Expose a private Objective-C method or property to subclasses

Question

According to some official talk, a class in Objective-C should only expose public methods and properties in its header:

@interface MyClass : NSObject

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Answer 1

While the other answers are correct, I'd like to add...

Private, protected and public are available for instance variables as such:

@interface MyClass : NSObject {
@private
  int varA;

@protected
  int varB;

@public
  int varC;
}

@end