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After noticing a significant decrease in the free space on my MacBook Air (and with only 128GB, every GB counts!) I ran DaisyDisk to find out what was going on and discovered that the ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/6.1/tmp directory had 3GB of junk (ghostlyIcons., gridImages., iconImages.*, iconLabels_gray.*) in it!
By the looks of it 3GB is nothing, that folder can rack 50GB with ease!
I assume I can just delete what ever is in there? Shouldn't it get deleted automatically?
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type: ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator.
To delete individual, available, simulators it's easier to do so through Xcode. Go to Window > Devices and simulators, then select the Simulators tab. You can right-click on any simulator and select 'delete' to get rid of it.
The basic way to open a list of simulators is to use Xcode -> Window -> Devices and Simulators. Here you can create and manage all available simulators. But you cannot run them directly. You need to build your application on the simulator, and then you can run it.
I ended up deleting most of the files in tmp:
FWIW, my simulator is running fine after deleting the files.
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