Xcode "There is not enough disk space available to install the product." with plenty of space.

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Created Dec ’15

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at 4.4 ish GB, my late 2013 MB Pro's internel SSD with 7.9 GB available ought to be able to handle size requirements for this update, I would think. Or, would have thought. Still, it said no, so I freed up a bit more space. Xcode still responds with "There is not enough disk space available to install the product."
Why is that?

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vagif OP

Sep ’20

as a workaround, download xcode 12.0.1 xip file directly from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ to an external drive and install from there. that will save you 11.21gb on your internal drive

Tomlinson OP

Oct ’20

PSA - I deleted most of ~/Library/Developer/iOS DeviceSupport/ to get up to 65gb free, so now the XCode 12.0.1 11gb patch/upgrade is finally installing…

MoneyMo OP

Oct ’20

I'm having the same issue everyone else is having. Are they working on a solution?

potatobillie OP

Oct ’20

You need to have at least 40GB with Catalina to download XCode although the app itself only takes up to 12GB. Even 39GB free space won't work, it has to be above 40GB.

Tawaabb OP

Oct ’20

you need at least 40GB of space to download XCode on your macbook

connorhawke OP

Oct ’20

If you already have Xcode installed and it's taking up a lot of space, removing it first may help bring the available space over the threshold.

connorhawke OP

Oct ’20

That being said, this time it kept freezing when attempting to download/install 12.1 via the App Store, although there was enough space. However, downloading/installing via https://developer.apple.com/download/more/, as previously linked, worked. It doesn't need to be to/from an external drive if there is enough space.

SerhiiS-iOSDev OP

Dec ’20

Same issue for me Xcode 12.2.
Cleaning up storage to 40+ GB free space helped.

You must display this info on AppStore page.

ArthurStuart OP

Jan ’21

I had the same issue as well. I freed up close to 41G to get mine to work as well.

leonard_dlima OP

Jan ’21

I had the same problem using MacBook Air 2017. For me it worked after clearing about approximately 41.2 GB of space.

Lucas Luu OP

Feb ’21

Clean all XCode caches by this app.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devcleaner-for-xcode/id1388020431?mt=12

And it work.
Thank for Konrad Kolakowski

andrewharland OP

Mar ’21

There's something not quite right with all of this and it should be looked into. In order for me to update to Xcode 12.4 I had to clear 45GB of space. Yes... 45GB! I ended up deleting stuff I needed just to work around this.

A large chunk of my disk space is already filled with Xcode and simulator related files. It would be nice if Apple could add in some features to clean this up once in a while, rather than having to rely on 3rd party disk sweepers to identify the issues.

shanmukhdontu8 OP

Jun ’21

Clear space up to 40 GB for XCode 13 (min 40 GB required). The issue will be resolved

juan.moya OP

Oct ’21

Same issue here, started on 8Gb free space and the did a big clean up of files until I had 40Gb of free space and it was still displaying pop-up. Then I restarted the mac and it was fine.

BonusTree OP

Jan ’22

46GB for a 13.2.1!