App crashes in review but works well in Simulator or real device.

My app crashed for the second time in review but works well in simulator. It crashes on launch in their case and I can not understand why. Can you please shed some light on this case. Thank you very much! This is there response: We were unable to review your app as it crashed on launch. We have attached detailed crash logs to help troubleshoot this issue. Review device details:

  • Device type: iPad
  • OS version: iOS 15.7

Without you posting a symbolicated crash report it's impossible to determine the issue.

One suggestion with testing though - delete your app from your real test device (or even the simulator) and do a clean build so you are testing a fresh install like the reviewer. It's not uncommon for an app to work in development over time but fail on a fresh install.

Did you tried to install the app from TestFlight ? It may gives different results.

Consider this snippet from your crash report:

Last Exception Backtrace:
0 CoreFoundation    … __exceptionPreprocess + 220 …
1 libobjc.A.dylib   … objc_exception_throw + 60 …
2 Helpapet          …
3 Helpapet          …
4 Helpapet          …
5 libdispatch.dylib … _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32 …

This indicates that your app crashed due to an unhandled language exception. It’s hard to identify the cause because the frame that threw the exception, frame 2, is not symbolicated. I recommend that you try symbolicate your log, uncover the identity of frame 2, and investigate from there.

For help with symbolication, see Adding Identifiable Symbol Names to a Crash Report.

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Second what Ptit-Xav says. If you're installing via running the app in Xcode then (unless you are explicitly changing the scheme setting) you are installing a debug build, which is not the same as a release build, and will often lead to different behaviors.

I too am experiencing this issue, ever since updating to iOS 16 (Xcode 14). Simulator works just fine, AdHoc releases crash immediately upon start up.

I have attached the relevant snippets from the crash log on my iPhone Xs Max.

Please help!

Please post the full crash report, per the advice in Posting a Crash Report.

The thing with crash reports is that the more you learn about them the more things can become relevant. I spend a lot of time looking at crash reports, and so the whole thing is relevant to me (-:

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App crashes in review but works well in Simulator or real device.
 
 
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