Change IOS Simulator directory.

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Gleber OP

Created Jun ’19

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Hi there,

Xcode takes a lot of free space on my SSD therefore I installed it on my external HDD.

But when I tried to download any of iOS simulators in Xcode preference I noticed that it was still downloaded on my SSD.

Could you please tell how can I change iOS simulator directory? In terminal, anywhere else?

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Ramin1352store OP

Jun ’19

ramin1352store

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Gleber OP

Jun ’19

Ok, thank you)

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Answer 3

Developer Tools Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’19

Actually, with Xcode 11's CoreSimulator, you can now have /Library/Developer present on any attached disk, and we will locate the runtimes within it.

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jhcarrington OP

Jan ’21

@jeremyhu This is just incorrect lol. I have an external hard drive formatted with APFS and I moved my CoreSimulator folder over there into /VolumeName/Library/Developer and cleared my local Caches folder and made sure to kill all simulators. Yet still the simulator cannot load

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LuccasMeller OP

Jul ’22

@jhcarrington, any updates on that? I'm trying to this with my xcode 13, but it failed.

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V1618 OP

Sep ’23

Any updates for now for Xcode 13?)

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trimtab OP

Oct ’24

I have tried both symlink and alias, and I've had no luck with an SSD that links to /Volumes/External/CoreSimulator from /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator

Using a Samsung T7, MacOS Sonoma 14.6, Xcode 16.0

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