Notarization is forever in progress for macOS app

I'm experiencing consistent notarization issues with my macOS app, where my submissions are stuck "in progress".

When I check the status after a while, I'm facing 404 errors, and the notarytool reports that the "submission Id does not exist."

I've attempted to notarize it on different days, but with no success or clarifying error messages. Here are some of my notarization attempts that are still in progress:

  • Jan 8, 2024: 25C31477-5893-4CAB-91AE-7900C261A1E4
  • Jan 15, 2024:
  • Feb 7, 2024: 92B5B694-0952-4AE4-8BA3-2BBF54C96578
  • Feb 9, 2024: 3B3E047C-2B83-4499-9AE6-0B4F7922F5C2
  • Feb 10, 2024: C98A25BD-5A27-4112-AC99-6420599E30ED

For an unknown reason I was able to notarize the app on 26 January, which was the only time it worked in 2024. As background, I had been notarizing this app without problem in 2023 for many months.

I am able to correctly sign the app and export it without the notarization, and use it in my other Macbooks.

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I am having a similar problem today. A few days ago, my notarization was working perfectly and notarized within 30 - 90 seconds. But today, it is constantly stuck "In Progress". There was apparently server maintenance completed this morning - not sure if that had an impact.

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I just had a similar issue today.

Couldn't notarize anything for couple hours — notarization just took forever.

Just had another attempt — and notarization this time succeeded after some 10 minutes.

I assume notarization servers were broken today for some time. I doesn't explain, of course, the issues you had on other days.

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Leo Braun
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