Launch Image does not show up in my iOS App

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I want to get a simple launch screen to show in my app  built using Xcode 6 0 1   I have added a launch screen in two ways  As an XIB  with the default name  LaunchScreen xib  and as a launchimage set within xcassets   I have made sure that my  Launch Screen File  is set to LaunchScreen xib   I have simulated every device available  e g    iPhone5 iOS8     iPhone5s iOS8     iPhone6 iOS8   Note that only iOS 8 is available within the simulator

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There is a bug where Xcode 6 launch images stored in asset files cause iphone landscape only apps on iOS7/iOS8 to display a black launch image. iPad works fine.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10868

Solution: Use the new Launchscreen.xib for ios8+ onwards. (it is far better)

For ios7 devices to work you simply turn off launch images source and use the old school launch images file names in the plist

iphone5 - [email protected] 
iphone4s - [email protected]
ipad2 - Default-Landscape~ipad.png
ipad retina - Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png

Painful but works. B

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I encountered this bug also with my landscape-only app  Following carlodurso s solution works    tick the  Landscape  box drag and drop the image to the place

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I just figured this out  My launch image was not showing up  I get a white screen when launching on a device  iPhone 6  7   or testFlight  Fix  Renamed  Landing screen png  to just  Landing screen  removing  png part  The image icon in Xcode changed to white icon and in the launch screen storyboard the image appears as a question mark now  The Launch image now appears and not the white screen  My Setup  I am using Swift 3 1 with Xcode 8 3 1  In LaunchScreen storyboard I added a simple image view and stretched the image to fit the view controller  I set auto layout constraints Top Bottom Leading Trailing space to superview to 0

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Do what Spectravideo328 answered and   Try to UNCHECK the iOS 7 and later box and CHECK the iOS 6 and prior box in the asset catalog  There seems to be a bug with the iOS 7 Launch Image   These both have the same Launch Images except for the 320x480 one   Hope this helps  it did help for me

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After several hours frustrated on this  I decided to use this way  It works for both iPhone and iPad  on Xcode 6 1         File      New File      User Interface      Launch Screen   Create new key value   Launch screen interface file base name   Your Launch Screen Name  in YourApp-Info plist      1 picture worths more than thousand words  Please look at below

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I set up  LaunchImage  in my asset catalog and simply cleared the  Launch Screen  field et voila   I had the launch images appear

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One way is to also add  Launch Screen   LaunchScreen xib   paste the image into UIImageView and then set it to  Horizontal Center in Container  and  Vertical Center in Container  in  Align  if you are using Auto Layout   Screen  http   i stack imgur com CfnHT png  Don t forget to put LaunchScreen xib into  Launch Screen File

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So this has been quite painful for something that should be trivial  Here is what I did   Use xcassets  I decided to use  xcassets versus the  xib for launch  I deleted the  xib  If you have images xcassets already in your project then great  otherwise you can add one from File New file     Create a Launch Image Set  Now create at a minimum a launchimage set and icon set in your  xcassets file by right clicking in the navigator area     Update the App Icons and Launch Images Settings  Then I made sure that the  Apps icon and image sets  in my target are as below    Very Important  Make sure the  Launch screen file  setting is blank     Add the Images  Last but not least  the terminology used by Apple for the device selection is confusing  Initially I thought that since I am deploying for iOS8 only  iPhone Portrait   I can do this and just put in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6  launch images     I quickly realized that is not the way this works and I was getting a warning   An iPhone Retina  4-inch  launch image for iOS 7 0 and later is required    So I had to select the iPhone under iOS 7 0 and later as well and add an Image for the iPhone 5s    So to find out which boxes to check on the right  do not ask the question  What is my minimum iOS and device and device orientation but rather ask   What devices out there can support my minimum iOS  Now What is the minimum iOS supported on those devices  And make sure you check all of those boxes  So for me  I am targeting iPhone 5s  6 and 6 Plus at 8 0 but given that iPhone 5s can exist with 7 0  I need to check the 7 0 box as well to show the image placeholder  In other words  the  iOS  check box on the right shows you the minimum iOS version available for that device and you need to click it to show the image placeholder and put an image regardless of whether you are deploying at this iOS version or not   Hope this helps somebody

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I have tried everything but solution was extremely simple  Just use  jpg file instead of  png on your LaunchScreen storyboard  It seems like iOS does not render  png file or relatively big image size at launch screen

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I had a very strange bug  Apparently my launch image source was only set for debug configuration and not release  This resulted in my launch screen appearing when running debug configuration  but when I changed to release I just got a black screen   I fixed this when I changed my build configuration to release the Launch Image Source button appeared and I had to choose Use Asset Catalog again    For those who are curious  this is what my project pbxproj looked like               XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    Release                    isa   XCBuildConfiguration              buildSettings                     ALWAYS SEARCH USER PATHS   NO                  ASSETCATALOG COMPILER APPICON NAME   AppIcon                  ASSETCATALOG COMPILER LAUNCHIMAGE NAME   LaunchImage   lt ---THIS LINE WAS MISSING

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Removing  Launch screen interface file base name  from Info plist file AND trashing  Launch Screen xib  worked for me

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My solution was to create all the launch images    Then I set the Launch Images Source to the LaunchImage asset  and leave launch screen file blank   Finally if the project does not have a Launch Screen xib  then add that file and leave it as is

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For me  it worked when I uninstalled the app and then restarted the simulator  When installed again  launch image appeared as expected  This also worked on an actual device

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I ve read about a bug in Xcode 6 which prevents landscape only apps from displaying a launch image   Try to set images and orientation within Images xcassets

