In Objective-c autoReleased Objects are released if no pointer points to them anymore?

Yes. Lifecycle of objects doesn't really depend on which variables point to them (unlike environments with garbage-collection). That's why it's possible to have variable pointing to deallocated object or have memory leaks: objects retained forever with no references to them.

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