Why ARC is not deallocating memory after popViewController

Question

I\'m pushing and popping ViewControllers in UINavigationController.

I\'m tracking the memory consumption of my app. While pushing the new viewController the memory consu

Answer 1

When you dismiss a view controller (or pop it), it will be deallocated if you didn't make any strong pointers to it (that controller is retained by the navigation controller, or the presenting view controller, so you usually don't need to have a pointer to it when you create it and push or present it).

It will be be released if there are no other strong pointers to it