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

My problem was delegates.

Check your delegates! The delegate property should have weak specified:

weak var delegate: SomeProtocol?

or

@property (weak, nonatomic) id<SomeProtocol> delegate;