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Cannot log in with the Apple account due to DecodingError #447
Description
Neither the app nor the CLI works.
$ /opt/homebrew/Cellar/xcodes/1.6.2/bin/xcodes install 26.0
Apple ID:
Apple ID Password:
The operation couldn’t be completed. (DecodingError.dataCorrupted(Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [], debugDescription: "The given data was not valid JSON.", underlyingError: Optional(Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected character '<' around line 1, column 1." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected character '<' around line 1, column 1., NSJSONSerializationErrorIndex=0}))))
The operation couldn’t be completed. (DecodingError.dataCorrupted(Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [], debugDescription: "The given data was not valid JSON.", underlyingError: Optional(Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected character '<' around line 1, column 1." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected character '<' around line 1, column 1., NSJSONSerializationErrorIndex=0}))))
Reacted by Grant Davis, Mathis Detourbet, cyypherus, Denys Dovzhenko, David Wee, Kirill Kudaev, Forest Katsch, Philipp Gewinner and Roldán Galán
Reacted by Hidetaka Toriyama, Jaime Blasco and Anton L
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jamesblasco commentedon Sep 25, 2025
Same problem with Xcodes Version 3.0.2 (34)
Iron-Ham commentedon Dec 8, 2025
Still occurring on 1.6.2
rafaelnobrekz commentedon Feb 24, 2026
This is happening to me on Sequoia. Any tips on how to solve it? Or is this tool abandoned perhaps?
pan93412 commentedon Feb 26, 2026
I have switched to the App Store distribution a while ago. It works.