Not able to see localized images in iPhone simulator - ios

I have an existing working iPhone project inside XCode 4.2. I localized an image (which is used on a button) and I always see the old version of it inside the iPhone simulator. Where does it find that old version?
What I've done:
Window -> Organizer -> Project -> Delete Derived Data
Product -> Clean
Inside the IPhone simulator, I tried resetting it.
I tried deleting the project and recreating it (from SVN)
I deleted everything in Library->Developer->Xcode, Library->Delveoper->Application Support->iPhone simulator, Library->Developer->Application->Interface Builder 3.0
And I still see the old version... Is it compiled somewhere inside the interface builder with the button or something like that? Weird... really weird.
Note: I'm able to localize an image button if I add a new image, but using old existing image is always showing me the old version.

Solution :
My project contained images like ImageName#2x.png (for IPad I guess).
By also localizing those + clean + build + reset IPhone Sim settings, it worked. Go figure.
Also, when I add another language for the #2x images, I have to manually add the image in the other xx.lproj (where XX is the language code) with the finder because somehow XCode doesn't it.

Delete the App in iPhone Simulator (same way you would delete it on real iPhone) and try it again.

I have encountered a similar problem to this where the XIB file would not accept modifications. I eventually fixed by renaming the XIB file and then changes were accepted. Worth a try in your case I think.

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Xcode 8 storyboard error

Anyone can help me something goes wrong with me, I cant see my storyboard View, subview, imageview. All became white and its show error like on storyboard file
"An internal error occurred. Editing functionality may be limited."
I have open my project in xcode 8 and 8.1 beta latest xcode but both have same issue.
Main thing is that this is happening with all project not just one.
For example i am opening new project that is open in xcode 8 and i cant see that storeyboad file. Old project is working fine which are not open in xocde 8 i can see that project and open in xcode 7.3.1. but if i open that in xcode 8 and convert to xcode 8 compatible and this issue happen.
I have the same problem with Xcode.
I resolved it by disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection):
Press Command-R when start hold til logo and loading status appear
Open terminal
In terminal print: csrutil disable
Restart system
I have also faced this issue and resolve it by only follow these steps:-
Go to Xcode -> Preferences
Select Locations Tab
Click on Derived Data arrow.
Trash Derived Data Folder.
Restart System
Automatic Fixed this issue.
May this help you.
They inserted autolayout a few versions ago, exactly for this foreseeable reason. It's highly discouraged to use storyboards without autolayout, if you want to work with size classes, different devices with different screen resolutions, orientations, ecc.
My suggestion is revert the project to previous commit, reopen it with xcode7, add the needed constraint and reopen with xcode8 (you will still have problems, because of the many bugs of the new storyboard but they are mostly fixable).
Another option to keep working with in xcode8 it is to use a "freeform" simulated size from the Size inspector of the view controller and adapt the sizes to the old viewcontroller dimensions, but you will have to manage compatibility with all devices sizes programmatically, as i hope it is already being done. It doesn't anyway guarantee that everything works
There are some bugs in storyboard of xcode 8 so if you are not using autolayout then you should use xcode 7. now as you said in question that you are getting problem to open storyboard in older xcode (i.e. 7.x) that because once you open project in xcode 8 then it's change some configuration of storyboard which are not compatible with older xcodes.
So now for solution Open your project in xcode 8 -> open storyboard -> File inspector -> Under Interface builder document -> select xcode 7.x instead of latest xcode 8 from Open in
It will show popup something like Saving for Xcode 7.x will close your document and data for Xcode 8.0 features will be removed. Click Save and close the xcode 8 and open project in your older xcode (7.x) and you will able to open storyboard as it was before!!!
You can refer below screenshot,
Hopefully Apple will fix issue related storyboard and in newer version of xcode 8 you will able to switch project without messing up your UI! But right now there should be a workaround as i mentioned above! Try it!!
for me I just make all the views in storyboard size to inferred
^^"

