Memory management is a core part of building stable iOS applications. Interviewers ask this to assess whether you understand object lifecycles, performance trade-offs, and common causes of leaks or crashes.
Explain how memory is managed in iOS applications. In your answer, address:
The interviewer expects a practical engineering explanation rather than compiler internals. Cover the object ownership model, common pitfalls in UIKit/Swift code, and the tools and coding patterns you would use to keep memory usage under control.