Why XCode 12.1 download takes so long?

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Created Oct ’20

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Xcode 12.1 it's not available in the Downloads section of Apple Developer, there's only the GM build. Currently, it points out to the App Store link, which for me it's ok.
But when I start to download XCode from the App Store, it starts at full speed for some seconds and then drops to a few byte/s. Pausing and restarting didn't help, and I'm stuck on a 2-days download by now. Every other app from the store downloads well.

Please, fix the download stream from the App Store, give me an hint on how to speed up the download time, or give us a xip to download from the Developer site.

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Liberty 456 OP

Oct ’20

Every time I download from apple servers it takes forever. Xcode literally always takes me hours to download and install. It's never a joy, especially this time when Xcode 12.1 isn't running very well. It's slowing down my computer, crashing Spotlight, and not starting up my app properly. It ran like a dream prior to updating.

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Claude31 OP

Oct ’20

To avoid Appstore slowness, I download from here. Much faster (about 1 h 30 though, because it's so large)

https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

I checked Xcode 12.1 is available there.

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InstantInteractive OP

Oct ’20

It took a week to convince Apple Developer Support to add the missing Xcode 12.1 item to the 'More' downloads page. Very frustrating. They kept saying to get it from the Mac App Store. I don't do that myself since, as Claude31 noted above, it's generally faster. Also, I like to have the .xip files around just in case I need to easily go back to a prior version.

For example, I think it was an early 11.x (11.2?) version that caused havoc if your storyboards contained UITextView. So at that time, it was very easy for me to just unzip the old version and copy over.

All throughout the 11.x releases, the download was available in the 'More' section within 24 hours. But with 12.x, I've had to complain twice now. I suggested that they write a unit test that would fail if an Xcode release doesn't show up there.

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