i can't update Xcode - xcode

I have a macbook air and I went to the store to install Xcode 7.3 and hit the update App button, and a loading icon appeared but after waiting 30 min time nothing happened. I successfully installed simple recorder from the store but I can't install Xcode.
What can i do?
What are the options to download it?

Try restarting your computer to see if Xcode has installed. This will also refresh the app store, so try downloading it again.
If all else fails:
You should uninstall all current versions of Xcode on your Mac. Do this by dragging each application to the Trash can. Delete your trash.
After, try downloading Xcode again and everything should go through.
You aren't aloud to download old versions of Xcode from the App Store.

I suggest you to download the new XCode 8. It works just fine, even if your update button doesn't seem to work. Need to use the App Store. Also, if you happen to be a React Native developer, you may want to follow this article just after having installed this new XCode version.

If you simply cannot install the latest version, I suggest going to www.developer.apple.com and click the Develop Tab, Xcode, Download, sign in with your apple id, and get an Xcode beta version.

www.developer.apple.com -> Login -> Account -> Downloads

If only spinner is showing, without progress. Open Activity monitor and check if installd is running and using a lot of memory. Try killing that process and update again.

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Flutter: XCode error "Unable to boot the Simulator"

Iam running the latest OSX/Flutter/XCode Versions using flutter, android studio and firebase and 1 hour ago everthing works perfectly.
Then i rebooted my macbook and when i try to launch an ios simulator i get this error "Unable to boot the simulator".
The following steps shows no solution:
Reinstall the ios simulator
Flutter clean and pub get
Updating comand line tools 13.3.1 (13E500a)
Run invalid cache of android studio
I found the problem also on stackoverflow but all sugestions does not working.
Any ideas?
Let me know if you need more information!
Thank you
NO NEED TO UNINSTALL XCODE! Though I know the contributor already has solved the issue, I'm happy if this answer will help someone else.
Go to [About this Mac > Storage > Manage > Developer]
Delete all the content (no worries!)
You can delete xcode cache and it will work,
by going to
About this Mac > Storage > Manage > Developer or any folder you choosed for development when installing xcode and flutter then Delete XCode Cache.
Step 1:
Go to About this Mac
Step 2:
Go to Storage
Step 3:
Delete all the content Or Delete XCode Cache
You can just clean your Xcode Caches, and that will do the trick,
About this Mac
Storage
Developer
XCode Caches
For me it was not necessary to delete XCode. I could solve it with this:
1: Click on "About this Mac" in the top left corner
2: Click on "Storage"-Tab
3: Click on "Manage"-Button
4: Click on "Developer"-Tab
5: Right click on all the data and "Delete"
For Mac Ventura 13.0 OS and higher -> Click apple logo on top left of your Mac
System Settings > search Storage > Developer
Then delete Xcode Caches
Product-> Clean Build Folder works for me!
After checking some other comments, it seems uninstalling XCode is not necessary.
The issue is not directly related to Flutter but it is related to the XCode 13.3.1 with the Simulator, specially for iPhone and iPad (tvOS and watchOS should have no issue so far).
Somehow the existing files during the security update causes the simulator to get corrupted.
As temporary workaround, you can try the following steps:
Uninstall XCode by moving from Applications folder to the Trash
Empty the Trash
Open the Mac Storage Management and go to the Developer in the sidebar
Delete everything from the Developer Section
Download Xcode 13.1 from Apple Developers and not the stable release from App Store
Extract the downloaded Xcode_13.1.xip file, i actually recommend via terminal by using xip -x Xcode_13.3.1.xip, and take in mind the extraction uses 100GB and it takes up to 2 hours to complete. You are going to have this message at the beggining xip: signing certificate was "Software Update" (validation not attempted), but you can ignore since this is expected.
Finally, move the extracted XCode file to the Applications folder
Run sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
Run sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch

Xcode tries to update itself again and again

I have a desktop Mac computer and I want to update my Xcode version:
So after click update button the system start to download the update (6GB) and when its finish i see the same window again instead of start the upgrade.
I try to restart the system, download the update again and this button is still show that i need to download the update.
Why my update did not start ?
Maybe the update file is still on my system and i can start the update manually ?
I had this problem with Xcode 10.2. This happens because the update wasn't successfully downloaded and you still have Xcode traces on your disk. I solved this by removing these files:
/Applications/Xcode.app
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode
~/Library/Developer
~/Library/MobileDevice
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeExtensionSupport.bom
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeExtensionSupport.plist
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeSystemResources.bom
/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.XcodeSystemResources.plist
If you can't update Xcode from the Appstore app, then you should consider downloading the latest Xcode xip file from Apple's developer program site

