killall Xcode
– Kills all running Xcode processes.
sudo killall -9 com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService
– Kills all running CoreSimulatorService’s processes.
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices
– Removes all Simulator data, from all the Simulators.
– Opens Xcode.
open /Applications/Xcode.app
The above steps from xcode 10 are invalid, please use the following steps:
xcrun simctl shutdown all
shutdown all devices
xcrun simctl list devices|grep -v "unavailable"|grep -Eo "[0-9A-F\-]{36}"
list all available devices
xcrun simctl list devices|grep -v "unavailable"|grep -Eo "[0-9A-F\-]{36}"|xargs xcrun simctl delete
delete all devices(note: this is a single line)
more detail xcrun simctl help