Invalid iPhone Application Binary

Question

I\'m trying to upload an application to the iPhone App Store, but I get this error message from iTunes Connect:

The binary you uploaded was invalid. T

Answer 1

After trying all of the other fixes listed here we logged a TSI with Apple. Having followed all the steps in Technical Note TN2250 our problem was caused because a sealed resource was missing or invalid. In our case it was ._.DS_Store.

The ".." is called an Apple Double file, and is the result of copying the Xcode Project folder, *unzipped*, onto and back from a file system that doesn't properly support HFS+'s 'resource forks' (used for code signatures). These extra ".." files result and cause code signing verification failure.

To clean the problematic Apple Double files from your Xcode project folder, run the dot_clean command on your Xcode project's folder, do a clean build, and then rearchive and reattempt your submission.

dot_clean /the/path/to/xcode/project

Note: You can just drag the project folder into the terminal to automatically populate the path

There is no message when you run the command but the project build might show a warning about the file when you next build. You can ignore this, the app will validate and submit successfully.