Installing Xcode with “not enough disk space available”

Philip Niedertscheider
Geek Culture
Published in
7 min readAug 2, 2021

Phrases like “Xcode Beta 1X.Y.Z is out now” or “Did you try the new features of the latest Xcode update yet?” fill an iOS/macOS developer with joy. A new IDE update can be something similar to, e.g. a new knife for a chef, or a kid receiving the toy it always wanted.

But then, the devastating moment, destroying all happiness at once:

“Xcode.xip can’t be expanded because the current volume doesn’t have enough free space.”

Philip Niedertscheider
Geek Culture

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