Crashes in production: dSYMs and symbolication
Essence
A Release binary has no function names or line numbers — a crash report contains only addresses. Symbolication turns the addresses back into ProfileViewModel.load() + 120 (ProfileViewModel.swift:48). That requires a dSYM — a file with debug information (DWARF) produced at build time next to the binary.
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