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How to uninstall downloaded Xcode simulator? [duplicate]

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How do I uninstall Xcode simulator?

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.

How do I completely remove Xcode from my Mac?

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.


You can remove them from /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes (Not ~/Library!):

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NOTE: This will only remove a device configuration from the Xcode devices list. To remove the simulator files from your hard drive see the previous answer.

For Xcode 7 just use Window \ Devices menu in Xcode:

Devices menu

Then select emulator to delete in the list on the left side and right click on it. Here is Delete option: enter image description here

That's all.


Run this command in terminal to remove simulators that can't be accessed from the current version of Xcode in use.

xcrun simctl delete unavailable

Also if you're looking to reclaim simulator related space Michael Tsai found that deleting sim logs saved him 30 GB.

~/Library/Logs/CoreSimulator

Slightly off topic but could be very useful as it could be the basis for other tasks you might want to do with simulators.

I like to keep my simulator list to a minimum, and since there is no multi-select in the "Devices and Simulators" it is a pain to delete them all.

So I boot all the sims that I want to use then, remove all the simulators that I don't have booted.

Delete all the shutdown simulators:

xcrun simctl list | grep -w "Shutdown"  | grep -o "([-A-Z0-9]*)" | sed 's/[\(\)]//g' | xargs -I uuid xcrun simctl delete  uuid

If you need individual simulators back, just add them back to the list in "Devices and Simulators" with the plus button.

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