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Invalid iPhone Application Binary

Asked 2008-09-06T23:18:22.007
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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. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate.

Note: The details of original question have been removed, as this page has turned into a repository for all information about possible causes of that particular error message.

For general information on submitting iPhone applications to the App Store, see Steps to upload an iPhone application to the AppStore.

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Same problem, different solution.

In my case, I was compressing the file using zip -r myapp.zip myapp.app Turns out, the zip command screwed the bundle. Compressing it from the finder made it work.

answered 2009-10-09T01:48:28.347
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I just went through this hassle (again) but this time I found that my distribution profile had a status of "Invalid". If you think everything else is right, double-check the status in the portal and renew/re-download anything that isn't in the Active state.

answered 2010-09-23T18:57:59.963
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I had a problem with this and the 4.3 GM SDK. One of our apps would not make it past upload received. It turned out to be a provisioning profile issue. I regenerated the app store profile and it worked fine.

answered 2011-03-07T19:23:37.843
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For me the problem was solved by resaving a PNG image with the non-interlaced option. In previous versions interlaced png were allowed, but know this images can cause the invalid binary.

My apple message: Corrupt Icon File - The icon file iconGQ@2x.png appears to be corrupt. Your icon must not be an interlaced PNG file.

You can see if the PNG is interlaced using the command "file" in the terminal: Eva-Madrazos-MacBook-Pro-2:GQ 7 integracion ads Eva$ file *.png Default.png: PNG image data, 320 x 480, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced

Good luck, Eva

answered 2012-08-28T11:54:59.520
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I want to point out the possibility to email Apple and ask them to check their logs. I did just that, after having tried loads of things first. It was necessary to remind them after almost four weeks, but finally they replied and pointed to the exact spot of the issue.

The problem in my case was that I had previously tried other app icons, and a reference to the old image still remained in 'CFBundleIcons'. I used the drag and drop functionality to set the icon, but I didn't notice that the old content wasn't completely cleared before the new reference was added.

To see the faulty reference it was necessary to expand the arrows to view each and every sub element in the plist file. One tips is to right-click in the file and select the option for viewing the raw content. In that way you will not need to expand anything.

answered 2012-10-18T05:49:58.563

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