Does assigning an autorelease object to a retained property increase its retain count?

Turn on zombies and see if it catches the problem (EXC_BAD_ACCESS does not necessarily mean an over-released object, but it might).

Why are you releasing the dict in cellForRowAtIndexPath: . Eventhough you allocate dict, you are assigning another pointer which is an object from filteredData or data. Just remove the data release and while declaring data assign it as nil.

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