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It could be a nil problem, however, you provide too little info to know for sure. The reason it works with dispatch_async and doesn't without is not necessarily the thread you're calling the methods from, it could be that, at the time when you call the code, some of your UI objects are nil. When you call dispatch_async you add the job to the queue but since all dispatch queues are first-in, first-out data structures, you actually add the job at the end of the run loop, which potentially gives time for initialisation (wherever that is done)


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