Post #975874

2024-08-04 13:33 UTC

iOS developers: there&#39;s one more place to clean up if you&#39;re running Xcode 16: &quot;/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_iOSSimulatorRuntime” Although it&#39;s in /System, it&#39;s actually a separate mount point so it is read/write. You can delete older runtime folders in there that you&#39;re no longer using. This saved ~30GB on my Mac

Replies (9)

@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com 2024-08-04 18:07

@_inside What is this for? ML models and stuff?

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@vnzn@mas.to 2024-08-04 14:08

@_inside Thank you for your tip. Although I used sudo I can’t delete the files, because of missing permissions.

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@siguza@infosec.space 2024-08-04 15:32

@_inside jesus christ. Where does the mount point come from though? Does Xcode literally create a new APFS volume??

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@Arcticulate@toot.community 2024-08-04 15:42

@_inside Two weeks ago, I went into the $HOME folder’s Library/ and deleted old simulator runtimes worth 200 GB (two hundred gigabytes) of data, totalling more than 3,5 million files. Here is one of the Empty Bin dialogs I managed to capture. EDIT: There was more than just runtimes: cache and just leftovers all the way back to Big Sur, as its the M1 Mac Mini. I cleaned up 1/5 of internal storage (1 TB flash).

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@radu@toots.ro 2024-08-04 15:43

@_inside god xcode is so junk

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@hisaac@allamaraine.io 2024-08-04 15:53

@_inside hmm, it seems to be write-only on my machine. I’m unable to modify or delete the directory nor its contents.

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@high_lander@mastodon.social 2024-08-04 21:13

@_inside there are similar folders for xrOS, watchOS and other OSes …

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@arquitetomovel@bolha.us 2024-08-07 22:42

@_inside after install it on my Air M1 of 256GB , remained only 25GB of free space. Good tip

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@varyform@mastodon.social 2024-09-07 07:56

@_inside They can be deleted from xCode -> Settings -> Components

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