title: Launch Screen AND Launch Images to Support iOS 7 And 8
body: <p>I am using Xcode 6 and Swift in my iPhone Application. The 'Deployment Target' is 7.1 as needs to support for iPhone 4 and above.</p>
  
  <p>I have selected 'iPhone' as devices under 'Deployment Info' (This is an iPhone App, not iPad)</p>
  
  <p>Even though this is an iPhone app, I know iPads also can install it as an iPhone app and use in there (OS provides the option by zooming the app in iPad)... </p>
  
  <p>Therefore I am testing with the simulator to see how it's going to look like on iPads too. All good but the launch image is <strong>not</strong> loading in <strong>iOS 7.1 iPad</strong> simulators, instead it shows the default black screen. But it works in iPad 8.0 simulators.</p>
  
  <p>I have defined a '<strong>Launch Screen</strong>' to work with iOS 8 and works perfect with iOS 8 iPad/iPhone simulators</p>
  
  <p>iOS 7 does NOT support for 'Launch Screen' and required to have 'Launch images' instead... Therefore following screenshot shows the launch images I have defined for different scenarios of iOS 7 devices (Different colors for test purposes). These launch images works great in all <strong>iPhone 7.1</strong> simulator but not with any <strong>iPad 7.1</strong> simulators.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZnUJu.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZnUJu.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I am not quite sure if it's a bug in iPad 7.1 simulator or if that's the real behaviour and I am missing something in there. I need to display a same sort of a Launch Image in iOS 7.1 iPad simulators as well. At the moment (iPhone 7.1/ iPhone 8.0 / iPad 8.0) working fine.</p>
  
  <pre><code>1). iPhone 8.0 Simulators - Display 'Launch Screen' and works fine
  2). iPad 8.0 Simulators   - Display 'Launch Screen' and works fine
  3). iPhone 7.1 Simulators - Picks correct 'Launch Image' and works fine
  4). iPad 7.1 Simulators   - DOES NOT pick the correct 'Launch Image' and instead load nothing (The default blank black screen) 
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  <p><strong>Edits</strong></p>
  
  <p>Screenshot of the settings is as follows</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wTtLO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wTtLO.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>