Xcode updating is extremely slow

Question

After updating my gadgets with iOS 9 I\'ve tried to update Xcode to Xcode 7 on my Mac through the App Store, but updating is too slow while speedtest.net shows that my download

Answer 1

In my case, I was running out of Disk space on main partition as I have partitions on my Hard Drive and all these partitions act as different drives. By sparing a couple of GBs, the download speed got to normal.

Answer 2

If you're downloading from your office network, try switching to another. This might be happening because of the security measures, an internal DNS resolver as I am told, or a firewall; so it's hard to tell what's happening but switching to the "guest" network allowed me to download it pretty fast in my case.

Although it's unlikely that your problem is caused by this, but you can check the Apple systems status on this page.

Answer 3

I had the same issue, the update ran forever and never finished. I uninstalled Xcode and when i tried to install it again it said I needed the OS X 10.12 at least.

So i upgraded OS X and then installed Xcode 8.3

I wish the update told me that before i wasted 2 days trying to figure it out.. Hope it helps!

Answer 4

I had the same issue downloading Xcode 7.2. The download was drastically slow compared to my internet download speed. Try this fix it worked for me: