Singleton in iOS Objective C doesn't prevent more than one instance

Question

I know there are several threads on this, but none answer my questions.

I\'ve implemented my singleton class like this (being aware of the controversy about singleto

Answer 1

@VeryPoliteNerd just mark the init and new methods as unavailable on the .h:

- (instancetype)init __attribute__((unavailable("Use +[MyClass sharedInstance] instead")));

+ (instancetype)new __attribute__((unavailable("Use +[MyClass sharedInstance] instead")));

This will cause the compiler to complain if a caller tries to manually instantiate this objects