How to enable/disable ARC in an xcode project?

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hollow7 picture hollow7 · Jan 26, 2012 · Viewed 89.5k times · Source

If a project has already been created with ARC disabled, how do I enable it and vice versa?

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Morothar picture Morothar · Jan 26, 2012

Open your project and select Edit -> Refactor -> Convert to Objective-C ARC. This will start checking your code if it is ready for the conversion.

Good link to read: Everything you need to know about automatic reference counting (ARC)

How to disable ARC has been answered here

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