How to find out Xcode Version in M1 Macbook’s

Shrayan Bandyopadhyay
2 min readMar 9, 2022

There is no direct way to find out your Xcode version .

Apple always finds out a way to make simple things complicated. Such an instance is where you try to find out which Xcode Command Line Tool’s version you are currently on.

Before you follow the below steps and search for your Xcode version, please make sure that you have actually have installed Xcode command line tools on your system. It should be something above 10 GB.

Step One: Type the line of code given below in your terminal to check the version of clang you are currently running.

clang --version
Terminal Window snapshot showing the clang version using the above line of code.

For me the version is displayed as: (In the third line)

Apple clang version 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)

Step Two: Go to the Xcode Wikipedia page (given below) where you will be able to find out the relevant Xcode version with the version of your clang.

Scroll down to the “Version comparison table” and then to the “Toolchain Version History”, there you will be able to find out the exact Xcode version you are on by matching it with your current clang version.

In the above table you can see that the corresponding Xcode version to my current clang version is Xcode 13.2.1.

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