Xcode update stuck after updating macOS

After updating macOS,
I cannot update XCode anymore:
I have been waiting for 2 hours but AppStore does not update.
How do I restart the Xcode update process from the beginning?
Regards
It updated successfully, after around 5 hours. I just did nothing, just left it there.
It is painfully slow when it comes to the 'Installing' stage.
Based on the log from console, it does not look like it is spinning empty.
For example, progress from 94.67% to ...
... 94.83% took almost 20 sec
A lot of the pain of updating XCode from the App Store can be avoided by downloading the latest version from the Apple Developer website directly (including beta versions if you are into them). Use this Apple Developer link.
For more information see this Ask Different answer.
I also had problems with updating Xcode even after deleting it and trying to install it again via the App Store. For me it helped to switch to the Purchased tab in the App Store and cancelling all the other downloads (by pressing Alt / Option and then clicking Cancel). Then the download of Xcode started, hope this helps!
I think there's a download running in background which would explain this waiting time.
I restarted a few times my Macbook pro, and ended up waiting until it ran the update successfuly.
When you make an XCode update, you have to do it when you have free time ahead, not during rushes, you never know how much time it can take
Currently Xcode update from developer tools does not work. Also Xcode 9.3 after download the install gets blocked because the file is corrupted. Additional Tool for Xcode 9.3 downloads and install but then does not work either. App Store downloads Xcode and restart but then it is not functional
Attempts:
https://developer.apple.com/download/more/
App Store
mac iOS developer tools
I had problem opening .xcworkspace. force quit application window showing it's not responding on macos mojave.
executed below commands after that it started working.
/* remove saved app states for chosen applications*/
rm -rf ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState/
/* https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/104810/is-it-safe-to-erase-library-developer */
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer
In my case, my ISP has a slow connection when downloading from Apple's server. Try using VPN to get a faster connection.
Installing Xcode from App store was stuck for me as well it kept on showing rotating loader, I have to say their progress bar isn't the best indicator. Before losing hopes its always best to check the progress behind the curtain. You are going to need 'Console' app for this.
Search for 'Console' app from Spotlight Search.
Then go to search bar and type "App Store".
Next you need to click on start.
You will see a lot of activity in app store as it happens. You will see something like "Completed: 980 of 1000"(based on your progress). Monitor that and it will move.
So it's a better indicator rather than sitting and watching app store loading progress.

XCode alert says UPDATING_LOCKED_* on launch

This is on OS X Yosemite. It appears when I try launching Xcode.
There are no updates shown in the App Store and there are no active downloading updates shown, either. Not exactly the pinnacle of Apple's great user experiences.
I hope I don't have to do a clean install…
This happened to me during the installation of iTunes 12.2.1 (1220C173).
I restarted my computer and ended the update, then Xcode opened properly.
Happened to me as well. Restarting the computer fixed it.
Restart fixed mine too - after restarting, it asked me if I wanted to install some required components, and once that was done it worked fine.
Opening Xcode from the App Store fixed this issue for me.
Looking at the screenshot it seems a weird error. I don't think there will be a easy solution for this error. You have to go through the hard way.
Update/Install xcode again. If it didn't then
Update iTunes and launch/download Xcode again. If it didn't then
Update your Mac OS and try the above
P.S: I usually download xcode from here rather than from Appstore( requires Apple ID to login) https://developer.apple.com/downloads/
In my case I attempted to download Xcode 6.4 from the AppStore and got this same message AND the AppStore progress indicator was stuck; I couldn't pause the download because the button was grayed out. I rebooted and restarted the download a few times to no avail. But then I decided to wait and let the thing work itself out, and it did. Aparently there is a bug in the AppStore download for Xcode 6.4 that DOES download it (and it took forever in my slow connection) but does not show a progress bar. When I opened the Activity Monitor's Network tab, there it was!

Updating XCODE using different apple account

I have MAC OS 10.7.3. xcode 4.3.1 installed using different apple id as my macbook pro was used previously by my friend. Now when i try to upgrade Xcode to 4.3.2 it asking credentials for my friends account. Unfortunately App store clearly says you can upgrade an app using the account which was used to install the app.
How can i upgrade Xcode using my credentials?
Thanks in advance.
I am sure you would have solved this by now but just posting the solution here that worked for me..
Open Finder and navigate to Applications,
Ctrl+Click the application and choose "Show Package Contents" (Xcode in this case),
Expand the Contents directory and click the _MASReceipt directory to select it, Type Command+Delete to
delete the directory permanently---you will be prompted for your
credentials since this is a protected file.
Quit and restart
AppStore, then find the application. You can update with your new id now without deleting the old version of the app
Hope this helps someone coz it took me a while to figure out !!
Unfortunately had to answer my own question,
Simple Answer: NO, You cannot update xcode installed from another account.
Solution is to delete the existing installation and re-installing from new account.
To delete the existing installation, you need to delete it from Launch pad. You can do this by locating xcode icon in launch pad, long click on the icon till it starts dancing. Then delete it and wait for a while till the xcode.app is deleted from /Application. If you manually delete xcode.app from /Application, App store will continue to think its installed and will not allow you to reinstall in future.
Above solution is assuming you have installed xcode from the mac app store, usually versions later than 4.2. For earlier versions, just deleting /Application/xcode folder should work.
The solution is found:
I had this bug, it's related to Spotlight. The App Store used Spotlight in some way. My fix was to add the entire HD to the "Privacy" tab in the Spotlight System prefs pane, close the prefs and wait 30 seconds, re-open and remove your HD from the Privacy tab. Spolight begins reindexing. Re-opened the App Store and problem was fixed! Posting this here for others who might search later on. Also filed a bug report with Apple.
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2806858?start=0&tstart=0

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