[xcode] How to remove CocoaPods from a project?

What's the right way of removing CocoaPods from a project? I want to remove the whole CocoaPod. Due to some limitations imposed by my client I can't use it. I need to have just one xcodeproj instead of an xcworkspace.

Delete all related pod files:

• xx.xcworkspace
• Podfile
• Podfile.lock

and in the Project Navigator:

Click on the project name (blue icon) --> Targets (*) --> Build Phases --> Remove "[CP] Check Pods manifests.lock" (click on the "x")

(*) Click on the project name, you might have to click on "Show project and target list" to see the side bar first.

1. The first thing that you will need to do is remove the Podfile, Podfile.lock, the Pods folder, and the generated workspace.
2. Next, in the .xcodeproj, remove the references to the Pods.xcconfig files and the libPods.a file.
3. Within the Build Phases project tab, delete the Check Pods Manifest.lock section (open), Copy Pods Resources section (bottom) and Embed Pod Resources(bottom).
4. Remove Pods.framework.

The only thing you may want to do is include some of the libraries that you were using before. You can do this by simply draging whatever folders where in the pods folders into your project (I prefer to put them into my Supporting Files folder).

It worked for me.

I was able to remove my pods in the project using the CocoaPods app (Version 1.5.2). Afterwards I only deleted the podfile, podfile.lock and xcworkspace files in the folder.

From terminal cd to move to the project folder. The below steps help to de-integrate the pod from the project

$ sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate cocoapods-clean
$ pod deintegrate
$ pod clean
$ rm Podfile

Then just open the project file and remove the Pod folder if it is still on the Project Explorer with red color. Build the project

$ sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate cocoapods-clean
$ pod deintegrate
$ pod clean
$ rm Podfile

I tried all these answers but it still wouldn't build, eventually I tried:

pod deintegrate
pod install

which actually worked!

It's like it needs to remove all the pod scripts from your build phases and re-add them back in for it to work, at least in my case.

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pod deintegrate

After this cmd, no traces of Cocoapods left in your project.

But your workspace referencing the Pods project still remains, you need to should remove below 3 files manually:

xx.xcworkspace
Podifle
Podfile.lock

Then you can use your project again.

Have fun!

Test CocoaPod version = 1.2.0

There can be two aspects developer may face.

• Either he wants to remove pods completely from project
• developer wants to uninstall particular framework from project from pods.

In first case you have to use 'pod deintegrate' and follow several steps which are mentioned in the answers above.

For second case that is if you want to uninstall any particular framework which is installed there very simple way available in your pod file just comment the framework which you want to uninstall and run pod install command.

# Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'
target 'ProjectName' do
  # Uncomment this line if you're using Swift or would like to use dynamic frameworks
  # use_frameworks!

    pod 'iCarousel', '~> 1.8'
#    pod 'Facebook-iOS-SDK', '~> 4.1'
#    pod 'ParseFacebookUtilsV4', '~> 1.11'
#    pod 'Parse', '~> 1.14'


end

Here I want to uninstall facebook and parse frameworks (which were installed using pods) and not iCarousel that is why I have updated my pod file like above.

Now if I run pod install it will keep iCarousel as it is in my project and will remove facebook and parse.

I don't think you need to deintegrate anymore. I was able to do it with the following command in terminal:

pod install

and it automatically removed the ones that are no longer in the podfile

Use these Terminal's commands (Don't forget to use sudo at the beginning of new lines):

open:YourDir YouName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods
Password:?
Remove executables:
    pod, sandbox-pod

in addition to the gem? [Yn]  Y
Removing pod
Removing sandbox-pod
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-1.4.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-core (1.4.0)
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.2)
cocoapods-downloader (1.1.3)
cocoapods-plugins (1.0.0)
cocoapods-search (1.0.0)
cocoapods-stats (1.0.0)
cocoapods-trunk (1.3.0)
cocoapods-try (1.1.0)

Uninstall the list one by one like this:

open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-core
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-core-1.4.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-trunk
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-trunk-1.3.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-try
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-try-1.1.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-stats
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-stats-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-search
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-search-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-downloader
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-downloader-1.1.3
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-plugins
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-plugins-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.2)
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-deintegrate
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-deintegrate-1.0.2
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-stats
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-stats-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-search
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-search-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-downloader
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-downloader-1.1.3
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-plugins
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-plugins-1.0.0
open:YourDir YourName$ gem list --local | grep cocoapods
cocoapods-deintegrate (1.0.2)
open:YourDir YourName$ sudo gem uninstall cocoapods-deintegrate
Successfully uninstalled cocoapods-deintegrate-1.0.2

I am gonna write what iv done very briefly (to delete any CocoaPods from my project)..

