Just checked new Xcode 26.2 with iOS 26.2 and the debug builds startup time indeed improved significantly. We still have ~7 seconds of initial sluggishness (difference between debug executable on/off), but it's way better than it was before! 👍 That’s not an improvement, that's a partial rollback of a huge regression. On Xcode 16 it was ~1s. That was the baseline. Seven seconds of launch + long initial sluggishness in debug is still absurd. Stop celebrating “less bad.” This shouldn’t be acceptable and Xcode 26 is still unusable for any serious work.
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