XCode 7.1 Slow to Install on MacBook

Apprently it heard me ... it's done installing 2 hours and 10 minutes after the process started.

Is this normal behavior? And install to take this long?

Mine's been stuck at "3 minutes" for a long time now. Not sure what's taking so long...

My MacBook Pro has been stuck at 3 minutes for over an hour. Will it ever finish?

Same issue on my MacBook Pro. The progress status changes from 3 minutes, to 1 minute, back to 3, then 2 and back to 3...

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid-2012)

2.6 GHz i7

16 GB

Yosemite 10.10.5

after 2.5 hours, the install finally finished on its own.

As a precaution, did a command-r reboot and "Repaired Disk" - 3 issues, and "Repaired Permissions" - 4 issues.

Did any of that help you with the install of the XCode app after?

I just installed Photoshop without issues, but that was of course from outside of the App Store, without issues or having it take longer then the age of the universe.

Thank God someone was having this issue with a MacBook Pro, after buying the Macbook and seeing how long it was taking to extract XCode, I was sure that I had made a horrible mistake. Apparently, all is right with the universe 🙂. I can tell you that I installed KOTOR II (Game) in a reasonable ammount of time, from the App Store. It's about 6.8 GB, so about equivalant to XCode in size and it did that within 10 minutes. So I'm going to chalk this upto a quirk in this packaging of the XCode app and nothing to do with the perf of the Macbook its self.

Ermagad. It's taking forever from the app store so I tried to cancel all that, download the stand alone .dmg from developer.apple.com but it took forever too... so I cancelled that now going back to the app store way and will try wait it out.

Seems to be a memory issue on my macbook.

I have 8 GB of RAM, but the install seems to require 13 GB cuz it's using 5 GB of swap space even when everything else is closed.

But even after that was finished it is still stuck at "Installing - 3 minutes" even though nothing seems to be going on.

5 GB swap is a low to average amount used by the OS in normal circumstances.

I'd guess part of the time involved is waiting for the signing servers in the background, which are usually swamped (throttled?) at times like this. We just saw OS X, iTunes, Pages etc., iOS, tvOS and Xcode revision cycles, so...best to be patient.

But yeah, that 8gb ram isn't helping 😉

If it's not soldered in, I'd max it asap, regardless.

Oh, and be sure to keep a few tens of GB free on your SSD/HD. Don't forget to empty the trash to be sure.

Hi Dygear

Good day to you. After the installation of XCode 7.1 on your macbook 12", do you have any difficulty in running the Xcode and building projects with it? I have the same configuration as yours (macboko 12", 1.3ghz) but seems that my xcode would always freeze or crash.

Thanks in advance.

this beast seems to be almost twice as large at previous xcode version.

I'm using a 13 inch MBPR 2014 model with 16GB ram , 'luckily' it just takes me 30 mins to upgrade.

I think the amount of RAM is the key factor.

Hope the next upgrade won't take this long.... /_\

This is the longest installation of my life. I thought my machine was broken and then I saw that it took a few hours for some other people too.

I found this article,unfortunlatey I havent been able to try it yet but it looks promsing: http://www.sneakycrab.com/blog/2015/5/28/speeding-up-slow-install-times-when-debugging-on-a-real-apple-watch

I have a late 2011 (quad core) / 8 GB non-SSD Macbook Pro, and it takes me about 1.5-2 hours to install an Xcode upgrade. I always assumed it was the non-SSD, but I guess not.

And after that, another 30 minutes goes to installing enough additional components to actually run something on my iPhone.

Xcode 7.1 took ages to install on my late 2009 iMac, and by ages I mean roughly an order of magnitude longer than earlier versions. Xcode 7.1.1 took equally long and even when it finally finished and appeared under "Updates installed in the last 30 days" it was still showing up as an available update. Eventually I clicked "Update" on that and it installed all over again, equally slowly, and is now showing up twice under "Updates installed in the last 30 days".

Last night I installed Xcode 7.2 and again it took agaes, but fortunatrly this time I only had to install it once. It was stuck at 3 minutes remaining for the best part of a hour, occasionally jumping to some other figure like 14 minutes for a few seconds before switching back to 3 minuts.

Yup, installing Xcode 7.2 for about 20 minutes now, MacBook Air with SSD. Keeps going from "less than a minute" to "6 minutes" to "1 minute" to "7 minutes" to "13 minutes" to "less than a minute" ..... etc. etc. Very frustrating. This is all in the "installing" phase of the update, so has nothing to do with the network performance, I would assume. Why it takes so long to update a few files on an SSD, I can't fathom. And, why it has NO idea how long it will take, well, that I can fathom - called "sloppy programming"!

I guess I am lucky, the whole thing finished in about 25 minutes. Still WAY too long, but better than what the others above have reported.

MacBook Pro mid2011 El Capitan, 10.11.3 Been installing xcode since...yesterday! Im now having issues updating Silverlight, it wont complete before other installations are complete... I really want to get back to my work now.....Apple please?:)

My Xcode download is also taking very long; shifting between 2 hours and 24 days. I have 22.7 GB of memory left, which is more than enough storage. What is happening?

22.7 gb is marginal - Do the math.

All required just so the OS can breath while trying to unpack and install, not counting loaded apps such as Safari.

• Download: 7gb
• Unpacked Installer: 10gb
• Xcode Installed: 9gb
• Swap space for OS X: 8gb ~ 12gb

Glad I found this page. I have been trying to install it for the past few hours on and off. I figured something was corrupted so I'd stop the install process and try again after restarting. But reading this thread it just looks like it takes a long time to install so I'll leave it to finish and see how long it takes.

2012 Macbook Pro with only 4gb of ram so that's probably the reason it's so dreadfully slow. I should probably upgrade those sticks 😁

Newb here. Just found the same problem myself. It wouldn't be an issue if the App Store made it clear up front that a) this is a massive app for those who just want to tweak a little code now and then and b) it's an overnight install. It's expectations that ar the issue here.