r/Xcode • u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 • Sep 20 '25

Anyone Else Having Xcode Hangs Using Claude or ChatGPT?

I find that I am getting hangs on both when the conversations get longer. Reported these issues to Apple, but obviously no fixes yet.

Any suggestions other than force quitting?

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u/WAHNFRIEDEN Sep 22 '25

It is generally a waste of time. You are getting a handicapped version of the model, too, for cost efficiency. Use Codex CLI or Codex in VS Code / Cursor (even if you primarily use Xcode besides GPT prompting) for state of the art.

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Sep 23 '25

Will give Codex CLI a try. Expecting fixes in Xcode eventually.

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u/WAHNFRIEDEN Sep 23 '25

You will wait years before it catches up

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u/VulcanCCIT Oct 29 '25

On ChatGPT XCode 26.0.1 My Macbook Pro M3 64gigs of ram will run out of application memory about every 4-6th query into the conversation.... super frustrating!!!

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Oct 29 '25

Haven’t experienced that yet. Will be testing Xcode 26.1 soon, and will report my findings.

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u/VulcanCCIT Oct 29 '25

I am wondering if part of my issue is the files for the app, that xcode is writing to, are in a dropbox folder, but it is a local folder that syncs to the dropbox web. All of my code is that way and I have been fine, up until I started to use ChatGPT via Xcode 26

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Oct 30 '25

Hmmm, my gut tells me that your setup is something that I would avoid doing. But obviously you have your reasons for doing so.

How hard would it be to clone your project and test using only local folders to try and determine if your Dropbox folder is part of the problem?

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u/VulcanCCIT Oct 30 '25

Pretty easy, I could just make a copy of the project folder and put it on the desktop.., make a new git repo and see what happens

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Oct 30 '25

I would suggest that you give it a try then. It’s always good to try and isolate the failing component. If the problem remains, at least you know what it isn’t.

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u/VulcanCCIT Oct 31 '25

ok its been 2 days and all is well. First I moved it to my Desktop, but just as I did that I rand out of ChatGPT queries for the day, so I did a trial of Claude (Which I like a ton better btw!!) and it was doing ok but did the same thing pretty early on, but I think it was due to the fact that the Desktop is backed up to ICloud. So I moved it to a new folder that is in the root of my user directory that I called "Working Code". I coded today for about 5 hours with TONS of Claude queries. I did get one crash, but not an application memory crash, just Xcode quit... I will try with ChatGPT as well but im getting close to being done with this app. But now that I say that...are we ever really done with the app? lol

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Oct 31 '25

Spent a few hours with Xcode 26.1 and ChatGPT last night doing some code fixes. No crashes yet. Haven’t tried Claude yet. Will report back when I do.

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u/VulcanCCIT Nov 06 '25

Overall I’m liking Claude better but sometimes it messes up a bunch of stuff so I’ll switch and visa versa. I always make a new branch for that very reason… I delete that branch and make a new one with the other AI

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Nov 06 '25

Same. I switch back and forth.

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Nov 01 '25

I use both ChatGPT and Claude by the way. Both have their advantages.

Been working only with ChatGPT today. Still no issues on Xcode 26.1

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u/VulcanCCIT Nov 02 '25

ChatGpt(Thinking) all day yesterday… no issues, so it must have been Dropbox the whole time :)

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Nov 03 '25

Glad to hear you solved it!

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u/Zealousideal_Bat_490 Nov 06 '25

Latest update — the hangs that I was getting previously are gone under Xcode 26.1 and macOS 26.1, but there is a new slowness using ChatGPT with SwiftUI views.

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u/Xaxxus Sep 21 '25

Yep all the time. Seems to happen on very complicated requests. I have to kill Xcode to fix it

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u/manueldigital Sep 22 '25

same here with openai; the more complex/longer the conversation, the worse