How to create a launch screen in XCode

Before continuing we strongly recommend reading our best practices guide on creating launch (splash) screens.

In the Project Settings, select the app target and make sure that the Launch Screen File has been set to LaunchScreen.storyboard or the relevant storyboard file.

Follow the tutorials below to learn how to add image view components with images to the launch screen storyboard.

Make sure that you add the images as local files instead of xcassets. This will aid previewing updates without having to restart the device.

Follow the tutorials below to learn how to constrain the image views. Make sure that you constrain the background image view to the edges of the view, and not the safe area.

Run the app on the device.

We recommend setting a breakpoint in the AppDelegate of the app so that the app stops at the launch screen, allowing you to confirm that the changes went through.

Delete the app and restart your device. Then in XCode, clean the project and reinstall the app.

It sounds like your images are too big. Try:

• Reducing the image file sizes to less than 0.5MB for each image.
• If you are not already, use local files instead of xcassets.
• Delete the app and restart your device. Then in XCode, clean the project and reinstall the app.