ARC forbids autorelease?

Question

New to ios and trying to return an NSString from an function. As I understand, I need to [NSString... alloc] init] in order to create the string for return. Al

Answer 1

ARC = automatic reference counting = the compiler adds the necessary releases and autorelases based on its analysis of your code. You don't see this of course because it happens behind the scenes. As mentioned by sosbom in his comment, you really should read the applicable documentation on the Apple website.