Change App ID of Apple Watch App

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I have recently transferred some of my apps from one account to another. When I did this the App IDs also transferred. However, the App IDs did not transfer for the WatchKit Apps or WatchKit Extensions.

I have tried to upload and after the upload has completed and appears in iTunes Connect Prerelease I receive an email about CFBundleIdentifier Collision.

I then tried to change the App ID for the Apple Watch app and see this error when uploading:

Attempting to change bundle identifier from com.domain.myapp.watchkitapp to com.domain.myapp.watchkitapp2 is disallowed for bundle MyApp.app/PlugIns/MyApp WatchKit Extension.appex/MyApp WatchKit App.app.

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks

just FYI "IDs" never has an apostrophe (no plural has an apostrophe) — Fattie, Sep 01 '15 at 17:53
I was using the apostrophe as they are the ID's belonging to the Apps that I transferred. — Tom Coomer, Sep 01 '15 at 17:56
hey Tom! good thinking, but in the specific examples at hand it should have been like this, IDs. rock on! — Fattie, Sep 01 '15 at 18:02
i'm going through this same thing with them now. they told me to delete the old app id's and recreate them on the new dev program, but that didn't work. i tried changing the app id's for the watchkit app/ext and that didn't work either. so i can't use the old app id's, but am not allowed to change them either. i'll report back here with an answer if i can ever get a build through — Jon B, Sep 01 '15 at 18:24
I had to contact Apple to help transfer them over. I am still trying to get the issue solved. — Tom Coomer, Nov 03 '15 at 21:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '16 at 00:12

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Apple manually transferred the App ID for my Apple Watch App so I was able to upload to the new account.

answered Aug 08 '16 at 00:12

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They responded me back with this :`They’ve advised me that this is expected behavior, and that we are unable to the bundle Id of the app. At this time, you may resubmit the app under a new bundle identifier. Now please keep in mind that it would be be a new app and it won’t be delivered as an update, because there is no way to change the bundle ID of a shipping app and maintain the app update mechanism.` This is ridiculous !!!!!! – iOS.Lover Aug 11 '16 at 19:01

Change App ID of Apple Watch App

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