UIPicker Not Showing Up - ios

I have a UIPickerView that I made programmatically but everything I made in interface builder and the picker wont show up once I run the app. It worked before I made the background in IB (which is a UIImage).Everything else shows up.
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews(viewDidLoad)
{
[self.view bringSubviewToFront:picker1];
[self.view sendSubviewToBack:backgroundImage];
[backgroundImage addSubview:picker1];
}
I've tried all these.My brain is dead and I really just need help. Why wont my UIPickerView show up. All the needed data is there it worked before I put a background on it.Can anything be done ?

Make sure that your data delegates is connected to the view. You can do this by going to the storyboard and clicking the Files owner and connecting the referencing outlets to the view.

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viewWillDisappear
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I still don't know why this alignment change when the view will disappear.
It seems working for now.
I hope it will help someone else.

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It's hard to tell even from the code you posted why this is happening, The best guess will be that somewhere in the next lines of code you set it back to visible = YES mistakably. I would check if there is a method that shows the button that is called before it is needed.
BUT
If the initial state is hidden for your buttons. why don't you simply hide them on IB interface?
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Hopefully I save someone an hour or two of needless headaches.
P.S. Thanks for the speedy comment !

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