MacOS is the worst copy of a unix system.

I'm the same situation: hours of waiting without being able to work. Ironically, I could get 500MB/sec ATT fiber for much less than what Comcast is charging, but that is another story… My typical speed tests show around 100MB/sec bandwidth over Comcast cable. Using Layer Four Traceroute (see brew info lft), I am 9 hops from, and it takes me nearly an hour to get Xcode 13.* downloaded and installed via the Mac App Store. If there is any Internet infrastructure between you and Apple's servers that has failed, causing re-routing and slower response, that too may be a cause of these long experienced delays. If you jump on the first Mac App Store update notice for the newest Xcode, you will be competing with millions of others attempting to also download it and Apple's servers can only handle just so much load. This will show the percent of download or installation progress. You can observe the Xcode download and installation progress by placing your cursor over the blue activity circle in the Mac App Store. I always turn off Time Machine during these downloads as a huge Xcode download would drive it nuts. You have to keep an eye on the download bar, just below the Launchpad icon on the taskbar, to check how far the painfully-slow download has got.There is something going on between you and Apple servers, or your remaining available storage limitations for an installation running beyond an hour. Thanks, Apple.Īnd as usual, download times are appalling, even if (like me), you've waited a few weeks until after the release, to avoid the rush.Īnd when you finally do get to click on the Update button in App Store to update XCode, it changes to 'Installing' but actually, it's busy spending the next few hours downloading, rather than installing anything. but you can only do that if you've upgraded OS X to the latest version. iOS 8.4 has been released, but you can only get XCode to connect to an iOS 8.4 device if you've upgraded to XCode 6.4.

Previously, using the App Store 'Check for unfinished downloads' just told me that I didn't have any downloads pending, yet in the App Store app, it had XCode stuck in the 'Installing' state. Forgive the cliche, but I had to 'turn it off, then on again' (reboot the MacBook) and only then could I re-click on the 'Install' button, and it'd start downloading XCode, from scratch.

Xcode install stuck