Automatic Reference Counting is not Garbage Collection, but it's a start, and can weakly be used as a sort of garbage collection. It is up on iOS5's site page,

Automatic Reference Counting is not Garbage Collection, but it's a start, and can weakly be used as a sort of garbage collection. It is up on iOS5's site page, however, so that part is confirmed for now. http://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios5/ http://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios5/