iOS app submission - archive does not contain an info.plist

Question

I am trying to submit an archive to the app store with an old app i was given. I keep receiving two errors CFBundleShortVersionString key must be in the plist and more tro

Answer 1

I had the same problem with the same two error messages. The Info.plist was in fact in the package, but it did not contain the CFBundleShortVersionString. The first error (Archive does not contain Info.plist) is given by the Apple system by mistake.

In my case I had several targets in the project, and I had added the CFBundleShortVersionString to the wrong target (not the one I was validating with Apple).

To be extra-sure, do

• export the archive in question for ad-hoc distribution
• unzip the *.ipa file
• Inspect the Payload/your.app/Info.plist file
• Check whether it contains the CFBundleShortVersionString