Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

I'm running Xcode 4.3.1 iOS-Simulator which originally only supports iOS 5.1.

I need to test my code with iOS 4.3, so I used Xcode's "Install" feature to install it as described in "Installing Xcode with iOS 4.3 device simulator?"

Now I'm finished with testing but cannot find a way to uninstall the 4.3 portions ("iPhone 4.3 Simulator" and "iPad 4.3 Simulator"). I want to reduce the clutter in the Scheme menu.

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Answer by childno.de for Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

Did you tried to just delete the 4.3 SDK from within the XCode Package?

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs

please also delete the corresponding .dmg file in

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads

to prevent Xcode from re-installing the same package again.

Answer by Dan Reese for Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

Xcode 4.6 will prompt you to reinstall any older versions of the iOS Simulator if you just delete the SDK. To avoid that, you must also delete the Xcode cache. Then you won't be forced to reinstall the older SDK on launch.

To remove the iOS 5.0 simulator, delete these and then restart Xcode:

1. /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/PhoneSimulator5.0.sdk
2. ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode

For example, after doing a clean install of Xcode, I installed the iOS 5.0 simulator from Xcode preferences. Later, I decided that 5.1 was enough but couldn't remove the 5.0 version. Xcode kept forcing me to reinstall it on launch. After removing both the cache file and the SDK, it no longer asked.

Answer by werdsackjon for Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

Another thing you can do is to change the Deployment target to the highest value. This will prevent the Scheme Menu from displaying older versions.

To do this go to: Target->Summary then change the Deployment Target.

Answer by tomi44g for Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

In Xcode 6 you can simply go to Menu > Window > Devices > Simulators and delete a simulator you don't need.

Answer by Praveen Matanam for Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

In Xcode 6, you can find and delete the simulators from the path /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes. Restart Xcode in order to take effect.

Answer by justin_beaver for Xcode Simulator: how to remove older unneeded devices?

In addition to @childno.de answer, your Mac directory

/private/var/db/receipts/

may still contains obsolete iPhoneSimulatorSDK .bom and .plist files like this:

/private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.iPhoneSimulatorSDK8_4.bom /private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.iPhoneSimulatorSDK8_4.plist

These could make your Downloads tab of Xcode's preferences show a tick (?) for that obsolete simulator version.

To purge the unwanted simulators, you can do a search using this bash command from your Mac terminal:

sudo find / -name "*PhoneSimulator*"

Then go to corresponding directories to manually delete unwanted SimulatorSDKs

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