UIImageView missing images in Launch Screen on device

I have an app that supports iOS8 and later, built in Xcode 7 and I am using a XIB for a Launch Screen (I do not have launch images). The view contains a single UILabel with the app version, and 2 UIImageViews with images that are both present in Images.xcassets: A logo and a splash image.
The UILabel and the logo image appear correctly when I launch the application, but the splash image does not if I run the app on an iPad Air 2 with iOS9. I have tested on an Air and a Mini running iOS8, and iOS9 simulators for iPad 2, iPad Air, and iPad Air 2 and the image appears correctly in all of those.
I ran some basic troubleshooting to see if I could figure out what is going on but I haven't been able to solve it and the only difference I can see between the image that's working and the one that's failing is when I added it to the assets...
Here's a rundown of what I know:
The UIImageView for the splash image is in the correct place, at the correct size. I can tell this because I set its background color to green just to make sure. The view is there, but the image does not appear. So I'm assuming that the view is not to blame.
Setting the UIImageView for the splash image to also use the logo image makes the logo image appear in the correct place for the view. This also leads me to assume that the view is not to blame.
The UIImage that I am using in the splash image view is used elsewhere in the app and appears fine in those other views (the logo image is also used elsewhere in the app and appears fine). So I'm assuming that the image is valid and having it appear in other views is not a problem.
I've confirmed that the settings of the UIImages for the logo and splash in the xcassets file are the same. They are set to Universal, Any width and height, multiple scale factors, rendered as default. There is one difference - the logo has 1x, 2x and 3x scales while the splash image only has 1x and 2x, but I have also tried using UIImages with only 1x, and 1x and 2x values in the UIView and they work (if they were added to the project some time ago).
Adding another image of a different size or format (PNG and JPG) to my xcassets and using that UIImage in the UIImageView for the splash image also fails to display.
Adding another UIImageView to the XIB file and allocating it a UIImage that was already in the xcassets works, the image appears in the loading screen.
Copying and renaming the image files used for the logo and adding them to the project then using that UIImage in the splash view also fails to display.
I have tried cleaning the project, restarting the development machine, and deleting the app from the Air 2 and reinstalling it just in case that was a problem.
These last three steps lead me to believe that there's some issue with images added after a certain point in the project file's lifetime. While I updated to Xcode 7 yesterday, the splash image was originally added in Xcode 6, but the logo image (also added in Xcode 6) was added some months before.
I've looked over the json files for the logo image and splash image and they appear to have the same format. I've also trawled through the pbxproj file looking for differences and I can't see any.
So I was wondering if anyone had any idea why the launch screen might not display these new images I'm adding on the Air 2 specifically? Other questions I've been reading through relating to images not appearing all seem to relate either to Launch Images, or to images in XIB files that have associated classes, neither of which seems relevant here.
Turn it off and then on again.
Seriously, restart the device — that’s what fixed it for me.
Here’s what didn’t work:
Cleaning DerivedData.
Cleaning the project.
Uninstalling the app from the device.
Restarting Xcode.
Restarting the computer.
Older observations:
Just like the others, it:
Works fine in the Simulator
Used to work on the devices (iPhone 5S, iPad Air)
No code changes (verified via git reset --hard HEAD), yet stopped working.
What I remember triggering the first build where it stopped working was unplugging the iPhone while it was runnning. (Not sure if it’s related.)
However, the git reset not fixing it (combined with all the clean steps not working) tells me it this must be getting cached somewhere else. Quite possibly in one of the .gitignored files? (I’m using Git ignore file for Xcode projects)
One workaround that worked for one UIImageView (in the UIView that has three) but not for the others was putting the image into an .xcassets file. Reverting to the plain image file did not undo the fix. (Really feels like a caching error.)
UPDATE: See top — restarting the device is what fixed it. I get the feeling the wrong bitmap data is being cached on the device itself.
Radar: http://openradar.appspot.com/23534818
"The solution for me was simply to make sure that the "Clears Graphics Context" box is unchecked for the UIImageView in the storyboard. Just changing this fixed it for me."
No other solutions worked for me.
Got it from apple developer forum
I had exactly the same issue on an iPhone 6.
The very strange fact is that I was able to use another image from my images.xcassets which had the same size, compression, color space ...
I'm not able to find why it doesn't work but I found a solution :
Simply put your file outside your images.xcassets and use its full name (with extension) in Interface Builder
Hope this help !
The following sequence of operations fixed the issue for me on Xcode 7.3.1 and iOS 9.3.4:
Clean Your Build (⌘+⇧+K)
Close Xcode
Hard Reset iOS Device (Power + Home Button reboot)
Relaunch Xcode - let indexing finish and build on device once it is ready.
Many other answers suggest rebooting devices and / or rebuilding and / or reinstalling is the solution.
While these answers work for some of us, the reason these work is because the app is forced to "retake" or "rebuild" cached snapshots.
