How to Correctly handle Weak Self in Swift Blocks with Arguments

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If self could be nil in the closure use [weak self].

If self will never be nil in the closure use [unowned self].

If it’s crashing when you use [unowned self] I would guess that self is nil at some point in that closure, which is why you had to go with [weak self] instead.

I really liked the whole section from the manual on using strong, weak, and unowned in closures:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html

Note: I used the term closure instead of block which is the newer Swift term:

Difference between block (Objective C) and closure (Swift) in ios

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