Without modifying any code in a new Xcode 6.0 Single View project targeting iPhones running iOS 7.1, the result on my testing iPod Touch 5th gen device shows a shifted version of what's in Interface Builder. It appears the shift is downward. I've already tried turning off Auto Layout and Size Classes, and resetting all UIView coordinates to (0,0), but still the battery symbol and upper bar is too far down! Please see pictures below for Interface Builder screenshot, and device screenshot. The question is how can I keep what I see in Interface Builder, and stop the iPod from shifting down the entire UIViewController? Thanks!
UPDATE: In the end, I had to go into project build settings, click on the app under Targets, and change Launch Images Sources to a new folder it titled "LaunchImage-2" and delete the Launch Screen File field, which was set to Launch Images.
If you don't add the Default-568h#2x.png
then xcode build the project of size 3.5 inch and shows black patch at the bottom.
So you have to compulsory add the image with name Default-568h#2x.png of size 640 x 1136
If you use an empty Asset Catalog for your Launch Images, the iPhone 5's screen size is supported (without having to include any image files at all).
It seems that you need to add the default or launch images into the project. Your project should be using image assets, so there you will see launch images and you need to supply images of appropriate sizes, preferably for all iPhone screen sizes.
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Running my App in the iPhone X Simulator (GM Seed) I am noticing two strange effects:
the App does not use the full screen space (top and bottom area is black)
a strange white bar beneath the title bar
Does anybody know what is happening here and how to resolve this? I can't find any new settings in Interface Builder.
When using launch images (instead of the much easier Launch screen file), you need to provide the properly sized launch image for each device size you wish to support. Once you add the additional launch image, your app should take advantage of the new screen size.
The new iPhone X requires a launch image sized at 1125px × 2436px which is a 3x image for 375pt × 812pt.
Of course if you switch over to using a Launch screen file instead of individual launch images, your app will automatically adapt to all device sizes without any additional work.
I have figured out this issues in iPhone X. Launch image size (1125*2436px)
Please flow this below steps.
1.i)Choose your project name in Xcode.
ii)Select your project target
iii)Then select Launch images source
You can get Migrate popup
i) Choose Assets
ii)Select Migrate
After that select your Assets.xcassets in your project
Then select Launch image in assets
i)Then select attribute inspector
finally check your Launch image source. you can see set Launch image.
iPhone X needs different launch image sized 1125px x 2436px (375pt x 812pt #3x).
Check human interface guidelines for more details.
I have figured out how to fix (though I still don't understand why this happened only on iPhone X) LaunchScreen storyboard on iPhone X with seeing black top&bottom bars.
I have LaunchScreen storyboard with one UIImageView.
UIImageView's top&bottom has to be pinned to SuperView's top&bottom. NOT to SafeArea.
I fixed it by simply inserting some random text in the Lanch Screen File textfield. I dont even have a Launch Screen File... XCode is so buggy.
update
Although this fixes it in simulator (still very weird and unexpected) when uploading a binary to iTunes Connect it will fail due to not finding a LanchScreen file of name "random-name"
Just ran into this while trying to update an app I hadn't worked on in a while.
On Xcode 9.4, I was able to fix this by doing the following:
Add a launch screen by going to File -> New -> File... -> Launch Screen
Make sure the newly added launch screen storyboard is selected as the launch screen file under project settings.
If you already have a 1125px × 2436px launch image but the app is still not using the full screen check to make sure that your image is PNG.
if you removed LaunchScreen.storyboard; Choose your project, select your project target, General -> App Icons and Launch Images -> Launch Screen File: Select here Main.storyboard instead of LaunchScreen.storyboard
Just had this problem... When I selected the project & the correct target I had a blank for the 'launch screen file' under the app icons and launch screen images tab. I set it to the default LaunchScreen and the resizing issue I faced was taken care of.
You may check in project target launch screen file is not set to empty if it is empty it may cause problem.
