iOS 9 Xcode 7 - Application appears with black bar

Question

Installed the app on iPhone 6 iOS9 and here is what happened. Notice black bars on top and bottom. It works just fine on iOS8. How I can fix it?

I've tried building with Xcode 6.4 & 7. Same result.

(iPhone 5 used to run iPhone 4 apps like this)

Answer 1

Go to the asset catalog and create a new iOS launch Image. then in Target>General>App Icons and Launch Images>Launch Image Source you will see automatically the new Launch Image created in the assets catalog.

Answer 2

I'm using xcode 7.2 . At first, I created a LaunchScreen.storyboard file, as Potassium Permanganate suggested, and it worked! However, I didn't want a launch screen, so I tried setting Main.storyboard as Launch Screen File and it did the trick!

Answer 3

Did you migrate your app from an earlier version of Xcode? If so then Xcode is now making an assumption about your screen size and you need a way of indicating the actual screen size at run time.

There are two ways:

a) If you use a launch screen.

You are missing a LaunchScreen.storyboard file. Create a LaunchScreen.storyboard file and add it to your project.

b) If you don't use a launch screen.

Go to your Target's settings and choose General, then App Icons and Launch Images. Now set "Launch Screen File" to your "main.storyboard" (or another storyboard if appropriate)

Answer 4

Don't Do anything that are described in earlier answers...

To show view Controller follow the following single step

Step 1 : Add the splash Screen for iPhone and iPad.

After this this error will not come again.

Answer 5

When you migrate your app from earlier version of xCode to xCode 6 or xCode 7, you will face this issue.

For iOS 7 and earlier, developers need to provide separate launch images for all screen sizes, resolutions and orientations their app supported.

In Xcode 6 or later, there is another option. You can specify a storyboard whose initial view controller will then be used as the app’s launch screen. Use below steps:

• Create a blank storyboard file named LaunchScreen.storyboard.

• Go to your target settings and, on the "General" tab, select the storyboard as your Launch Screen File in "App Icons and Launch Images" section. Xcode will add a corresponding UILaunchStoryboardName key to your app’s Info.plist. When this key is present, Xcode will prioritize it over any launch images you might have set.

• Add some subviews to newly created storyboard's view and position them with constraints. When you launch the app on a device, the OS should use the scene as the launch screen.

Delete the older app from simulator and clean the project.

Cheers :-)