ITMS 9000: The binary you upload was invalid

Question

When I ran into this issue, my first thought was to search Stack Overflow for solution. I did the search, found several topics. But, unlike my issue, those posters got

Answer 1

I was having the same issue since last night and finally got it to work just now. Had to go through this process

1. Logged in on https://developer.apple.com> > Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles > Provisioning Profiles and revoked my company's Distribution Certificate.

2. Then Xcode > Preferences > Accounts > Apple IDs > (my company) > View Details and refreshed the certificates and Provisioning Profiles. It prompted that no Distribution Certificate was found on the Developer Profile and offered to request one on my behalf, which it did.

3. Launched Keychain Access > Certificates and removed all of the expired Certificates (somehow I had a few of them)

4. I went back to https://developer.apple.com> > Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles > Provisioning Profiles and edited all of my manually managed Provisioning Profiles (Development — which had to be re-generated — and Distribution — which had to be linked to the newly created Distribution Certificate and generated again)

5. Once again Xcode > Preferences > Accounts > Apple IDs > (my company) > View Details and refreshed the certificates and Provisioning Profiles.

Credit to Rodrigo on the apple dev forums

Answer 2

It's on Apple's side. I tried to validate a couple of apps that worked last night, no changes in code, credentials, or Xcode and this is what I get.

Answer 3

Apple iTunes' Connect server is down at the moment. I have tried almost everything, but all failed.

I suggest as above to take some rest and try upload after an hour or so.

Answer 4

I've had the same issue and have found out that my Provisioning Profile for Distribution "somehow" disappeared from the Apple Developer Portal. But when I tried to re-create it, I received error message about the existing one (which I couldn't find at all).

Finally, I've just created a brand new Distribution Provisioning Profile, downloaded and installed it. In the end, I was able to validate the application package and upload was successful.

Answer 5

Yesterday, I had to regenerate an expired distribution certificate and got errors each time. Now it works, but I got the invalid binary error. It looks like Apple have done some changes and missed up something.

There might be a link between a change in certificates yesterday and the invalid binary error today, which gives a possible explanation of this problem.

Answer 6

In my case I updated my Mac version and it worked fine afterwards.