How do I get rid of sticky iPad splash screens?

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Initially I developed my app as Universal. Then I designed splash screens separately for iPad. Recently I decided to deploy my app in iPhone device mode only. My app has no fancy graphics and it just looks well and works perfect on iPad either in 1x or 2x mode.

To do so I set Devices to iPhone at TARGET/Summary/IOS Application Target pane. I dragged new splash images I created for iPhone into Launch images placeholders, one for non-Retina and one for Retina displays.

However when I launch my iPhone app on the iPad, either through debugger or stand alone, the old iPad splash screens I no longer use come up. They look bad because the image centre appears to be moved down-right as they were originally created for iPad.

I went back to XCode and momentarily changed the Device type to Universal or iPad. I deleted the images both from Launch images placeholders and physically from the file system.

Unfortunately the iPad splash images I created earlier still come back when I build my app in iPhone device mode and deploy it on my iPad. How can I get rid of them once and for all and get the app use the iPhone launch images I created and setup recently?

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2 Answers

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If you deleted the images from the disk, Clean all targets (in Xcode Product->Clean) and rebuild. There should be no way after doing this that the old image will appear (if it does it means it was not deleted properly from your project).

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  1. Clean your project (Command+Shift+Option+K)
  2. Close Xcode, go to ~/yourCurrentUser/.Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData Find the folder for your project, and delete it.
  3. Delete the app in your simulator or test device.
  4. Now build and run the app, and that must work; if not, delete the final images once more, and repeat the above steps.

Don't forget to check your info.plist file for Icon Files key. Sometiems splash screen images get added to the Icon Files key for no clear reason! You must remove them from there.