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Xcode 13/iOS15 is taking longer than expected to launch, it shows a LLDB related message

I am using Xcode 13 on a Macbook Pro (Intel/2019) with macOS Big Sur 11.6

I am building and launching the app on a connecting iPhone X running iOS 15.0, I am also running a UI test suite based on XCUITest while I do that.

The app takes extremely long to launch (2+ minutes), then it sits on the splash screen for another 2-3 minutes. Meanwhile, Xcode shows the alert attached:

Xcode 13:app is taking longer than expected

I have 2 questions:

  1. Is this a widespread Xcode 13 / iOS 15 issue?
  2. What does the message in the alert mean: "LLDB is likely reading from device memory to resolve symbols"? Is there anything I can do to reduce or avoid this wait?
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    Once your debug session is running, pause your app (or hit a breakpoint) and in the Debugger Console window, and do image list. This will list every binary / dylib / framework in the process, there will be as many as five hundred these days.

    After the filename, if you see a hex address, then lldb has had to read all of the libraries out of memory on device startup. Xcode expands a local copy of all your device libraries on the Mac so lldb can find them there, instead of reading them from memory.

    If you look in ~/Libraries/Developer/Xcode, there’s a iOS DeviceSupport directory. You can remove it, re-launch Xcode and it will re-expand the libraries for your iOS etc devices as they’re plugged in.

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    For those that are not familiar with the command line, go into your terminal and you can do this command.

    rm -r ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport

    This will recursively delete everything in the file tree in the ‘iOS DeviceSupport’ folder.

    The steps are

    1. Disconnect your device
    2. Quit Xcode
    3. Open a terminal window and run the above command.
    4. Open Xcode
    5. plug in your device and run your app.

    The first time that you run the app will take a while as your computer re-obtains the information that you deleted, but subsequent runs of the app should work much faster.
    That is what worked for me.

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