Xcode- Deleted images appear in simulator

Manually removing the build folder may help. Clean does not always do this properly, for reasons unknown. The build folder used to be in the project directory, but now (also) exists in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/

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Oh wait I had a brainstorm because of your suggestion above, and from Terminal I used: find . -name 'myimage.png' 2> /dev/null and I found the secret hidden cache! It is in my user library here: ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.3.2/Applications/ Just delete everything in the Applications directory. May also need to do this one as well: ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.0/Applications/

I had the same thing when I was adding transparent background to an image that was already part of the project.

What worked:

1) Delete app from Simulator (long press and hit X).

2) Also I had to remove old image files from project and then reload the new transparent background images into the project.

Also hit Project > Clean multiple times.

I had the same. Very strange because the simulator displayed the no longer existingimages and the development-phone displayed the correct images.

I had already removed them from the folder. And deleted them from the simulator. For me a Product > Clean did the trick.