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If you are an iOS / MacOS developer who makes use of the snippets facility in Xcode you may occasionally find yourself caught out when working on a different Mac. This used to happen to me a lot in my contracting days. I have 10 years worth of snippets with auto completion keystrokes but on a Mac that doesn't belong to me they are worth nothing. There is a really simple solution that makes use of Apple's cloud infrastructure which allows the sharing of Xcode snippets between as many machines as you like. Here's how it's done. We will use the relatively low tech but insanely useful Symbolic Link approach, essentially moving our snippets to our own personal iCloud account, then creating a link, or signpost if you like, that Xcode will follow with no complaint, maintenance free once configured. The steps are easy to follow. be aware that Apple from time to time move where things live. So the snippets home today may not be where they live in 5 years from now, but I'm su...