--- title: Catching Apple Update Breakage Before Users Do | daily.dev description: The indie team behind Usage, a system activity monitor with 1.6 million downloads, shares how they use Sentry to maintain app quality across iPhone, iPad, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/catching-apple-update-breakage-before-users-do-ukeseh590 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Catching Apple Update Breakage Before Users Do | daily.dev og:description: The indie team behind Usage, a system activity monitor with 1.6 million downloads, shares how they use Sentry to maintain app quality across iPhone, iPad, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/catching-apple-update-breakage-before-users-do-ukeseh590 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uKesEH590.png og:image:alt: Catching Apple Update Breakage Before Users Do og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Catching Apple Update Breakage Before Users Do **[Sentry Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/sentry)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The indie team behind Usage, a system activity monitor with 1.6 million downloads, shares how they use Sentry to maintain app quality across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They cover crash monitoring with early SDK initialization, error monitoring for silent failures caused by undocumented Apple APIs changing between OS versions, a custom Swift error wrapper that attaches raw data payloads to Sentry events for easier debugging, Size Analysis as a regression gate to catch missing localizations or unexpected build bloat, custom Metrics for tracking performance improvements, and in-app User Feedback. A real-world example shows how GPU data structure changes between macOS versions are caught the same day via non-fatal Sentry events, allowing fixes to ship before most users encounter the new hardware. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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