New empty iOS app has dozens of memory leaks

Question

Using the Leaks Instruments tool on a new, from-scratch, one-view iOS app reports 23 leaks. This doesn't seem right — am I missing something? Repeated runs yield different leak counts, from 16 to 35. Steps to reproduce follow this screenshot.

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I'm using Xcode 10.2.1 (10E1001); iOS 12.2 (Simulator & device both show leaks, with or without Reveal activated.)

1. Create fresh one-view iOS app.
2. In Scheme > Run/Debug section, enable
   • Memory Management > Malloc Scribble
   • Logging > Malloc Stack (Live Allocations Only)
3. Run Product > Profile (⌘I)
4. First leak check is green; wait for second one.
5. Twenty-three new leaks! (As shown above.)

However, apart from Instruments, Debug Navigator disagrees:

6. Run normal debug session
7. Click "Debug Memory Graph" at top of Debug area.
8. Debug Navigator (below) has no purple exclamation marks (leak alerts).

Answer 1

The release notes for Xcode 10.3 say:

Resolved an issue where running an app in iOS 12.2 or later under the Leaks instrument resulted in random numbers of false-positive leaks for every leak check after the first one in a given run

That sounds exactly like this issue. So it was a bug (a Heisenbug?), and now it’s fixed.