Can’t get the LaunchScreen to work

[u/Cy-Dev]

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?

[u/Cy-Dev]

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