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Xcode 9 alongside Xcode 8?

The Xcode 9 installation is completely and completely different from previous versions.

The previous 100s explanations on the net and on SO on how to do this pre-8 are no longer helpful

After this dialogue

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Xcode9 wants to make changes.

Actually, will mine 8.3.3 be removed?

Do you need to "move 8.3.3 to a different folder before clicking this button?"

What's the really best pipeline having both 8.3.3 and 9?

Considering emlai's great answer below,

another subtlety is that Xcode9 then wants ...

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will it work with Xcode8 components and tools?

Interestingly, I found that running Xcode9 once eliminated all simulators for my Xcode 8 installation!

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Actually, will mine 8.3.3 be removed?

Not.

Do you need to "move 8.3.3 to a different folder before clicking this button?"



Not.

Beta Xcodes are named Xcode-beta.app

so you can store them in the same application folder as non-beta.

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From the first page of Xcode 9 notes:



Xcode 9 ... can coexist with previous versions of Xcode.

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After installing Xcode 9 beta, all simulators disappeared.

To solve this problem, I deleted the beta version from the Applications folder and started using it from the desktop. Simulators were introduced in Xcode 8.

Then I moved the .app to my Applications folder again and everything works fine. I can even use both versions at the same time.

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