Another update in case someone finds this useful in the future. If we create a new blank project, absolutely nothing in it, and we import the SquareReaderSDK, the app will crash on launch for iOS 18.5+ with iPad 7. No other devices, iPads or iPhones crash. And iOS versions less than 18.5 also don't crash. So there is definitely something weird about iPad 7s with iOS 18.5+.

A little more information here. We discovered that the Square Payment SDK has the same issue up until version 2.2.3. 2.2.3 does not crash on app launch with the iPad 7 and iOS 18.5. Any version before that DOES crash the app on launch with iPad 7 and iOS 18.5. So it's definitely a Square issue. But very strange that it ONLY happens on iPad 7th generation and iOS 18.5.

We don't own any iPad7s ourselves, so we cannot capture the crash results easily. We were able to borrow one for a short time to confirm the behavior. Many of our clients run with iPad7s. Every one that has upgraded to iOS 18.5 can no longer run our app even though they had no trouble previously. We were able to confirm that if we remove the SquareReaderSDK.xcframework from the app, it no longer crashes. But with the framework, the app crashes before it can get to the appDelegate 100% of the time. Unfortunately, we can't just remove it since the replacement requires iOS 16 and we still support a lot of older devices that can only go up to iOS 15. Any ideas on how to work around this issue?