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October 16, 2026

Lesson learned: my iPhone debug build wouldn't link, and it wasn't my code.

One lesson, learned the hard way, written down so it only has to happen once.

A copied framework folder was empty. The release build, the one TestFlight makes, linked fine.

When a build breaks, check what it actually linked before blaming the change.

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