If you’re stuck in that situation, hopefully this will help!

I’d definitely recommend all new developers start with a minimum of 500GB for disk space on new workstations or MacBooks but that’s not always possible for budgetary or other reasons. I’m glad Apple is providing the tools to finally start managing some of the temporary Xcode files to make similar tasks simpler. It took some juggling on my 250GB SSD to make that work. The macOS Big Sur betas required a whopping 50GB free before installing, for example. It can sometimes be a true horror story trying to free enough disk space to do something basic like updating the operating system or installing multiple versions of Xcode. macOS Big Sur Deleting Xcode Cache Enjoy the Free Disk Space! In the view below, you can see the Delete menu for Xcode Caches being used. In the view above, some old device support versions from Xcode 11 are available to be safely deleted (assuming I don’t still want to target iOS 13 for example) since I’ve moved on to Xcode 12. macOS Big Sur Storage Dialogįreeing up disk space by deleting any of the above items is as simple as right-click and selecting Delete. button, you’ll see that new Developer section reflected as available to manage, with sections for caches/archives as well as iOS and watchOS device support. macOS Big Sur Storage MapĪdditionally, if you now use the Manage. Once you go to the Apple menu then About This Mac and then Storage, you’ll see the colored storage map has a new section called Developer. With macOS 11 Big Sur, Xcode developers everywhere should be ecstatic about the new Developer section on the storage management view above. macOS Catalina Storage Management Enter Big Sur and the Developer Storage Section Going through the Apple menu and About This Mac then Storage and even Manage. Trying to find development-related system files in macOS prior to Big Sur was likewise not simple in the UI. ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/watchOS DeviceSupport ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport

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