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Developers know that building an application from scratch requires a lot of disk space in addition to programming skills.

Working on multiple projects at the same time is also a surefire way to get your Mac’s hard drive space taken up by intermediate build information, debug and release build targets, archive targets, and caches that are no longer useful for improving Xcode performance.

User-friendly interface to help you release Xcode cache files easily

X cleaner is a streamlined macOS utility designed to make it as easy as possible for Xcode users to free up disk space by deleting the contents of several folders that the Apple IDE uses to store build targets and cache files.

When launched, the XCleaner application presents you with a user-friendly interface, allows you to select folders to clean, and configures it to automatically empty the trash of all or any folders you need to clean.

The folders to choose from are DerivedData, iOS DeviceSupport, CoreSimulator, Backup, and Archives, each of which has a different location in Xcode’s project cache and backup process.

Clear Xcode’s DerivedData and iOS DeviceSupport cache folders

More precisely, Xcode stores build information and your build targets in the DerivedData directory, and in the iOS DeviceSupport folder, subfolders containing device identifiers for each iOS release.

Additionally, deleting the contents of the Archives folder removes all deployed versions of the application saved for debugging purposes, while deleting the files in the CoreSimulator directory allows you to delete older versions of the simulator folder that are no longer needed.

As an added bonus, you can also delete com.apple.dt.Xcode from the ~/Library/Caches/ folder to quickly delete and rebuild its cache with the XCleaner application.

For more details on what other files you can delete from your hard drive, you can click the question mark next to each folder or check out the “Xcode Users Can Free Up Space on Mac” blog post, which was used to create the XCleaner application source of inspiration.

An easy-to-use Xcode cache cleaner for developers who need more free space

Needless to say, Xcleaner gives you an easy way to quickly free up tens of gigabytes of disk space by simply emptying your DerivedData and iOS Support folders.

If you also consider that you can also use it to clear Xcode’s cache, deployed versions of your app, and intermediate builds, then it’s clear that using XCleaner to free up disk space is a great idea for any Xcode user running out of space regular.