“Your binary is not optimized for iPhone 5” (ITMS-90096) when submitting

Question

this is my first ios app and when i try to submit it to the app store it gives me the ITMS-90096 error.

Answer 1

Question is already answered and works as well, just adding one more answer as i got similar error in different scenario.

In my case i was using LaunchScreen.xib which is alternative to using splash images.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/LaunchImages.html

As stated in above link "In iOS 8 and later, you can create a XIB or storyboard file instead of a static launch image."

But even after using XIB i got this error.

To solve this i took screenshot of splash from 4 inch device running iOS 8, which was 640 × 1136 pixel. Renamed it to "Default-568h@2x.png" added it to top level in project bundle.

Reason behind this error could be :

When apple transitioned from 3.5 inch devices to 4.0 devices, this image was compulsory otherwise app used to run in letterbox mode ( On 4 inch devices you will see black bars on top and bottom of application ). So when i tried to run my application on 4 inch device/simulator running iOS 7.1 it was indeed running into letterbox mode ( when i only used .xib based splash ). The moment i added "Default-568h@2x.png" letterbox mode gone plus apple approved app.