XCode Developer Cache

In the eternal journey of freeing up more memory, I noticed that the storage management settings on my laptop (MacOS 12) had a new section for “developer cache”.

(not actually my computer)

Not only do I not know what is does, it also was taking up a lotta space!

It turns out all of this “cache” is related to writing code for apple products which is not why I have xcode installed (I just need it for Ruby I think). So deleting the cache is safe to do, but it will keep coming back.

To prevent that from happening, you need to open xcode (which actually made me install something else 😠) and delete all of the simulators.

Menu > Window > Devices > Simulators

then highlight and delete!

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