With Xcode 7 having come out recently, Apple has once again changed things in their CLI. After far longer than it should take, I believe I have finally stumbled upon the “proper” way to turn an xcarchive into an ipa. The best thing you can do with this is have your CI server do the archive, and then turn the archive into the ipa, and upload to wherever. xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath <path