How to View Your Diagnostics and Usage Data on an iPhone

Last Updated: October 16, 2020

This wikiHow teaches you how to view diagnostic files that contain detailed information about crashes and memory issues on your iPhone.

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It’s an app with a gray cog on one of your home screens. It might be in a folder called “Utilities.”
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It’s in the third section.

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Tap an entry to view diagnostic data.
- Logs for specific apps begin with the app’s name, followed by the date (e.g. “Evernote-2016-12-27”).
- Entries that begin with “JetsamEvent” are created when apps and data have memory (RAM) issues.
- Entries that begin with “Stacks” don’t represent crashes. They just contain information about iOS.

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I do not see diagnostic and usage data, only analytics data. Any ideas?

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Go into your data settings and go down to the bottom, it will all be there.

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These diagnostic files contain highly technical information about hardware and operating system issue, so they may not be helpful to novices.

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You can help Apple improve its services by choosing to automatically send them copies of your diagnostic logs. In the Diagnostics & Usage area of your Privacy settings, select Automatically Send .

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