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How to get an iPhone application crash log?

September 9th, 2009 GTekna Leave a comment Go to comments

In case an application crashes while running, you could grab the crash log and send it to the developer, which will help the developer to improve the overall quality of the application.  Without the crash log, the developer has no way to reproduce the crash on his/her environment.

Whenever you synchronize your iPhone or iPod Touch, all the crash logs are transferred to your computer.

Here are their locations:

  • Mac OS X : ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<DEVICE_NAME>
  • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Apple computer\Logs\CrashReporter/<DEVICE_NAME>
  • Windows Vista: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple computer\Logs\CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<DEVICE_NAME>

The log file names start with the application name having .crash as a file extension.  For example, Morse application’s crash log may look like Morse.crash.  The log files are text files, so you can attach the file to your email or open with any text editor and copy/paste the log to your email editor.

Reference: iPhone Crash Logs

  1. September 12th, 2009 at 15:35 | #1

    Hello,
    Thanks for article. Everytime like to read you.
    GlenStef

  2. September 18th, 2009 at 12:33 | #2

    I have already seen it somethere…
    Have a nice day
    AnnaHopn

  3. GTekna
    September 18th, 2009 at 13:40 | #3

    @AnnaHopn
    Yes, I put the reference link at the end of my article. There are tons of articles talking about the same topic. I just wrote it for my beta testers’ information.

  4. September 24th, 2009 at 09:39 | #4

    Hello,
    gtekna.com to GoogleReader!
    Thank you

  5. SirDarkened
    December 30th, 2009 at 09:05 | #5

    Hey I have vista, but I’m having a hard time finding where this is… can someone help me?

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