Crashlytics can pick up these strings just fine. I thought they were part of 
the full crash dump. 

> On Jun 24, 2017, at 12:13 AM, David Baraff via swift-users 
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I realize this is slightly centric to iOS, but it irks me that both Apple’s 
> crash report logs and popular platforms like PLCrashReporter can do the hard 
> stuff like give you a stack trace, but are *completely* unable to display the 
> error message from terminating a program via fatalError(), or the error 
> message from, e.g. dying with a bad optional.
> 
> Is there *any* to intercept the error messages that from fatalError() and 
> similar like things in swift (bad optionals, invalid array accesses, 
> assertions)?  I would think that some sort of a “hook” into these standard 
> error routines would be a good thing.
> 
> In my case, if I could simply save that darn error string in a file, i could 
> pick it up when the app next launches and report it along with the rest of 
> the info like the stack/signal, etc.
> 
> I’ve been looking through the code in stdlib/public/runtime/Errors.cpp but 
> haven’t found anything promising that lets me jump in there.  In my code, I’m 
> likely to write things like
>    guard let x = … else {
>        fatalError(“Data type has payload <T> but is hooked to UI control with 
> intrinsic type <U>”)
>    }
> 
> and having that exact string tells me precisely what’s going, far simpler 
> than a stack trace.
> 
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