Apple looks into a novel way to debug devices — Apple World Today

Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,795,750) for “auto bug capture” that involves a “novel architecture for debugging devices. “

This architecture includes numerous devices such as Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches that automatically detect and report bug events to a set of servers that aggregate and process the bug events without user intervention. When a device detects a potential bug event, the device in some embodiments generates a description of the potential bug event, and sends the generated description to the server set through a network. In addition to generating such a description, the device directs one or more of its modules to gather and store a collection of one or more data sets that are relevant to the potential bug event, in case the event has to be further analyzed by the server set. The data is archived, and these data archives can be further analyzed to identify the root causes of the bug events.