Remove or uninstall library previously added : cocoapods

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I added an external framework via cocoapods into my iOS application. How can i remove that library from the project?

score 477 · Answer 1 · edited May 26 '14 at 20:43

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Remove lib from Podfile, then pod install again.

edited May 26 '14 at 20:43

Titouan de Bailleul

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answered Dec 07 '12 at 07:50

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When I do this, I'm left with dozens of warnings in XCode 5 complaining that the workspace can't find the removed files. I've tried to manually clean this up but have not been successful. How can you cleanly remove a pod? – Matt Mombrea Dec 19 '13 at 01:18
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Find the pods file in Finder, then delete each of the individual pods (you'll notice they're missing the .h and .m files). Then `pod update`. That worked for me. – AMayes Jan 09 '14 at 22:32
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Also remember if library A is referenced by library B, which is also in Podfile, library A won't be removed even if you remove its entry and run "pod install". Library A will only be removed if you also removed the entry for library B. – CodeBrew Mar 06 '15 at 05:20
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You also get the warnings that @MattMombrea mentions if you successfully deleted the podfiles, but haven't committed the change. Make sure everything is committed to the code repository. – HughHughTeotl Oct 02 '15 at 11:10
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The article that @vrunoa mentions is now a dead link. This article is helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16427421/how-to-remove-cocoapods-from-a-project – Lane Rettig Jan 14 '16 at 19:51
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I want to delete a framework installed by pod without updating or installing podfile – Anand Prakash Nov 18 '16 at 11:03

score 397 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 09 '21 at 06:46

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The unwanted side effects of simple folder delete or installing over existing installation have been removed by a script written by Kyle Fuller - deintegrate and here is the proper workflow:

Install clean:
```
sudo gem install cocoapods-clean
```
Run deintegrate in the folder of the project:
```
pod deintegrate
```
~~Clean~~ (this tool is no longer available):
```
pod clean
```
Modify your podfile (delete the lines with the pods you don't want to use anymore) and run:
```
pod install
```

Done.

edited Nov 09 '21 at 06:46

Nabeel Khan

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answered Feb 10 '16 at 13:33

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This pod should be the accepted answer, because it is much more thorough. Although, before following this workflow, I would suggest to clear the contents of the project's Derived Data directory, and make sure to commit the project's changes to the existing code repository. Finally, after running `pod install`, I opened the Xcode xcworkspace file, performed a full clean on the build folder (alt+shift+command+K), and the warnings/linker errors were gone. Pods were now successfully uninstalled from the project. – Mark Barrasso Jan 30 '17 at 21:30
Note to @All: This command`cocoapods-clean` deletes the `Podfile` and `.xcworkspace` – Suhaib Jun 15 '17 at 11:02
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Seems now `pod deintegrate` is official: http://guides.cocoapods.org/terminal/commands.html#pod_deintegrate No need for `sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate`. – Pang Aug 07 '17 at 04:54
I found that when I removed SwiftLint from my project, that I also had to manually remove a line referencing it from the run script. – Vince O'Sullivan Apr 05 '18 at 07:55
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I second that from @ZinWinHtet, when I try `pod clean` I get: `$ pod clean [!] Unknown command: clean` – ScottyBlades Sep 21 '18 at 22:12
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yes... , pod clean no longer exists anymore I think. – Zin Win Htet Sep 24 '18 at 07:38
@Outsider that is interesting. What is your situation? – Michal Feb 26 '19 at 10:01
I had a project where I incorrectly added a podfile. I then changed it by changing teh text and restarting teh project which is incorrect. Then I tried this and it did not work at that point – Feb 26 '19 at 21:30
Fully completing all these steps did the trick. I still had to remove a few Pods-related files from the Finder and Xcode, but the Xcode project file built correctly after replacement of the pods with Swift Package Manager. – Womble Feb 10 '20 at 03:03

score 27 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 27 '17 at 03:57

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Remove the library from your Podfile
Run pod install on the terminal

edited Aug 27 '17 at 03:57

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answered Aug 27 '17 at 01:14

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 09 '19 at 18:21

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None of these worked for me. I have pod version 1.5.3 and the correct method was to remove the pods that were not longer needed from the Podfile and then run:

pod update

This updates your Podfile.lock file from your Podfile, removes libraries that have been removed and updates all of your libraries.

answered Jan 09 '19 at 18:21

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You don't need to update all the libraries in your project (something that can be very dangerous) just to remove a library. There are much better ways in this thread including removing the pod from your podfile and then running `pod install` – Braden Holt May 26 '20 at 20:20
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This updates all versions of your libraries and naturally removes the one that is not present anymore in the Podfile, but do you really want to update the libraries ? Removing the pod and `pod install` is the correct way. – Karim Mortabit Jun 02 '20 at 23:25

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 06 '16 at 09:21

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Remove pod name(which to remove) from Podfile and then
Open Terminal, set project folder path
Run pod install --no-integrate

answered Apr 06 '16 at 09:21

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I'm getting this error: `[!] Unknown option: '--no-integrate'` – neoneye Nov 23 '18 at 12:00

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 15 '22 at 15:57

First, determine which versions of Cocoapods are installed :

gem list --local | grep cocoapods

You get output as this:

cocoapods (1.11.2)
cocoapods-clean (0.0.1)
cocoapods-core (1.11.2, 1.10.2, 1.10.1)
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.4)

To completely remove, issue the following commands:

gem uninstall cocoapods
gem uninstall cocoapods-clean
gem uninstall cocoapods-core
gem uninstall cocoapods-deintegrate

Running again to confirm that Cocoapods has been removed:

gem list --local | grep cocoapods

You may have residual artefacts in a hidden folder in your directory. Remove these with:

rm -rf ~/.cocoapods

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 09 '18 at 08:23

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Remove pod name from Podfile then Open Terminal, set project folder path and Run pod update command.

NOTE: pod update will update all the libraries to the latest version and will also remove those libraries whose name have been removed from podfile.

answered Apr 09 '18 at 08:23

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