
What an annoyance and waste of bandwidth.įortunately after much, much googling, I’ve discovered a way to permanently uninstall this command line tools. What’s worse, there’s no way to opt out and I ended up installing the command line tools only to un-install it again. But strangely during the next macOS update cycle - which also updated Xcode in roughly the same time frame - I was prompted to update the command line tools as well.

Then when I no longer have the need, I’ve uninstalled it as per Apple’s directions. I installed Xcode’s command line tools because I needed an older version of Xcode for use with NVidia’s toolkit. Editing functionality may be limited.Have you ever uninstalled Xcode Command Line Tools only to have it comes back again when Xcode gets updated or there’s a macOS update? You might have a need for the command line tools at that time but don’t need it any longer - however it seems to find a way to get back into your system. Using xcode-select to choose the version of Xcode you’re using also solves the following problem you may see when opening a storyboard: Just make sure to replace Xcode.app with the version you want to use - perhaps sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode\ 9.app/ instead.


$ sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/ There’s a simple solution - run the following in Terminal: “Error returned in reply: Connection Invalid. If builds are failing in Xcode 9, for example, due to the following: Use xcode-select on the command line whenever you need to switch between versions. Name the older version Xcode 8.3.3 or whatever you likeĭrag the Xcode 8.3.3.app to /Applications Go to to download the older version of Xcode you need and extract the archive.

