Ios System Logs App

The unified logging system is available in ios 10.

Ios system logs app. Tap analytics improvements. You view log messages using the console app log command line tool or xcode debug console. Click on the up triangle on the bottom of the screen to view device logs.

The most common tool is socat 1 man. Tap the share button at the top right corner and email the crash log to pocket. The answer to the riddle is asl the apple system log facility.

As ios is unix based it comes as no surprise that its syslog can be read using the same tools desktop unix and linux power users use. Choose your device from the devices section on the left side of the screen. This is a low level c api which is present on osx as well as ios and as such it has a man page.

Find the logs on your ios device. You can also access log messages programmatically using the oslog framework. If you don t have it yet run an apt get on the package socat or install the package socket cat via cydia.

And later macos 10 12 and later tvos 10 0 and later and watchos 3 0 and later. Scroll down and select any items that start with pocket and show the date you encountered the crash.