App killed by SIGKILL when changing privacy settings

ios ios6 assetslibrary
qiz picture qiz · Sep 29, 2012 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

My iOS app accesses the user's Photos with ALAssetsLibrary. When I change the privacy settings for the app (Settings → Privacy → Photos), the app gets killed by system (SIGKILL). Is this a bug?

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clauswey picture clauswey · Oct 17, 2012

I think it is a bug or at least poorly documented and unexpected behavior. But it does not crash it is just forced to restart. You will get a SIGKILL message but no Crash log.

If you are a registered apple developer you can check their forums for discussions about this issue

I don't know of any way how to prevent this behavior but feel free to file a bug report with apple. It is rumored they use bug duplicates as a way of measuring the bug severity. Maybe you can store your app state in order to restore it when it restarts.

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