'Invalid IPA: the .app must be in a “Payload” (case-sensitive) folder.'

Question

Application Loader 2.9.1 / XCode 5.1.1 Mac Os X 10.8.5

I have a .ipa and tried to upload it through Application Loader but I got this error :

IPA is invalid, it does not include a payload directory.

What can I do ?

Answer 1

Make sure the key "LSRequiresIPhoneOS" in the info.plist has the value "YES"

Answer 2

Make sure the key “Application requires iPhone environment” Value is YES

in the info.plist

Like this http://xcode5.tistory.com/entry/iOS-The-IPA-is-invalid-it-does-not-include-a-Payload-directory

Answer 3

I faced same issue, but I resolved by doing three things:

1. check in your plist file this key exist CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion and it value should be 6.0

2. check your icon file and icon files key in plist and they have all icons of your game that support iOS 7, please check all icon should have extension .png

3. check your 3rd party sdk that included in your project in right way or not. my project has problem with revmoe also

Answer 4

Open your Info.plist file and click plus(+) and write Info Dictionary Version which is 6.0 and clean app and upload it Again. now you get clear Idea.

Note: Make iPa file to .Zip format and try again.

Answer 5

Possible solution for some, worked for me...

I struggled with this for a couple hours, tried several different things that I found through researching all the different solutions people have posted online, but nothing worked. I then went into "edit scheme", then into the "info" section under "run" and found that the "Build configuration" option was set to "debug." I thought this to be odd, so I changed it to "release", and validation finally worked!

I had recently submitted an update a couple weeks earlier, and everything worked fine. I had added localizations to this new update, but didn't see anything that may have caused things in the project to go wrong. I noticed that since my last update though (only two weeks ago) some of my project's data had been automatically reverted back to the first version of the app. For example, my version code was set to 1.0, but the last update was 1.3. Also, my build version went back to 1, but should have been 4. I don't know why this happened, but it did, and I'm guessing that this automatic revert perhaps changed my build configuration also, causing the "IPA invalid" "No payload" error. Any ideas?

Answer 6

In the target project - Build Settings - Packaging. You should verify that the path is correct info.plist.
Once linked, clean the project and compile

Answer 7

A couple of answers here are both "right", but took a bit of pondering for me to figure out how to actually implement - I'm no "plist guru".

If you already have Application requires iPhone environment in the GUI in xcode, then Cruz JWK's answer is an easy no-brainer: just toggle it to YES.

But what if you don't?

"ecume des jours" says, succinctly

Make sure the key "LSRequiresIPhoneOS" in the info.plist has the value "YES"

But how?

It turns out that the answer is like this:

<key>LSRequiresIPhoneOS</key>
<true/>

Once you put this in your plist file, suddenly you will have Application requires iPhone environment in your xcode settings, and it will be Boolean: YES.

The link between "make it YES" and "set the key to <true/>" wasn't obvious to me. I started with setting it as <string>YES<string/>, which didn't work.

Answer 8

I got this error when i archived through xcode 6 and exported through xcode 5.1.1 (Exporting through xcode 6 requires team/account info). Later using xcode 6.3 for both purposes fixed my issue.

Note: When i tried the plist solutions, it was already there and error was keeping coming.

Hope it helps!

Answer 9

I had this same problem and tried many answers from internet and non worked. Then I searched Apple documentation files and came across this link.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/UploadingYourApptoiTunesConnect/UploadingYourApptoiTunesConnect.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012582-CH36-SW2

Basically do the code signing and build your App against a device and then you go to "Product -> Archives" in Xcode menu and from there you validate the package and use the upload button there to upload your bundle to App store.

Hope this helps.

All this time I used Application uploader and this is the first time I am using Archives to submit my app as described in the above Apple's guide.

Xcode 7.

Answer 10

That means that you don't have application in iTunes connect with "Prepare for Submission" status. Check iTunes Connect