Viewing the console log in iOS7

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tomblah picture tomblah · Sep 27, 2013 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

Prior to iOS7, if I wanted to view the output log of an app running on an iOS device, I would use one of:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/system-console/id431158981?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/console/id317676250?mt=8

However, since upgrading to iOS7, both of these don't seem to be recording the log output of any app on my phone.

Would this be due to a new setting on my phone? Or has iOS7 changed the way in which logging is handled such that these two apps are now broken?

Answer

lyonanderson picture lyonanderson · Sep 27, 2013

We're the creator of System Console - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/system-console/id431158981?mt=8

It looks like in iOS7 the sandbox now prevents an app from seeing the logs of other apps. In iOS6 apps could no longer see kernel and system log entries. Now in iOS7 you can only see your own logs. For System Console this is obviously a deal breaker.

I don't see any apps store approved ways of getting around it.

It might be that we have to find a backdoor way of accessing the logs and release the source code to System Console with this method. i.e you build it yourself.

Chris

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