MacOS Xcode CoreSimulator folder very big. Is it ok to delete content?

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Franck picture Franck · Oct 29, 2015 · Viewed 106.7k times · Source

My ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices folder is 26 Gb in size.

Is it safe to just delete all the content? Will those files be automatically regenerated?

Answer

Petr Syrov picture Petr Syrov · Mar 30, 2016

Try to run xcrun simctl delete unavailable in your terminal.

Original answer: Xcode - free to clear devices folder?

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