Dealloc not being called on ARC app

Question

I have a UIViewController that is pushed onto a container controller and then popped off, and using the allocations instrument, I can see that the view controller is destroy

Answer 1

Even with ARC you can inspect the reference count manually:

CFIndex rc = CFGetRetainCount((__bridge CFTypeRef)myObj);

You can know for sure if your code is hung in a memory cycle.