What does @synchronized() do as a singleton method in objective C?

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It declares a critical section around the code block. In multithreaded code, @synchronized guarantees that only one thread can be executing that code in the block at any given time.

If you aren’t aware of what it does, then your application probably isn’t multithreaded, and you probably don’t need to use it (especially if the singleton itself isn’t thread-safe).

Edit: Adding some more information that wasn’t in the original answer from 2011.

The @synchronized directive prevents multiple threads from entering any region of code that is protected by a @synchronized directive referring to the same object. The object passed to the @synchronized directive is the object that is used as the “lock.” Two threads can be in the same protected region of code if a different object is used as the lock, and you can also guard two completely different regions of code using the same object as the lock.

Also, if you happen to pass nil as the lock object, no lock will be taken at all.

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