How to get a .crash file from an iPhone without using XCode?

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Piepants OP

Created Oct ’23

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In this Apple documentation https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/acquiring-crash-reports-and-diagnostic-logs

it says "If a customer reports a crash, they can transfer the crash report to either a Mac or Windows computer. See Find device crash and energy logs on a Mac or Windows computer."

In the page that links to (https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev0f3181c2c) it says "When an app crashes or uses excessive CPU on a device, the operating system creates a log of that event. The next time you connect the device to your Mac, the system downloads those records (known as crash or energy logs) to your Mac. "

But where on your Mac, it doesn't say where. Where does it the Mac download the crash reports to?

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Piepants OP

Oct ’23

How stupid of me, it says it below, you just need to click on an arrow to expand it thats all

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Answer 2

Piepants OP

Oct ’23

Oh, but I take that back, and consequently recasting my question. So I have an iPhone which has crashed lots of times, its been connected to my Mac for hours, but after going to ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice there is nothing there, the MobileDevice folder is totally empty. Yet I know for a fact there are crash reports on that iPhone because I can see them in XCodes Organizer (the reason I am asking this question is for getting reports without using XCode)

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