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Xcode 8   Images used in LaunchScreen xib should not be on a  xcassets  try dropping them in the bundle   Looks like that by the time that the  xib gets loaded  the images in the  xcassets are not yet available   EDIT  For some opaque reason after adding some localizations  launch screen stopped working  now it works with an image from the assets  extremely weird

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Xcode 7 2   Deployment Target 7 0   Landscape Orientation Only     I know is an old question but with Xcode 7 2 I m still getting the message and I fixed with this   1  Select PORTRAIT and both landscapes  Add  Launch Images Source  and  Launch Screen File     2  In your Launch Image select iPhone  8 0 and Later  and  7 0 and Later      3  Add this code in your appDelegate    if   IPHONE OS VERSION MAX ALLOWED  lt  90000 -  NSUInteger supportedInterfaceOrientations       return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape     else -  UIInterfaceOrientationMask application  UIApplication   application     supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow  UIWindow   window       return  UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape      endif   4  Add this on your ViewController   if   IPHONE OS VERSION MAX ALLOWED  lt  90000 -  NSUInteger supportedInterfaceOrientations  else -  UIInterfaceOrientationMask supportedInterfaceOrientations  endif        return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape      I hope help to somebody else

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Simply removing and reinstalling the app worked for me    Testing in the Simulator   Delete the app in the simulator  Quit and restart the simulator  Run the project again in Xcode        Testing on Device   Delete the app from the device  Run the project again in Xcode

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For some reason  I had to change the asset catalog location to  relative to project  for this to work     I had also deleted the app from my phone and reinstalled  but it was probably the  relative to project  that did it

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The problem with the accepted answer is that if you don t set the Launch Screen File  your application will be in upscaling mode on devices such as the iPhone 6  amp  6      blurry rendering   Below is what I did to have a complete working solution  I m targeting iOS 7 1  amp  using Xcode 8  on every device  truly  I was getting crazy about this upscaling problem   1  Prepare your  xcassets  To simplify it  I m using a vector  PDF file  It is very convenient and avoid creating multiple images for each resolution  1x  2x  3x      I also assume here you already created your xcassets    Add your launch screen image  or vector file  to your project Go to your  xcassets and create a New Image Set  In the Attributes window of the Image  select Scales -  Single Scale Drag and drop the vector file in the Image Set      2  Create your Launch Screen file    3  Add your image to your Launch Screen file   Add an Image View object to your Launch Screen file  delete the labels that were automatically created   This image view should refer to the previous  xcassets Image Set  You can refer it from the Name attribute  At this stage  you should correctly see your launch screen image in your image view  Add constraints to this image view to keep aspect ratio depending on the screen resolution      4  Add your Launch Screen file to your target  Fianlly  in your Target General properties  refer the Launch Screen file    Start your app  and your splash screen should be displayed  Try also on iPhone6  amp  iPhone6   and your application should be correctly displayed without any upscaling  the Launch Screen file aims to do this

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For the people who are using the Asset Catalog s Launch Image  as I learned this the hardest way  I had this scenario where I was first given a jpg file then I asked them convert it to PNG   I trusted them enough that I scoured the internet first as to why the launch image wasn t showing and did every solution to no avail  then I tried putting back the old launch image and was working fine  it was there that I thought what I have is not a proper PNG file   TL DR   Make sure that you are actually using a proper PNG file  not a file with a renamed extension

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I had the same issue after I started using Xcode 6 1 and changed my launcher images  I had all images in an Asset Catalog  I would get only a black screen instead of the expected static image  After trying so many things  I realised the problem was that the Asset Catalog had the Project  Target Membership  ticked-off in its FileInspector view  Ticking it to ON did the magic and the image started to appear on App launch

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The LaunchScreen xib and the info value Launch screen interface file base name are from my experience both placeholders that are created when the project is created  If you would like to use the Images xcassets exclusively for your launch screens  delete both the LaunchScreen xib and the info plist item   If you provide the info plist setting you app will use the xib and not your Images xcassets

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This is worked for me  Click LaunchScreen storyboard then in the right panel you can select  Is Initial View Controller  check box    LaunchScreen storyboard -  Is Initial View Controller

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If you have changed your launch image from a previous image  and observe the following    devices simulators where the app was previously installed  still show the previous image and refuse to show the new one  uninstalling and reinstalling the app doesn t help  devices simulators where the app was not previously installed  show the new launch image   It is likely because of the caching of launch image done by iOS  Rebooting the device should solve the problem

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There is a file  LaunchScreen xib  automatically added to your project Deleting this will shift xCode to using your Default images in Images xcassets  edited to add go to App Icons and Launch Images Launch Screen File should be blank emtpy

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For me  it works when I remove LaunchScreen xib and change it to a storyboard file LaunchScreen storyboard

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I tried opening a new project  and moving through the same steps you did to set a launch screen     By default  the  xib was set as  Launch Screen File   and the white screen with a label did show for half a second in the simulator   I then a  Launch Images Source  and set it to the Images xcassets which generated with the background images I added to the project    all good so far   Rerun the simulator and the launch images don t show     After deleting the specified  Launch Screen File  and a clean  Product -  Clean  from the top menu  the launch images finally show up   Maybe that will help

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Make sure your images are accurate size according to Apple guidelines  Make sure  You will select only one option   either launch screen file or Launch Image Source  You can find these two options in Project build settings -  General   My suggestion to you is to select Launch Image Source as Image Assets  Create splash image assets there in Image assests folder   Reference image for right configuration

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