One thing you could do is use an analytics provider that offers an analytics data ingestion API via REST. This way you could make a simple network call using URLSession to track basic events, rather than using the entire mobile SDK/library. An example that I'm familiar with is Mixpanel

@perfectionaq's answer worked, but is not desirable for obvious reasons. I tried explicitly setting the baslineOffset - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsattributedstring/key/1526427-baselineoffset to 0 and that worked perfectly without any side effects.