How To Remove Old Simulators From Xcode?

Save some space by deleting old simulators

As responsible iOS developers, we often need to test the apps on at least the previous one iOS. And for that, we goto Preferences ➡ Components and download the iOS Simulator. Great, we have installed it now.

Delete 🗑

How do you remove these if needed? They occupy a lot of space. As it turns out, Xcode doesn’t provide a straightforward user-friendly way to do just this. But, we can find where it’s located on the disk and just delete that, and Xcode would detect the absence of the simulator on the disk.

It’s very simple. Open this folder in Finder, either by pressing CMD+SHIFT+G and copy-pasting this path /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/ or manually navigating to the above path. Once opened, you will see all the runtimes downloaded. Just delete them and we are good to go.