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I have installed the iOS documentation in XCode 4, but I don't want the OSX documentation. Is it possible to remove it or choose not to install it?
On machine I keep hitting cancel to the install dialog that pops up randomly for the OSX docs but this is annoying. On my other machine I did install the OSX documentation but I really want to uninstall it as it just clogs up the documentation browser with mostly duplicated information.
Thanks
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The first step to uninstalling Xcode from your Mac (and deleting its residual files) is to move the app itself to the macOS Bin. Launch Finder and click Applications on the right sidebar. Right-click on the Xcode icon and select Move to Bin on the context menu. That will immediately uninstall Xcode from your Mac.
Here are the steps that you need to take to uninstall Xcode on Mac: Go to your Applications folder. Drag the Xcode icon to your trash. Clean up your Trash bin.
Xcode is itself a large, complex app; it contains many other large, complex apps like Instruments and iOS Simulator; it includes many large, complex tools like the compilers; it packages up SDKs with tons of detailed data about every declaration in every supported Apple OS; and it includes several simulator runtimes, ...
You can easily hide the OS X doc sets from the documentation browser without uninstalling them. In the Xcode 4 documentation browser, click the little arrow next to the magnifying glass in the search box and select Show Find Options. Then deselect from the Doc Sets popup all the items you are not interested in (namely, Mac OS X 10.6 Core Library).
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You can uninstall documentation by simply dragging it to the trash in the Finder. It's located in this folder:
iPhone: /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Documentation/DocSets
Mac OS: /Developer/Documentation/DocSets
I wanted to do this to free up disk space on a small laptop HD.
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