Invalid Signature Error when I update in app store

Thank you! Thank YOU! You saved my life!

Just for the record and for other people. I was having the same issue while working on two apps in the same xcode project (lite & premium). I already had my lite app on the store. When I built it and uploaded it, it got rejected with the same message. Even stranger, when I compressed the app folder, it would sometime create 8KB zip files instead of hundreds of kB.
My bundle id hadn't changed, and the mobile provisioning thing was correct. Codesign was giving me the Go

Here is what worked for me
- clean lite target
- close all finder windows
- close xcode
- open xcode
- build lite target for device & distribution profile
- open finder and go to build directory
- compress folder
- upload -> it worked
- clean premium target
- close all finder windows
- close xcode
- open xcode
- build premium target for device & distribution profile
- open finder and go to build directory
- compress folder
- upload -> it worked

Failing to close the finder windows or xcode gave the same error messages.

Hope this helps someone as much as the previous messages helped me!

Hi,

I have tried everything that you said and running the command as
codesign -vvvv myapplication.app

I got the the same result:

myapplication.app: valid on disk
myapplication.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement

So, I should not have the "Signature Error", but I have tried many many times, build and rebuild. The same results.
Could you help ?

Thanks thousands times.

Hi,

I have read again and again all postings and following the [Distribution] all the links from [obtaining Distribution Certificate] to [Verifying Successful Distribution Build] and checking the build result in the [log] that
[embeded.mobileprovision] is in my [Distribution]folder and [codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: xxx" --resource -rules =...etc] using my certificate.
But when I uploaded with my .zip file, I got [Invalid Signature Error...].
Can someone help ?

Thousands thanks.

- Alex

I didn't find the provisioning code from build results, but when i use terminal to test the .app file it was all fine. I couldn't done the submision with iTune connect, but i installed application loader and the .app file was uploaded fine. my app is under review now.

very strange and i don't really understand why iTunes connect reject while application loader can accept it.

I had the same problem and fixed it by copying my application directory from a network drive to the desktop (and rebuilding in xcode).

I only happened to find this solution through trial and error, it was not in the documentation and this error message is not very descriptive. It would be nice if Apple were to mention that the files have to be on the local machine (or perhaps just not on a Windows server).

Hello,

To exchange my experiences on the topic:
I had the same problem. I got it to work by checking the target settings. For some reason they were different than the project settings. I set the "Code signing identity" to "iPhone Distribution" in both settings and it worked.

Regards,
Sebastian Mecklenburg

I wanted to say that this thread really helped me out. For me, I had an ad hoc distribution profile and had to create a new App store one to attach onto my signing certificate. After downloading that and importing the new distribution certificate (it's a .cer file), I had to make sure the signing identities for both the project and the target were set to the new profile.

It helps to name the app store profile something recognizable.. like APP STORE DISTRIBUTION.

Also, I don't know if it made a difference or not, but close all my finder windows, cleaning, restarting xcode, and then building seemed to help.