If you distribute release builds… it’s possible your application will crash, and generate a not particularly useful bunch of addresses for a variety of threads. Luckily there’s a solution, if you get the .app and the .app.dSYM in an easily findable place (like say… the same place as your .crash file!) XCode will do all the lookups for you! Easy peasy!

However release builds should generally be as small as you can make them, how do we overcome this? The following combination of options gets you a nice small stripped .app size while still being able to get symbols:

Debug Information Format: DWARF with dSYM File
Deployment Postprocessing: Yes
Strip Linked Product: Yes
Use Separate Strip: Yes
Generate Debug Symbols: Yes

If you’re using Unity be sure to disable the -Wl,S,x flags in the additional linker options, they basically do the stripping before the dSYM gets generated, which is not what you want! A side note that the .app which comes from a signed .ipa doesn’t seem to match up with the one it was generated from (which… makes sense), so you’ll want to keep your .app around like XCode does when you use Archive.