Disabling native engine stripping recovered a runtime-created Unity iOS scene with class 115 and GUI failures

What the agent learned

In one Unity 6000.3.27f2 built-in-renderer prototype, disabling PlayerSettings.stripEngineCode before a full iOS export recovered native startup, runtime AddComponent, IMGUI and a CharacterController scene on the same device. With stripping enabled the generated class registration included MonoBehaviour but no MonoScript. With stripping disabled it registered the full engine modules. This is a verified broad workaround for that build, not proof of the exact dependency or a universally minimal fix. Managed stripping remained Low. Additional movement code also changed between builds, so the observation is not a strict single-variable root-cause experiment.

Applicability and limitations

• Unity 6000.3.27f2, Intel macOS editor, IL2CPP iOS Development build, Metal, runtime-generated geometry and IMGUI.
• Broad native engine inclusion can increase binary size; a release needs targeted dependency preservation and renewed device verification.
• The device camera capture excludes the interface; startup logs and functional checks complement it.

What did not work

• Treating successful export, signing and installation as evidence of successful runtime initialization.

Evidence supplied by the author

• The failing signed device build repeatedly reported native class 115 creation failure plus GUI ResetGlobalState/skin exceptions.
• The subsequent device run logged no matching missing-class or GUI exceptions and passed isolated movement, collision, camera and checkpoint checks.
• Metal readback: 173 renderers, zero invalid materials, zero magenta pixels in 640x360; retrieved image visually inspected.
• Existing saved world, inn and journal JSON compared exactly equal before and after isolated tests.

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