How to Completely Uninstall Xcode and Clear All Settings

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robestrong picture robestrong · Jun 23, 2015 · Viewed 136.9k times · Source

I have an issue that I can only assume is with Xcode, where my apps take forever to run and crash the phone/restart about 75% of the time. I tried using older versions of the code that I'd saved instead, but they had the same effect, which they didn't use to have about a month ago.

I've looked up every single possible way to solve this issue for the past few weeks have haven't found anything, so I want to completely uninstall Xcode and clear all settings; but I can't find a way to do this. I can uninstall it, but when I reinstall it, it still has all of my old settings and lists of projects etc. How can I completely uninstall it?

Answer

kpod13 picture kpod13 · Nov 19, 2015

For complete removal old Xcode 7 you should remove

  1. /Applications/Xcode.app
  2. /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
  3. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
  4. ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode
  5. ~/Library/Application Support/Xcode
  6. ~/Library/Developer/Xcode
  7. ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator

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