Xcode Symbol navigator - Symbols displayed twice once each for iOS device and iOS Simulator

Question

The Xcode Symbol navigator is listing the framework supplied symbols twice; once each for iOS and Simulator.

For instance, here's NSObject listed for Simulator

and NSObject listed for iOS Device

Similarly, here's UIDevice listed for Simulator

and UIDevice listed for iOS Device

As I recall, this never used to be the case. The symbols should be listed only once.

I am using Xcode Version 9.3 (9E145), running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 (17E202).

Update: I am using Xcode Version 9.4.1 (9F2000), running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 (17F77) (both of them current as of this writing).

How do I get back to the default behaviour of showing each symbol only once?

I have already tried:

Cleaning the build folder,
Restarting Xcode,
Deleting derive data
Restarting the system.
Reinstalling Xcode.

The behaviour is observed in every project that I open with Xcode.

Does this happen in other user accounts on the same computer? Can you flush Xcode preferences? — JBis, Jun 28 '18 at 10:50
I have only one user account in my system. Let me create a new account and try. — Nimesh Neema, Jun 28 '18 at 10:51
As I figured. Would you be willing to flush Xcode settings plist (probably in ~/Library/Preferences)? If so **copy to your desktop** incase anything goes wrong. — JBis, Jun 28 '18 at 10:57
Can you try [this](https://gist.github.com/maciekish/66b6deaa7bc979d0a16c50784e16d697)? Bit of a Hail Mary here. — JBis, Jun 28 '18 at 11:02
That worked. Can you add it as an answer with the script inline? Thanks. — Nimesh Neema, Jun 28 '18 at 11:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 06 '18 at 11:41

Since the issue only appears on your user account, try:

Flushing Xcode preferences plist file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist. (Warning: This will reset all the custom user preferences).

Run the following reset script from here:

#!/bin/bash
killall Xcode
xcrun -k
xcodebuild -alltargets clean
rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/org.llvm.clang/ModuleCache"
rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/org.llvm.clang.$(whoami)/ModuleCache"
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/*
open /Applications/Xcode.app

Most likely some setting got switched on that you can't figure out how to switch off. If you would like to figure out what the setting exactly is you can probably compare the plists.

Xcode Symbol navigator - Symbols displayed twice once each for iOS device and iOS Simulator

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