Identifiers - what do the icons mean?

On the Certificates, Identifiers and Profiles section of the Account section of developer.apple.com, if you manually configure the Capabilities of an App Identifier, there are icons with no tooltips. Does anyone know what they mean? (I'm particularly interested in the two different icons shown in my screenshot, with the same name)

Answered by DTS Engineer in 890279022

I presume you’re talking about the puzzle piece and gear icons in the screenshot you included. If so, they don’t really mean anything.

Having said that, the fact that you have multiple is both interesting and confusing. I believe you have different capabilities that select different USB vendor ID combinations. You might be able to get some insight by clicking the little info (i) button, as shown in Finding a Capability’s Distribution Restrictions. If that’s not sufficient detail — and I suspect that’s the case — then you’ll need to apply the capability to a test App ID and see what entitlements end up a profile generated from that App ID.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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I presume you’re talking about the puzzle piece and gear icons in the screenshot you included. If so, they don’t really mean anything.

Having said that, the fact that you have multiple is both interesting and confusing. I believe you have different capabilities that select different USB vendor ID combinations. You might be able to get some insight by clicking the little info (i) button, as shown in Finding a Capability’s Distribution Restrictions. If that’s not sufficient detail — and I suspect that’s the case — then you’ll need to apply the capability to a test App ID and see what entitlements end up a profile generated from that App ID.

Share and Enjoy

Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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