Crash logs generated by iPhone Simulator?

Question

Are there any crash logs generated by iPhone Simulator?

the Simulator crashes a lot but not leaving any traces in Console... the crash log will be useful.

Answer 1

Here’s something that worked for me in a special case... My app was crashing with SIGKILL as it terminated. I would see the exception in main.m for a few seconds, and then the app would finish terminating – thus, no chance to get the back trace.

I did a lot of searching on “where does simulator store its crash logs” and never managed to find an answer. However, the following trick came in quite handy and I was able to grab the crash log on the fly:

Basically, open /Applications/Utilities/CrashReporterPrefs.app and change the setting to “Developer”. This will cause CrashReporter to display a popup with the crash log after your app crashes.

I found this in the “Viewing iOS Simulator Console and Crash Logs” section in this doc from Apple: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/ios_development_workflow/125-Using_iOS_Simulator/ios_simulator_application.html