Instruments in Xcode 15.3 not showing symbols

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cameron2000 OP

Created Mar ’24

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When using Instruments in Xcode 15.3 on macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 symbols from system frameworks are not displaying. I've tried creating a template "App" project and running it on the iOS 17.4 simulator without any code changes and still am not seeing symbols so I can be sure it's not unique to my real-world project build settings.

If I install Xcode 15.0 and run the same build in the same 17.4 simulator using Instruments 15.0 it shows thread names and symbols for UIKit and other frameworks but is still missing SwiftUI symbols.

Instruments 15.3

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Instruments 15.0

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I've spent 2 days trying to narrow down why I couldn't debug my app and even deleted all my partitions and reinstalled macOS which didn't fix the issue.

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Answer 1

cpvbruno OP

Mar ’24

Did you find a workaround for this?

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Answer 2

cameron2000 OP

Mar ’24

No unfortunately not, I think it's an issue of the Simulators which are where the frameworks are located missing the symbols or Instruments not indexing them. When debugging on device it's fine, though I still don't see SwiftUI symbols.

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Answer 3

vanvoorden OP

Mar ’24

I able to see macOS symbols from Instruments 15.3 but my symbols from iPhone sim are gone.

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Answer 4

garrett OP

Apr ’24

I am also missing many (not all) symbols using the Simulator (Xcode 15.3, iPadOS 17.4 simulator, MacOS 14.4.1). But when I use a physical iPad, I have all symbols.

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Answer 5

tocab OP

Apr ’24

I also got missing symbols in the Windowed (Last 5 seconds) recording mode in Xcode 15.3 with an iPhone 14 pro (iOS 16.7.2).

Everything works fine with the Deferred recording mode (File > Recording Options... > Recording Mode, in Global Options at the bottom).

The same project works fine with both recording modes in Xcode 14.

Also confirmed this behaviour with a project created from the unmodified "Game" Xcode template.

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Answer 6

trimtab OP

Sep ’24

When you go to Product > Show Build Folder in Finder, and then Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/, is there a file in that folder named {YourApp}.app.dSYM?

If not, go to Build Settings and search "Debug Information Format" and set this to "DWARF with dSYM File" for your Debug builds. (It's probably already set to this for your Release builds.)

I hope this helps you.

If anyone else can help further, I'm still facing the same issue: I've changed this build setting, and have the .dSYM in my Product subfolder, and I've added that folder to the Search paths for dSYMS under Instruments > Settings > Symbols, but I still don't see the symbols in my traces.

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