Development team resets on every native:run ios

[abdukhalilovazim]

Every time php artisan native:run ios is run, the ios/ directory
is recreated and the development team setting is lost from Xcode.

Config value development_team in config/nativephp.php is set
but not persisted to the Xcode project properly.

Expected: Team ID should persist across builds
Actual: Team shows as "Unknown Name" after every rebuild

PHP: 8.5
NativePHP: v3
macOS: Sequoia
Xcode: 17

[rjedwardsss]

NativePHP treats the nativephp/ directory as ephemeral, and it gets completely rebuilt on each run. So any manual changes you make inside it (including Xcode project signing settings) will always be wiped. The fix is to not set development_team in config/nativephp.php directly, but instead drive it from your .env file, which is the supported pattern. Make sure your config reads from the env:

// config/nativephp.php
'development_team' => env('NATIVEPHP_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM', ''),

Then in your .env:

NATIVEPHP_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=YOUR_TEAM_ID_HERE

Your development team ID can be found in your Apple Developer account under "Membership details."

If development_team is already wired to env() in your config and it's still showing "Unknown Name", a few things to check:

1. Run php artisan config:clear — Laravel caches config, so stale cache could mean the env value isn't being picked up.
2. Double-check the Team ID — It should be a 10-character alphanumeric string like A1B2C3D4E5. "Unknown Name" in Xcode means the ID is being set but Xcode can't resolve it to a known team on that machine, which usually means either the wrong ID or the Apple ID isn't signed into Xcode under Settings → Accounts.
3. Make sure you're signed into Xcode with the Apple ID tied to that Team ID — Xcode needs the account locally to resolve the team name, even if the ID is technically correct in the project file.

If none of that works and it's genuinely a bug where NativePHP isn't injecting the value into the Xcode project at all, worth filing an issue on the NativePHP mobile repo with the exact config structure you're using.