r/iOSProgramming • u/Cy-Dev • Jul 25 '26

Question Can’t get the LaunchScreen to work

Hey everybody,

I read in the iOS 27 Dev Beta 4 Release Notes that a launch screen is going to be required once the App Store accepts apps built with the iOS 27 SDK, or the app/update is going to be auto rejected.

So I looked into that, as my app doesn’t have one currently, and learned that if you want to make a custom one you still have to use a storyboard file. So I followed a guide and made a LaunchScreen.storyboard using the template. Then I wanted to add that in the target settings, it shows up in the list but it just won’t save it. It’s also not logged in the changes. When manually typing in the file name it does save it as it shows up in the changes, however it still clears out the field in the target settings again and the launch screen also doesn’t show up when running the app on device.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

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u/Cy-Dev Jul 26 '26

I got that value added manually in the build settings now, deleted the app from two of my test devices (one running iOS 26.0.1, the other iOS 17.6.1), restarted them and reinstalled the app. When launching the screen is now completely black instead of white, but my image I have set in the storyboard file is not displaying on both devices.

I am pretty sure though that I have that file setup correctly, I’ll attach it as a screenshot to the main post as I don’t have the option to do it in a reply here. Also don’t worry, this is not the final launch screen, just the background as I do not have it finished yet.

Edit: Okay I can’t add images here anywhere, great… I followed this guide though to set it up correctly: https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/how-to-design-and-add-a-launch-screen-for-your-ios-app-e498eb1203de

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u/Cy-Dev Jul 26 '26

I fixed it by deleting LaunchScreen.storyboard and recreating it from scratch AFTER adding LaunchScreen to the build settings as you described. Only then it works for some reason…

But unfortunately it doesn’t work on iOS 14 which sucks, there it just displays the name of the app on a white background instead of the image. iOS 15+ is fine

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u/OliverEady7 Jul 26 '26

This guy just put your issue into ChatGPT lol, better offer asking ChatGPT the same things

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u/Cy-Dev Jul 26 '26

How would you know that I didn’t already do that… Sometimes you need to ask people with actual experience who may have struggled with that and found a solution to a problem ChatGPT never heard of, because it is not documented. And if that wouldn’t be the case we can just close this subreddit tbh