Xcode ARC (automatic reference counting), “release is unavailable”

Question

For my first time using Xcode I was following a tutorial online. I did everything as the tutorial showed me, but I am afraid that it\'s too outdated.

The error I enc

Answer 1

You have two options:

1) Turn off ARC for this project. This is done by setting 'Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting' to NO in the 'Build Settings' tab of your target in the project page.

2) Remove all retain release autorelease NSAutoReleasePools and retainCount calls, since ARC makes them for you. With the exception of NSAutoReleasePools They have been replaced by @autorelease{}.

The second option has been automated by apple see this question to use the refactoring tool.