Yes me too face that top spacing issue in iOS 15,
iOS 15 needs some new size of the Launch images
So you please check your all the launch screen images
Check your Attribute inspector is portrait for Launchscreen
Running my App in the iPhone X Simulator (GM Seed) I am noticing two strange effects:
the App does not use the full screen space (top and bottom area is black)
a strange white bar beneath the title bar
Does anybody know what is happening here and how to resolve this? I can't find any new settings in Interface Builder.
When using launch images (instead of the much easier Launch screen file), you need to provide the properly sized launch image for each device size you wish to support. Once you add the additional launch image, your app should take advantage of the new screen size.
The new iPhone X requires a launch image sized at 1125px × 2436px which is a 3x image for 375pt × 812pt.
Of course if you switch over to using a Launch screen file instead of individual launch images, your app will automatically adapt to all device sizes without any additional work.
I have figured out this issues in iPhone X. Launch image size (1125*2436px)
Please flow this below steps.
1.i)Choose your project name in Xcode.
ii)Select your project target
iii)Then select Launch images source
You can get Migrate popup
i) Choose Assets
ii)Select Migrate
After that select your Assets.xcassets in your project
Then select Launch image in assets
i)Then select attribute inspector
finally check your Launch image source. you can see set Launch image.
iPhone X needs different launch image sized 1125px x 2436px (375pt x 812pt #3x).
Check human interface guidelines for more details.
I have figured out how to fix (though I still don't understand why this happened only on iPhone X) LaunchScreen storyboard on iPhone X with seeing black top&bottom bars.
I have LaunchScreen storyboard with one UIImageView.
UIImageView's top&bottom has to be pinned to SuperView's top&bottom. NOT to SafeArea.
I fixed it by simply inserting some random text in the Lanch Screen File textfield. I dont even have a Launch Screen File... XCode is so buggy.
update
Although this fixes it in simulator (still very weird and unexpected) when uploading a binary to iTunes Connect it will fail due to not finding a LanchScreen file of name "random-name"
Just ran into this while trying to update an app I hadn't worked on in a while.
On Xcode 9.4, I was able to fix this by doing the following:
Add a launch screen by going to File -> New -> File... -> Launch Screen
Make sure the newly added launch screen storyboard is selected as the launch screen file under project settings.
If you already have a 1125px × 2436px launch image but the app is still not using the full screen check to make sure that your image is PNG.
if you removed LaunchScreen.storyboard; Choose your project, select your project target, General -> App Icons and Launch Images -> Launch Screen File: Select here Main.storyboard instead of LaunchScreen.storyboard
Just had this problem... When I selected the project & the correct target I had a blank for the 'launch screen file' under the app icons and launch screen images tab. I set it to the default LaunchScreen and the resizing issue I faced was taken care of.
You may check in project target launch screen file is not set to empty if it is empty it may cause problem.
Yes me too face that top spacing issue in iOS 15,
iOS 15 needs some new size of the Launch images
So you please check your all the launch screen images
Check your Attribute inspector is portrait for Launchscreen
Originally I was used Xcode 5 (w/ iphone5) to create an app, and it worked good on Xcode 6 w/ iOS7/8, even on iPhone 6 and 6+, the app will automatically scale up to fit the new screen sizes. Recently I have migrated to Xcode 7 and found there is a black bars on top and bottom, so I follow the suggestions to include main.storyboard as launch screen file, but now the app will not be able to scale it up automatically. I found a discussion about this: Xcode 6 resizes app automatically for iPhone 6 and 6 plus
So I try to create an single view app from scratch (using Xcode 7), delete the Launch Screen File and Launch Image Sources, put something objects on the view, and then remove Auto Layout and Size Classes from main.storyboard, but the app does not expand to fill the new device size for 6+.
Is it possible to do so?
Simple way is Use xcassets, you need to Create a Launch Image Set and add all images with proper size
Create an assets file. File->Create->Resource->Assets Catalog
Select the file, and add New iOS Launch Image
Add an image for each size. Make sure that the resolution of the file has the same aspect ratio as the required file, but the resolution that you want your app to have. E.g. even though it expects 1242 x 2208 for iPhone 5.5, enter 640x1136, and your app will be scaled down to 320x568 with retina autoscaling
You can find out the expected resolution to determine the aspect ratio in the properties inspector at the bottom of the right tab.
