Multiple Xcode Versions on One Mac

With the recent release of Xcode 6.0, some of you may be wondering if you can have both Xcode 5 and 6 installed on your Mac. The answer is yes. You can have both Xcode 5 and 6 installed on one machine.

Before you install a second version of Xcode, you should rename the version of Xcode you have on your Mac. When you install Xcode from the Mac App Store, Apple installs it in your Applications folder and gives it the name Xcode. If you have Xcode 5.1 installed and don’t rename it, the Mac App Store will overwrite your Xcode 5.1 installation with Xcode 6.0. Rename your Xcode 5.1 installation to something like Xcode 5 before installing Xcode 6, and you’ll have both versions on your Mac.

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This post applies only to Xcode 4.3 and later. Earlier versions of Xcode used an installer that overwrote any existing versions of Xcode installed on that machine.