NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey crashes before iOS 5.1
Like many of iOS developers I have encountered the issue with application crashing on system before 5.1 when using NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey . It was well described how to evaluate existence of this key on this thread: Use NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey without crashing on iOS 5.0 One of samvermette's comments says that there is a bug in iOS simulator. Nevertheless I have encountered the same issue with a Release build, even in 2 separate applications. After some investigation I have discovered that application crashed even before main() method beeing called. Which hinted me that this is