I've also created this new post about the issue: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/771281

I've submitted feedback with a sample app with repro steps: FB16144085

Thanks. I do realize I can name the files whatever I want, and I agree it's good to having a consistent naming convention. I'm curious why Apple seems to have two naming conventions for xcassets files, and what the history is behind that design decision.

Thank you for the response! I will investigate the zombies issue, and submit a bug report if I am able to create a reproducible test case.

Thank you for this excellent explanation.

@DTS Engineer Hi Greg, any updates? I appreciate any help you can provide.

@DTS Engineer Hi, were you able to access the crash logs I posted above?

@DTS Engineer Also, I don't know if this is related, but in Xcode 16.1 beta, in the iOS 16 simulator, ARView(frame:cameraMode:automaticallyConfigureSession:) always crashes, and logs the error RealityKit/ARView+AR.swift:71: Fatal error. It no longer appears possible to use the iOS 16 simulator to test an app that uses ARView.

@real_pygod A possible workaround is to use the iOS 17 simulator, which does not appear to be affected by this issue. If testing on iOS 18 is a requirement, you can use an iPhone instead of the simulator.

@DTS Engineer I've also posted three other replies to my original post, describing other simulator-only iOS 18 RealityKit failures I noticed while acquiring the crash logs I posted above. For these failure, no crash log could be acquired.

@DTS Engineer Thanks, Greg. I would appreciate any assistance you can provide. I've posted four fully symbolicated crash logs for the iOS 18 simulator RealityKit crashes at https://github.com/drewolbrich/realitykit-ios-18-simulator-crash-logs I would have included them here, but Developer Forums doesn't appear to allow IPS file attachments. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.

Thank you. It's helpful to know I'm not doing anything wrong.

@cat_face11 Please mark this Apple engineer's reply as the accepted answer so it shows up at the top for other developers who find this page.

The sudo installer fix worked for me. Thank you for the detailed explanation.

See also https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/696035?answerId=697768022#697768022 from 2021.