How to stop symbolicate adding “” pieces to iOS Crash Log

Question

I have crash logs from an iPhone Application in the App Store (retrieved via iTunes Connect) that after symbolicating have a bunch of \"\" method names from

Answer 1

As far as I understand you: The 1st report is downloaded from iTunes Connect, the second one is after you processed it on your Mac.

<redacted> is being used by iOS when resolving some system symbols for some parts of some system libraries when writing the crash report on the device. There is nothing you can do to make this not happen other than symbolicating it again on your Mac.

Update: The symbolication script reprocesses all lines and since one of the iOS 6 beta releases Apple started to report these <redacted> symbols. Which also means older versions of atos will return <redacted> instead of the proper symbol.

Please check if Xcode 4.5 is installed with the iOS 6 symbols present and also that Xcode 4.5 is currently selected. You need to make sure that your system uses the latest version of atos.

The symbolication script is using xcrun to find the atos binary, so you can check if it finds the correct one with the following command:

xcrun -find -sdk iphoneos atos

This should point to the Xcode 4.5 app package.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and got rid of messages by deleting all iOS 6.0 (including beta) data from ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport.

Now, symbolicate uses the symbol data stored at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/6.0 (10A403)/
instead of the stored symbol data in user library.