diff --git a/Resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings b/Resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
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diff --git a/Tools/generate_strings_files.sh b/Tools/generate_strings_files.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+root_directory=$(cd "$(dirname $0)" && pwd)/../
+
+# The 2 only specific cases of the application: since we are length limited for push
+# notifications, the ID is not matching the English translation... so we must keep
+# the translations!
+localizable_en=$root_directory/Resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
+IC_MSG_EN=$(grep IC_MSG $localizable_en | sed -nE 's/"IC_MSG" = "(.*)";/\1/p')
+IM_MSG_EN=$(grep IM_MSG $localizable_en | sed -nE 's/"IM_MSG" = "(.*)";/\1/p')
+rm -f $localizable_en
+find $root_directory/Classes -name '*.m' | xargs genstrings -u -a -o $(dirname $localizable_en)
+iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8 $localizable_en > $localizable_en.tmp
+mv $localizable_en.tmp $localizable_en
+sed -i.bak "s/= \"IC_MSG\";/= \"$IC_MSG_EN\";/" $localizable_en
+sed -i.bak "s/= \"IM_MSG\";/= \"$IM_MSG_EN\";/" $localizable_en
+rm $localizable_en.bak
+
+to_utf8=$(mktemp -t linphone)
+for xibfile in $(find $(find $root_directory/Classes -name Base.lproj) -name '*.xib'); do
+	stringsfile=${xibfile/.xib/.strings}
+
+	ibtool --generate-strings-file $stringsfile $xibfile
+
+    # remove if empty
+    iconv -f utf-16 -t utf-8 $stringsfile > $to_utf8
+    if [ ! -s $to_utf8 ]; then
+    	echo "$(basename $stringsfile) is empty, removing"
+    	rm $stringsfile
+    else
+		echo "$(basename $xibfile)->$(basename $stringsfile)"
+
+		res_name=$(basename $stringsfile | tr -d '_.~-' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+		dir_name=$(echo $(dirname $stringsfile) | sed -E "s|$root_directory/||")
+		# if not registered in transifex config file, register it
+		if ! grep -q $res_name $root_directory/.tx/config; then
+			echo "not found in .tx/config, adding it"
+			echo "
+[linphone-ios.$res_name]
+file_filter = $(echo $dir_name| sed 's/Base.lproj/<lang>.lproj/')/$(basename $stringsfile)
+source_file = $dir_name/$(basename $stringsfile)
+source_lang = en
+" >> $root_directory/.tx/config
+		fi
+    fi
+done
+rm $to_utf8