Xcode Archiving Mac app in "Other Items" section of Organizer

Under Project setting, setting skip install to YES....then under the target, set skip install to NO fixed it.

One of reason (from many other possible as googled) why archive is added to "Other items" is that Xcode does not know CFBundleVersion/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION. But it is not easy as always in Apple world. Anyway I had CFBundleVersion in Info.plist Xcode did not see/used it. See details below.

After upgrade from Xcode 13.2.x to 13.4.x my app archive started to show in organizer in section "Other items" not in "iOS apps". Also in organizer app has empty version. Build to iPhone was working, build on simulator failed due to error, that I do not have CFBundleVersion in Info.plist - but I had it there. I had fixed number (not variable) and it is root of problem. I had to change static values to variables....

File Info.plist

// OLD incorrect
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>345</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.2.3</string>

// NEW correct
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>$(CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION)</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>$(MARKETING_VERSION)</string>

File project.pbxproj

...
CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION = 345;
MARKETING_VERSION = 1.2.3;
...

And additionally I had to add variables to file project.pbxproj to Release and Debug sections because I did not have it there. So with older Xcode it was working this way and versions was taken from Info.plist. Now it seems that source of true are variables from project.pbxproj but Apple have incorrect error messages because it is fail to say in error that CFBundleVersion is missing in Info.plist when it is there. Finally Xcode automatically deleted CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString from Info.plist.

I have spent many many hours of finding out what is problem. I hate upgrading Xcode - nightmare, many hours always lost.

Today I archived my project and exported it as an app, so I could use it on my machine. Then I set the appname>build to any Mac so I could upload it to the App Store. It started to archive it as other items. I literally didn't change anything except to build in for Intel and Apple silicon. I have been archiving the app for years with the same project settings - I didn't change anything. I have carefully studied the threads about this and none of the suggestions on these have helped. This sure looks like an XCode bug to me.

I solved the problem. I control-clicked on the archive in the organizer window to show it in the finder. It’s a .xarchive bundle. Control clicking on it shows a pop-up menu with the option to show the package contents. the package contains three things: a dSYMs folder, an Info.plist and a Products folder. The Products folder contains an Applications folder. This folder has a copy of the application and an app name.docarchive. Double clicking on the .docarchive opens the developer documentation with my application shown in the left side bar and a list of the Swift classes and functions that I implemented in my Objective-C application. So this looks like something that Xcode did when I added swift objects to the app with a bridging header. When there’s a .docarchive in the Application’s folder Xcode thinks it’s an type other.

Setting the target build setting in Document Compiler - Options > Build Documentation During ‘Build’ to no fixes the problem.