How to remove CocoaPods from a project?

Question

What\'s the right way of removing CocoaPods from a project? I want to remove the whole CocoaPod. Due to some limitations imposed by my client I can\'t use it. I need to have

Answer 1

Use these Terminal's commands (Don't forget to use sudo at the beginning of new lines):

open:YourDir YouName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
Password:?
Remove executables:
    pod, sandbox-pod

in addition to the gem? [Yn]  Y
Removing pod
Removing sandbox-pod
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-1.4.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-core (1.4.0)
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.2)
cocoapods-downloader (1.1.3)
cocoapods-plugins (1.0.0)
cocoapods-search (1.0.0)
cocoapods-stats (1.0.0)
cocoapods-trunk (1.3.0)
cocoapods-try (1.1.0)

Uninstall the list one by one like this:

open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-core
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-core-1.4.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-trunk
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-trunk-1.3.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-try
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-try-1.1.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-stats
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-stats-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-search
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-search-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-downloader
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-downloader-1.1.3
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-plugins
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-plugins-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.2)
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-deintegrate
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-deintegrate-1.0.2
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-stats
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-stats-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-search
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-search-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-downloader
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-downloader-1.1.3
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-plugins
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-plugins-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.2)
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-deintegrate
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-deintegrate-1.0.2

Answer 2

I was able to remove my pods in the project using the CocoaPods app (Version 1.5.2). Afterwards I only deleted the podfile, podfile.lock and xcworkspace files in the folder.

Answer 3

pod deintegrate and pod clean are two designated commands to remove CocoaPod from your project/repo.

Here is the complete set of commands:

$ sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate cocoapods-clean
$ pod deintegrate
$ pod cache clean --all
$ rm Podfile

The original solution was found here: https://medium.com/@icanhazedit/remove-uninstall-deintegrate-cocoapods-from-your-xcode-ios-project-c4621cee5e42#.wd00fj2e5

CocoaPod documentation on pod deintegrate: https://guides.cocoapods.org/terminal/commands.html#pod_deintegrate

Answer 4

I think there's a more easy way to do that.

As edited by the accepted answer, now you can use a third party plugin cocoapods-deintegrate, it's reliable because its made by a CocoaPods core team member.

But,there're still some files remain:

Podfile
Podfile.lock
Workspace

You could remove them from your project manually，but there's also another tool for helping you to clean them, thanks cocoapods-clean.

Finally, the uninstallation work is still not completed, cocoapods-clean don't clean the Podfile, just run:

rm Podfile

Cheers!

Before removing you should ensure you have a backup of your project!

Answer 5

I tried all these answers but it still wouldn't build, eventually I tried:

pod deintegrate
pod install

which actually worked!

It's like it needs to remove all the pod scripts from your build phases and re-add them back in for it to work, at least in my case.

Answer 6

$ sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate cocoapods-clean
$ pod deintegrate
$ pod clean
$ rm Podfile