Is it possible to debug “Terminated due to memory error”?

Question

In a certain (consistent) point when my app is running, I consistently get the xcode error message

Terminated due to memory error.

Answer 1

I had similar issue in Xcode 11.3 wherein camera was getting calling every-time we press on try again button. If these is done multiple times then crash happens.

This was fixed when we disabled Zombie objects. Below are steps:

1. Tap on project name present in top left. This will show list of targets present in project.
2. Tap on Edit scheme

3. Select Run option -> Diagnostics -> Uncheck Zombie Objects.

Now, run your project. It should work fine.

Answer 2

I was getting this error and could not understand what was wrong.

After some searching I found out that i forgot to disable zombies.

To disable do the following:

Answer 3

With Xcode 11 it started my project in Debug mode. I am doing some image recording/editing/returning to the user and that is not something you can use in Debug. Once I turned to Release mode, all went well.

Answer 4

The thing that I noticed is that when I run my app on the device through cable and leave it idle for a long time I will also get that error.

Apple do address this and it just might be that it feels like the app is idle and just kills it.

Answer 5

I got this error because I was adding full size photos to a collectionView cell sized 40x40. Read the 2 comments under the question from @matt. I had to scale down the images before adding them to the cell.

Answer 6

I was faced the same issue.("Terminated due to Memory Error") I had tried the above all answers but nothing work for me. Then i debug my code and found a for loop is running for infinity time with allocating memory to a array with nil value every time.its use 300+MB so it give this error

Thanks.