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at 4.4 ish GB, my late 2013 MB Pro's internel SSD with 7.9 GB available ought to be able to handle size requirements for this update, I would think. Or, would have thought. Still, it said no, so I freed up a bit more space. Xcode still responds with "There is not enough disk space available to install the product."
Why is that?

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michaelvsprague

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as a workaround, download xcode 12.0.1 xip file directly from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ to an external drive and install from there. that will save you 11.21gb on your internal drive

Posted by

vagif

Didn't work for me. After spending several hours on expanding xip file I could't opened the file. I've ended in the end with removing existing version of the Xcode and reinstalling it from App Store. I hope this issue will be fixed soon by Apple.

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msaric

PSA - I deleted most of ~/Library/Developer/iOS DeviceSupport/ to get up to 65gb free, so now the XCode 12.0.1 11gb patch/upgrade is finally installing…

Posted by

Tomlinson

I'm having the same issue everyone else is having. Are they working on a solution?

Posted by

MoneyMo

You need to have at least 40GB with Catalina to download XCode although the app itself only takes up to 12GB. Even 39GB free space won't work, it has to be above 40GB.

Posted by

potatobillie

you need at least 40GB of space to download XCode on your macbook

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Tawaabb

If you already have Xcode installed and it's taking up a lot of space, removing it first may help bring the available space over the threshold.

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connorhawke

That being said, this time it kept freezing when attempting to download/install 12.1 via the App Store, although there was enough space. However, downloading/installing via https://developer.apple.com/download/more/, as previously linked, worked. It doesn't need to be to/from an external drive if there is enough space.

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connorhawke

Same issue for me Xcode 12.2.
Cleaning up storage to 40+ GB free space helped.

You must display this info on AppStore page.

Posted by

SerhiiS-iOSDev

I had the same issue as well. I freed up close to 41G to get mine to work as well.

Posted by

ArthurStuart

I had the same problem using MacBook Air 2017. For me it worked after clearing about approximately 41.2 GB of space.

Posted by

leonard_dlima

Clean all XCode caches by this app.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devcleaner-for-xcode/id1388020431?mt=12

And it work.
Thank for Konrad Kolakowski

Posted by

Lucas Luu

There's something not quite right with all of this and it should be looked into. In order for me to update to Xcode 12.4 I had to clear 45GB of space. Yes... 45GB! I ended up deleting stuff I needed just to work around this.

A large chunk of my disk space is already filled with Xcode and simulator related files. It would be nice if Apple could add in some features to clean this up once in a while, rather than having to rely on 3rd party disk sweepers to identify the issues.

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andrewharland

Clear space up to 40 GB for XCode 13 (min 40 GB required). The issue will be resolved

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shanmukhdontu8

Same issue here, started on 8Gb free space and the did a big clean up of files until I had 40Gb of free space and it was still displaying pop-up. Then I restarted the mac and it was fine.

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juan.moya

46GB for a 13.2.1!

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BonusTree