1. delete any added folder (frameworks, Pods,...)
2. delete any added files (PROJECT.xcworkspace, PodFile, PodFile.lock, Pods-PROJECT.debug.xcconfig, Pods-PROJECT.release.xcconfig,...)
3. just leave your original ones (PROJECT, PROJECT_Tests, PROJECT.xcodeproj)
4. remove framework reference from the project on xcode

To remove the framework reference from xcode:

1. Use the Project Navigator
2. Select Project
3. Select Target PROJECT
4. Select Build Phases from the top options
5. leave the default groups (Target Dependencies, Compile Sources, Linked Binary with Libraries, Copy Bundle Resources) and delete any other

If you just want to remove one pod and keep others you may have installed, open the podfile in your app directory and delete the one you want to remove. Then navigate to your app directory using terminal and type:

pod update

This will remove the pod you removed from the podfile. You will see it has been removed in the terminal:

Analyzing dependencies
Removing FirebaseUI
Removing UICircularProgressRing

Note that this method will also pull any updates to the other pods in your podfile. You may or may not want that.

If not work, try
1. clean the project.
2. deleted derived data.

if you don't know how to delete derived data go here

How to "Delete derived data" in Xcode6?

I think there's a more easy way to do that.

As edited by the accepted answer, now you can use a third party plugin cocoapods-deintegrate, it's reliable because its made by a CocoaPods core team member.

But,there're still some files remain:

Podfile
Podfile.lock
Workspace

You could remove them from your project manually,but there's also another tool for helping you to clean them, thanks cocoapods-clean.

Finally, the uninstallation work is still not completed, cocoapods-clean don't clean the Podfile, just run:

rm Podfile

Cheers!

Before removing you should ensure you have a backup of your project!

Keith's answer is great - I just want to point out that because Cocoapods 0.36 is starting to support Dynamic Frameworks, if you are using 'use_frameworks!' in your 'Podfile' and you wish to remove the Cocoapods, you must do this:

• Under Build Phases delete Embed Pods Frameworks phase.

pod deintegrate and pod clean are two designated commands to remove CocoaPod from your project/repo.

Here is the complete set of commands:

$ sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate cocoapods-clean
$ pod deintegrate
$ pod cache clean --all
$ rm Podfile

The original solution was found here: https://medium.com/@icanhazedit/remove-uninstall-deintegrate-cocoapods-from-your-xcode-ios-project-c4621cee5e42#.wd00fj2e5

CocoaPod documentation on pod deintegrate: https://guides.cocoapods.org/terminal/commands.html#pod_deintegrate

To remove pods from a project completely you need to install two thing first...those are follows(Assuming you have already cocoa-pods installed in your system.)...

1. Cocoapods-Deintegrate Plugin
2. Cocoapods-Clean Plugin

Installation

1. Cocoapods-Deintegrate Plugin

   Use this following command on your terminal to install it.

   sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate
   

2. Cocoapods-Clean Plugin

   Use this following command on your terminal to install it.

   sudo gem install cocoapods-clean
   

Usage

First of all goto your project folder by using the as usual command like..

cd (path of the project) //Remove the braces after cd

Now use those two plugins to remove it completely as follows..

1. Cocoapods-Deintegrate Plugin

   Use this following command on your terminal to deintegrate the pods from your project first.

    pod deintegrate
   

2. Cocoapods-Clean Plugin

   After deintegration of pod from your project use this following command on your terminal to clean it completely.

    pod clean
   

   After completing the above tasks there should be the Podfile still remaining on your project directory..Just delete that manually or use this following command on the terminal..

    rm Podfile
   

Thats it...Now you have your project free from pods...Cleaned.

Removing Cocoapods from the system.

Any way try to use the following command on your terminal to uninstall/remove the coca-pods from your system.

sudo gem uninstall cocoapods

It will remove the coca-pods automatically.

Thanks. Hope this helped.

1. Remove the podfile name from .plist
2. Reinstall the pod again (use this link for pod installation)