iPhone simulator just shows blank grey screen? - iphone

I'm trying to learn iOS development, and have run into a problem that has stopped any and all progress. Whenever I build and run my code on the simulator, I just get a blank grey screen! I can't find any help on the subject, so I turn to you wonderful people here. I have no idea what's wrong. Even when I start a new blank project and build/run it, I get a blank grey screen. It seems like something is wrong in xcode that's preventing my MainWindow.xib file to be used.
Like I said, I'm just learning, so I don't have much experience as to how this all works.


Try this: with iOS Simulator active, select Window->Scale->50%. This worked for me after frustrating hours and hours of restarting the computer, reinstalling Xcode, and searching the Web. Turned out there was nothing wrong with iOS Simulator, just that the default Scale of 100% hid all the icons. OS X 10.9.3, Xcode 5.1.1, iOS Simulator 7.1.


Some of the sample project templates (e.g. 'view based application') don't show anything interesting - only a grey screen (bceause it's up to you to actually add something to the view). But if you create a new "Navigation based application" sample project, you'll see a blue nav bar and an empty table in your app.

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ios11 iphone app icon is missing on iPad

I have an iPhone only app but it works in compatibility mode in the iPad too(no surprises).
but after I updated the app for the ios11, app icon on the iPad is missing.
here is what I've tried;
- launch on the iPhone simulator, icon appears
- launch on the iPad simulator, icon is missing
change the device options from "iphone" to "universal", run the iPad simulator, icon appears but app needs a new iPad ui.
change back to "iPhone" and the app icon is missing again in iPad. really confusing.
I tried to create a new project and make the same changes but never able to make the icon missing again.
I'm using cocoa pods if that makes any sense.
I think I'm missing a settings or something else, I'm really trying to find it, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I've found the problem.
In info.plist, there was an extra or problematic entry.
- CFBundleIcons~ipad
Remove this line and iPad icons appear normally.

This problem has been reported by many users over the past 6 months (including desperate pleas to Apple to fix this bug), yet no one's reported the following solution.
I'm using Xcode 9.2, and I noticed today that my iPad/iPhone's application will run fine on my iPad (iOS v11.2.1) but the icon is missing.
This is a legacy app, about 2-3 years old, and the cause seems to be my Appicon file. When I view this file, I see this:
Previously, this resource was sufficient to provide the app icon for both the iPad and iPhone, but apparently, not anymore.
I went into my Images.xcassets file, right-clicked, and selected "App Icons & Launch Images\New IOS App Icon" and now have a look at the extra icon possibilities:
Notice the extra icons for iPads.
Sure enough, I created yet more .png files, with resolutions matching the desired iPad resolutions settings, and now, when I build my app and run it on the iPad, it does show the correct icon.
Oh, and I also needed to go into my project's build settings, select the "General" tab, and change the "App Icons Source" to the name of my new image set, "AppIconNew".
Et voila. No messing around with Cocoapods, no need to change the .plist file (mine didn't have that "CFBundleIcons~ipad" entry anyway), I just needed to create a new image set.
Okay, time to go back to my modern, cosy world of using Visual Studio again now.
(Happy sigh..)

I've had a few legacy apps that did have the CFBundleIcons~ipad in the Info.plist, so I check that first. However, I've also had instances where it was just missing the asset as #Mike Gledhill mentioned. If this is the case, you don't have to go through adding a new AppIcon set. Just check the iPad box in the Attributes Inspector for the current AppIcon assets and the iPad sizes will show in the current set. Then just add the correct assets for each size requirement.

I didn't have CFBundleIcons~ipad entry in my Info.plist file as per "karpat"s answer. So I moved to "Mike Gledhill"s answer, then after observing my all the icons from Image assests, I found that for particular icon which was invisible only on iPad, the device type set was iPhone.
I just changed device type by right cling on image set to Universal :
This did work for me.

Images on Launch Screen doesn't appear on device

I'm building an iOS app in xcode 7. I have the standart launch screen that was autogenerated with the project, with an image view in it. I has been working fine for a while, but suddenly when I run the app, the image appears in completely black. See screen show of problem:
This only happens when I run the app on my device (iPhone 6), when I run the app on the simulator, the launche screen is as it is suppose to.
The problem occured after i edited som constraints in my storyboard, complete unrelated.
The image that is loaded is added to the project as a regular file, not in xcassets.
When i put a new, identical, image into the project the same way as the old image, it fixes the problem, but only for a couple of hours, then it happends again.
Any suggestions? I'm puzzled.!

Experienced this problem again 1.5 years after question was asked.
I was able to solve the problem by rebooting the iPhone :S
I'm using the same iPhone 6 as when the question was asked, now on Xcode 8.3.1

Corona SDK, build for iOS device works not correctly

I build my Corona app for iPhone Simulator, and it running well. But if I installed my app on my device(iPad), and i have many issues(no scrollview and tabbar working) buttons is visible only.
How to solve the problem?

Look at what happens when you run it in the iPad simulator- Do you get any errors in the console if you check it while running the app on your iPad? If so this could shed some light on the issue. One possibility is a corrupted image, or an incorrect image format.
If only the buttons are visible it sounds like you app has an error that is preventing all of the display objects from loading. (Just based on the fact you mention your buttons display but nothing else.)

iPhone simulator shows blank white screen after application launch

I am new to iPhone application development, and I am building a new calculator just to see how everything works.
I completed my code, but when I run the application, it does not show anything on the simulator.
I have created a number pad, but the screen is blank (white) after the application launches.
Can anyone give me a pointer, please?
I am using Xcode 4.2 and deployment target is 5.0

If you are using empty template for your project them make sure that you are correctly adding your view to window in appdelegate file in function named applicationDidFinishLaunching.
It can also happen when you target for iphone and using xid file related to ipad or another way.
hope it will help you and sorry for my bad english

White blank screen in iPhone simulator and Black blank screen when loaded into iPhone

When I run my app on the simulator, every time a white blank screen would be generated. but after I black iPhone button on the bottom to exit the app, the views will then be visible after you re-enter the app. then the app run as usual.
But the situation is different when I load it into my iPhone.
Only BLACK blank screen can be seen into the app. after I exit the app and re-enter it, still nothing can be seen, and the app would automatically exit, too.
I dunno why it would be like that as simulator just simulate the real iPhone.
Here is some information:
iOS version of my iPhone: iOS 5
XCode version: XCode 4.2
Hope someone can help me. Thanks a lot.

Make sure that your Base SDK is as high or higher than your current version. Change it in your target settings and your project settings. Also change your compiler to Apple LLVM and your debugger (under edit scheme) to LLDB.