Finally, go to your target's configuration under General->App Icons and Launch Images and set your launch image source to LaunchImage (or whatever you called the image).
After upgrading my project from Swift 1.2/Xcode 6 to Swift 2.0/Xcode 7 all of my view controllers are rendering in 4:3 ratio (iPhone <=4). On iPhone <=5 then black space pads the top and the bottom of the screens.
Nothing has changed with the storyboard, and I am not dynamically sizing the views or using any other code to manipulate the view size.
What could be causing this issue, and how to resolve? I have tried a number of hacks including requesting full screen in the info.plist but cannot get it to work. It is frustrating since everything worked perfectly before Xcode7.
Below is a screenshot from an iPhone 6 showing the black space above and below the controller.
I resolved it by choosing 'Launch Screen File' as '*.storyboard' from Project Settings -> Targets -> App Icons and Launch Images.
It happens cause you do not have Launch images properly set.
Go to image assets
Hit + => "App Icons & Launch Images" => "New iOS Launch Image"
Now you created a special image asset for launch image. Open it (it has 'LaunchImage' default name) and specify images for all kinds of screen width/height ratios.
Also you have to look through project navigator and remove all files that probably exist as launch images (they are named 'Default.PNG', ''Default2X.PNG' or something).
Suggesting a workaround:
If it is an iPhone only app you can simply disable Size Classes from Storyboard: click on view -> enter file inspector (first tab of right panel) and uncheck "Use Size Classes".
I have a simple out of box app that doesn't use the entire screen when I deploy it on a iphone5s. By default it creates a LaunchScreen.xib. I have not edited this file on purpose.
Black Bars top and bottom
Other answers suggest to add a Default-568h#2x.png launch image, but I am not using a launch image, and I am not sure where to add these. I see a place for this in the Images.xcassets by clicking the + icon and selecting New Launch Image.
Do I need to add a New Launch Image to Images.xcassets? If so what is the point of having a LaunchScreen.xib?
Thanks!
To get the app to display full screen:
As suggested here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/15328339/4347877), you must include a Default-568h#2x.png launch image (for iOS 7 or earlier). Or if your deployment target is iOS 8 or higher, you have the option of using LaunchScreen.xib.
Why Use LaunchScreen.xib?
For iOS 7 and earlier, app developers had to provide separate launch images for all screen sizes, resolutions and orientations their app supported. For universal apps, up to seven images were required: retina and non-retina versions for 3.5-inch iPhones in portrait and for iPads in portrait and landscape; and another retina image for 4-inch iPhones (the iPhone requires no landscape version because apps are always launched from the portrait-only Home screen).
Creating these images is a nuisance. Xcode 6 comes to the rescue by allowing you to specify a storyboard whose initial view controller will then be used as the app’s launch screen.
If you want to add a launch image instead of using LaunchScreen.xib:
Click on your Images.xcassets folder, right-click in the left pane, and select "New Launch Image." Once you have the correct launch image sizes for all devices you would like to support, drag each image to its respective slot (e.g. "Retina HD 5.5" or "iPhone Portrait 2x"). Before Xcode 6 introduced LaunchScreen.xib I used to create my launch image size here: http://www.appiconsizes.com.
Okay the solution I found came from this question. The answer from James Nick Sears actually fixes my problem. This is after adding the Launch Images. It should be noted that launch images using the images.xcasset is the prefered way to do this pre iOS 8.0 and the only way to make your app compatible with devices running iOS 7 and earlier.
I suggest using TiCons to create the icons, the mapping took me longer then it should have to figure out. In xcode you can see the expected image size for each device by selecting the empty image box and looking in the attribute inspector window on right.
But the real kicker is clicking the 'use asset catalog' button on the "App Icons and Launch Images" of your apps settings under the General tab. Once you click Migrate you can select your LaunchImages from the selection menu that resides where the button used to be, after "Launch Images Source". Without doing this your app won't work correctly on pre iOS 8 devices.