Cached snapshots are used by apps to present images before supporting data is loaded into memory, including the asset catalogue that contains storyboard images.
This SO answer by #jaga provides the solution, but not the reason, as to why UIImageViews are missing in the Launch Screen on device (but not in the simulator).
Background
Recently I attempted to use a custom font in my "Launch Screen.storyboard" file.
The reason I could not became clear after reading this SO answer by #TimCamber, which prompted me to do a little more research and testing.
The reason that a custom font is not included in my Launch Screen Storyboard file is the same reason an image within an asset catalogue is not included...
The app prepares portrait & landscape snapshots of the app's Launch Screen from your Launch Screen Storyboard file and (currently) saves it in your app bundle here:
/Library/Caches/Snapshots/<<app_bundle>>/ and
/Library/Caches/Snapshots/<<app_bundle>>/downscaled/.
This process is complete before any supporting files are loaded, including any custom fonts and the asset catalogue.
Solution
As mentioned above by following #jaga's solution, literally all that is required is to:
(old school) add an image file (.PNG) to your app's bundle (as you can see from the screenshot below I added the image file under the Supporting Files subdirectory in an Images subdirectory), and
reference that image in your UIImageView object in the Launch
Screen Storyboard file...
I was seeing the same problem. Rebooting the device (iPhone 6) and rebuilding the app to the device is the only thing that fixed it. I tried many other tips and suggestions but nothing else worked. Only reboot + rebuild helped.
My solution #iOS 11.x:
Use .jpg image instead of .png. I think image file size matters;
(Optionally) Put image file in project directory rather than .xcassets;
I had the same for app installed from TestFlight.
Delete app -> then restart iPhone -> then reinstall app works for me.
Just reinstall app or just restarting device didn't help.
What worked for me was to select Reset Content and Settings... from the Simulator menu
I was having the same problem, but restarting the device didn't help. What worked for me was deleting the UIImageView from my launch storyboard and adding a new one.
Have you tried turning the device off and on again? Do it.
Bring images out of Image.xcassets and add them again to project. It worked for me.
Remove app from mobile and then restart mobile and install app again. now the issues will be solved
I also had this exact problem in Xcode 7 with iPad and iPhone devices. Although it makes no sense, I was able to get around it most of the time by setting not only the Image but also the Highlighted image in the image view to the same image in my images.xcassets.
I use the iPhone 5s device, also meet this problem.
I fix it by :
Remove Drive Data
Clean the project
Restart Xcode
Remove the project from my device
Restart the 5s.
I think it's something wrong of Xcode to use memory, system may be allocate a little memory for Xcode cause Xcode drawing the lunch image failed (On my computer , Xcode have runned for several weeks without close)
it's worked for me.
First in xcode clean de project.
If you use the simulator, delete app and relaunch.
If you use a device, delete app and restart the device.
I think launchscreen only support image in Assets.xcassets.
Restarting Xcode did it for me.
What did not do it:
Clean build folder
Restart device or simulator (image wasn't visible on either)
Select the ImageView and then remove the image extension (.png or .jpg) in the attributes inspector tab > Image view > Image > Image Name.
On launchscreen.storyboard the image will not appear but it will be there in device. This worked for me.
It seemed a bug of iOS. Like sometimes the system animation disappeared.
Now I just reboot the iPhone and it is worked for me.
In my case I it was the image name.
I added an image named Default-568h#2x.png to LaunchScreen.xib - one of my old launch screens just for testing purposes. I was building on the iPhone X Simulator, the image didn't show up.
Changing the name to something neutral (MyImage.png) solved the issue.
It seems that the #2x was part of the problem as well as the -568h.
Which makes some sense on a -812h#3x device.
I have the same issue with imageView a launch screen storyboard. I removed reference of picture from project, I renamed my image and added it again to project. All works perfectly.
Also can 1. delete project image 2. change image name 3. add file image to project
It worked for me.
I had this problem in iOS 10 on an iPhone 6 and also in the Simulator. My image was in a folder and that seemed to be the issue. I removed the image from the folder in Xcode and put it in the project's base directory which solved the problem.
I experience the same. I change image resolution from 300 pixels/inch, change it to 72. It works for me.
Next helped to me:
change "Launch Screen File" to another xib
run the app
change xib back
Also very important: check that your is xib not opened in another tab, that can cause it as well!
I found a simple but radical solution that worked for me :
1 - Delete the file : LaunchScreen.storyboard and move it to trash.
2 - Product -> Clean
3 - Create a new launch screen file named : LaunchScreen.storyboard and put your images in it
4 - Save and build
That worked for me after trying complex methods for hours... It seems that my LaunchScreen.storyboard was write-locked and couldn't be saved or a weird caching process was blocking it.
This is too important
Must be empty! Launch Screen File
Image name is the problem.
Rename the image name used inside the Launch screen storyboard.
Make sure not to use any character other than alphanumeric ( don't use "_-&#")
Worked for me like a charm..
SOLVED!
The only thing that worked for me was deleting the ViewController from LaunchScreen.storyboard and create a new ViewController set to
Is Initial View Controller
Simple as that :)

