I managed to solve this issue by getting the 13.2 beta version and attempting to export the archive. Fortunately the crash was fixed but there was an error thrown by the IPA Tool. When looking into the error logs provided I managed to see that it was complaining about finding duplicate symbols. Which helped me to resolve the problems within our project settings. Essentially there were some frameworks being embedded in our dependent modules which should have been using the “Do not embed” option. After that I was able to archive and export the build on Xcode 13.1 again. So it seems that Xcode 13.1 has a bug where potentially any error thrown during the distribution phase will just crash the app.

I am experiencing the exact same issue. Xcode 13.1 is crashing with this error message when attempting to export our iOS app from the archive.