Submitting App from building in Xcode 6.4

Asked 24/8, 2015 at 5:25 Answered 18/7, 2017 at 17:27

Solved objective-c app-store-connect ios9 xcode7 xcode6.4

I previously built my app in an Xcode 7 beta as my testing device is an iOS 9.0 device. I recently deleted Xcode 7 and began working on my app in Xcode 6.4 (not a beta). 6.4 does not support iOS 9 but my iPhone on an iOS 9 Beta is not uneligible (as it should because 6.4 doesn't support 9.0). Are there some files I can remove so that my device is ineligible? I believe once I fix this problem, I can finally submit a new build for review to iTunes Connect because I shouldn't get this error message when submitting my app:

New apps and app updates submitted to the App Store must be built with public (GM) versions of Xcode 6 or higher and iOS 8 SDK. Do not submit apps built with beta software for store review.

Also, my app is not written in Swift so I cannot do the Swift 2.0 conversion to Swift 1.2.

Expedite answered 24/8, 2015 at 5:25 Comment(0)

Apps that you submit should be developed using the latest version of Xcode from the Mac App Store and should be built for publicly available versions of iOS, OS X, and watchOS — except when GM seeds are available. Now Mac App Store's Xcode is 6.4 and OS X Yosemite is Build 14F27. If you user xcode 6.4 on OS X El Capitan, you should follow the steps:

Using Xcode, then archive your project
Open organizer, find your .xcarchive file
Right click the xcarchive file, choose [Show package Contents]
Find Products/Applications/XXX.app/Info.plist
then change [BuildMachineOSBuild] value to 14F27, just like this:
Now, you can go to Xcode->organizer, then 【Submit to App Store】

Artiste answered 26/8, 2015 at 17:53 Comment(10)

Holy sh*t it worked! Thank you What is this 14F27 code? – Expedite 26/8, 2015 at 19:12

14F27 is a release for Yosemite, You're basically telling the binary that it was built on Yosemite instead of El Cap. – Knawel 3/9, 2015 at 17:55

All right, because el captian now is beta, not the release OS X – Artiste 4/9, 2015 at 7:3

cross your fingers and hope no compatibility issues are there. Usually there are reasons why is Apple saying don't use xcode 6.4 on El Capitan. – Webbed 11/9, 2015 at 8:11

@JurajAntas Any updates on this? Or should i send it with Yosemite? I use Xcode 7 iOS 9 – Kelikeligot 23/9, 2015 at 22:22

In case you need to revert this change. El Capitan has a Build ID of '15A279b' – Extender 30/9, 2015 at 8:22

Did anyone else have to modify the DTSDKBuild, DTPlatformBuild, DTXcodeBuild, or DTXcode values as well? – Extender 5/10, 2015 at 15:12

It is incredible how things get half cooked for developers. Apple hates us. – Cateyed 11/10, 2015 at 0:43

I don't see the info.plist option. Went into the xxx.app and then opened the info.plist there - but I don't see the build machine option – Cultrate 17/10, 2015 at 10:22

El Cap is 15B42 for the latest non-beta. – Bookstall 14/11, 2015 at 14:8

New apps and app updates submitted to the App Store must be built with public (GM) versions of Xcode 6 or higher and iOS 8 SDK. Do not submit apps built with beta software for store review.

This problem comes when you submit App with Xcode 7 (i.e Beta Version).. Clean your build, increment build number and archive again and submit your app with Xcode 6.4, and this error will go away. Then submit the latest version of the build

Pontifical answered 24/8, 2015 at 10:50 Comment(6)

I am submitting my app with Xcode 6.4. As I said above, I unistalled Xcode 7 Beta. I am cleaning and building in Xcode 6.4, submitting my archive through Xcode 6.4. I even went into my archive folder to manually delete all of Xcode 7 built archives. I am still getting the same error message. – Expedite 24/8, 2015 at 15:8

Did you delete the build on iTunes too? – Pontifical 24/8, 2015 at 15:10

I have not. How can I do that? – Expedite 24/8, 2015 at 15:11

Sorry, you can delete the build manually on itunes but you can submit new build. Change the build number (ie increment) it and upload new build then – Pontifical 24/8, 2015 at 15:14

That also does not work. I have submitted about 3 builds using Xcode 6.4 doing different things and nothing has worked. – Expedite 24/8, 2015 at 15:36

@AndrewAnthonyGerst not when building on an El Capitan Beta. For my case, the answer marked as the correct answer, is the correct answer. – Expedite 30/9, 2015 at 11:58

I couldn't upload my binary even though I was using Xcode 8.3 public version.

Finally I found the issue , I have mistakenly selected Xcode 3.2-compatible in project format under project document. I changed it to Xcode 8.0-compatible and build & archived it. I could upload it without any errors. Check the screen shot attached ..

Hope this will help some one.

Jerrybuilt answered 18/7, 2017 at 17:27 Comment(1)

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