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I can imagine that in case of app crashes, having debug symbols makes debugging them much easier. Other than that, there’s unlikely to be a reason.

• dceddia 5y ago
  This is maybe part of it, but having shipped a macOS app that’s stripped of symbols, crashes can still be debugged as long as I’ve got the dSYM file that was made at build time, so I don’t think it’s a super strong argument. Tools like Sentry will catch the crashes and symbolicate them for you, if you’ve provided them with the dSYM. It can be done on the local machine too.
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  • saagarjha 5y ago
    Symbols are good to ship so that your users can see what is going on as well, FWIW. They just shouldn’t be 200 MB…