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Managing Multiple Xcodes

If you have multiple Xcode installations you may choose which toolset Appium should use with one of two ways:

xcode-select tool

Only available with sudo privileges, affects the whole system.

Assuming you want to choose /Applications/Xcode13.app: 1. Set default Xcode. 

sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode13.app/Contents/Developer
2. Run Appium (from command line or with GUI). 
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Environment variable

No privileges needed, affects only the current shell, so Appium should be started within that shell.

Assuming you want to choose /Applications/Xcode12.app: 1. Set DEVELOPER_DIR environment variable. 

export DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode12.app/Contents/Developer
2. Run Appium from the same shell. 
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