# methods/iVars commands are no longer accessible

**URL:** <https://forums.kodeco.com/t/methods-ivars-commands-are-no-longer-accessible/96745>\
**Category:** Advanced Apple Debugging\
**Created:** [February 3, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/methods-ivars-commands-are-no-longer-accessible/96745 "2020-02-03T05:56:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![gorloff](https://assets.chunter.kodeco.com/user_avatar/forums.kodeco.com/gorloff/32/102075_2.png) [@gorloff](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/gorloff)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/methods-ivars-commands-are-no-longer-accessible/96745/1 "2020-02-03T05:56:22Z")

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macOS 10.15.2 | Xcode 11.3

The NSObject Private category used to implement these methods seems to no longer be visible.

```
@interface NSObject (Private)
   -(id)_ivarDescription;
   -(id)_shortMethodDescription;
   -(id)_methodDescription;
@end

```

What can we do to return such behaviour again?

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**Author:** ![shogunkaramazov](https://assets.chunter.kodeco.com/user_avatar/forums.kodeco.com/shogunkaramazov/32/108826_2.png) [@shogunkaramazov](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/shogunkaramazov)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/methods-ivars-commands-are-no-longer-accessible/96745/2 "2020-02-03T09:16:34Z")

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@lolgrep Can you please help with this when you get a chance? Thank you - much appreciated! :]

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**Author:** ![lolgrep](https://assets.chunter.kodeco.com/user_avatar/forums.kodeco.com/lolgrep/32/106950_2.png) [@lolgrep](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/lolgrep)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/methods-ivars-commands-are-no-longer-accessible/96745/3 "2020-02-04T02:25:40Z")

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\_.\*Description methods were implemented in the iOS SDK, not Cocoa. If the boom references this in Cocoa then that’s an error.

Would be a great exercise to figure the implementation yourself and see if you can reimplement this yourself as a category

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**Author:** ![system](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.raywenderlich.com/community/forum-assets/noun-game-ghost-878668.png) [@system](https://forums.kodeco.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.kodeco.com/t/methods-ivars-commands-are-no-longer-accessible/96745/4 "2020-07-18T21:56:24Z")

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