You can turn on Zombies to catch uses of objects after they have been released. Here's an easy way to do it in the gdb console:% gdb build/Debug/Snorkfizzle.app/Contents/MacOS/Snorkfizzle (gdb) set env NSZombieEnabled=YES (gdb) fb -[_NSZombie methodSignatureForSelector:] (gdb) runThen exercise your app and trip the error.