How to overcome Xcode: 'Write permission error'

Question

When trying to delete certificates in Xcode, there is a dialogue pop-up that says Write permission error

I am looking to delete these old certificates to add new ones. It seems they must be deleted in order to use the new certificates that were generated. Is it possible to delete these?

Conidium

you can find these certificates in keychain and delete it directly – Pinnati

Ty for the reply! Yep. The weird thing is I did several times. They are currently still shown in Xcode. They are currently nonexistent in the key chain and in my in my online account at the moment. – Conidium

Even tried deleting the entire derived data folder. – Conidium

Might try reinstalling Xcode but don't want to get locked out. This happened on my iPad mini running iOS 9.3.5 after deleting instagram; got a 'This device doesn't support IG' pop up type of thing...haha – Conidium

I'm in the same situation, did you solve it? – Forkey

deleting the certificate directly in the keychain worked for my team – Moil