-02T03:22:49.185Z
id: b8585c81-b7f5-4c35-9bd6-62157c6ce4bc
name: Popcorn.zip
status: In Progress