My iPhone App won't run with letterboxes in the new iPhone 5 simulator. How do I get it to letterbox?

I just downloaded the new version of Xcode and ran the app I've been developing. For some reason, it didn't letterbox it. I want to add in the letterboxing effect until I get the app ready for the new screen.
Thanks!
All glory to #Hemang, this answer is from his comment above, and I'll gladly delete this answer in deference to his.
I had the exact problem. Needed to do both of:
Reset the Simulator: from the menu, iOS Simulator > Reset Content and Settings... .
Clean your Xcode project (⇧⌘K). Personally, I like to clean the entire† derived data directory (⌥⇧⌘K).
† AKA "nuke the entire site from orbit...".
In the simulator, remove your development app. This will remove any leftovers. Now run again, without the new launch image.
I think the easiest and quickest way to switch to letter boxed is simply to:
remove the app from the device
Uncheck the Default-568h#2x.png Target Dependency in the File Inspector tab
Clean & Rebuild the app
If you want to switch back to the full 4inch form factor there's no need to delete the app again, just recheck the Target Dependency box for Default-568h#2x.png.
It's only when switching back to letter boxed that you have to remove the app from the device, because when you simply remove the target and not the app, the Default-568h#2x.png file remains on the device.
I'm building on the device, rather than the simulator, so in my opinion this would be much easier.
I had the same problem. I added the Default-568h#2x.png image to see how my app would look. It looked terrible. So I deleted the file and the app was no longer letterboxed.
To fix it, reset your simulator (note, you'll lose anything else on the simulator)
Then in XCode, Clean, then Build
On you simulator, go to
Hardware --> Device --> iPhone (Retina 4-inch)
That should show your app with the letter box

Ios Launch Image wont delete

Hi I have created an App but changed the Default.png image halfway through now it only loads the old one but in the summary page in xcode it shows the new image as being the default but in the simulator it loads the old image and on my iphone it doesnt load anything. it also wont let me delete it and re add it it still uses the old image or no image.
I have tried
cleaning the project
deleting it off the phone and simulator
its still the same
Make sure that you have deleted any other images titled "default.png" in the Project Navigator. To do so just right-click on the image and hit delete. If it isn't allowing you to delete it, rename it to something else besides "default.png". Hope you can solve your problem!
Have you tried renaming the image to be something other that Default.png? You can see details on how to do that here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/App-RelatedResources/App-RelatedResources.html
Have you tried checking the plist in xcode under icons? With me it happened to have 6 icons listed.
It also helps to do a reset contents and settings on the simulator.

Iphone Splash Screen never goes away

I inserted a splash screen using default.png - set to one of the pictures on the desktop and now i am trying to use a view and open it that way however the last splash screen keeps appearing. Ive deleted all the code written for it and even the image. Not just removed reference but also deleted. I dont know where xcode finds the image to display it but the old image keeps appearing so i need to change it. I restarted xcode cleaned built no change. Let me know if im missing something.
In the project navigator, click on the application target. Click on the application target under Targets. Click on the Summary tab and look at the section "iPhone / iPod Deployment Info." There you can see the launch image. You can right-click to see the file being used in the Finder or you can delete it.
Update: Using XCode 4.1, I was seeing problem even after deleting it using above approach. I had to both clean the build and delete the app from device/simulator before rerunning it.

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