Take the 2-minute tour ×  There are a few questions relating to
this topic but nothing quite the same when it comes down to the
details:  We would like to use the iOS Simulator without
installing the rest of XCode on a macbook. It is an in-house
laptop, and will be used by employees, but not engineers.  We
already know how to run applications on the simulator without
the source code and compiling required, but it would be nice to
be able to install a 100MB app and application support that can
run our in-house distribution app as opposed to a 2.4GB XCode
installation. Any ideas? Thanks.  share|improve this question  2
Answers 2  up vote 6 down vote accepted  The Simulator app
requires several other large directories from the Xcode
distribution in order to work at all. The only official way to
install all of those properly is to install the entire SDK from
the dmg. Then you can experiment with deleting the hopefully
"unneeded" directories. Be prepared to start over if you delete
something that the Simulator req