title: Xamarin.Forms iOS - Blank White Launch Screen (Splash Screen)
body: <p>On a Xamarin.Forms iOS project we started a couple years ago, we used to have a working launch screen. But recently I renamed and cleaned out a bunch of the images. Now the launch screen doesn't work, and no matter what I do, I can't get it to work.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Visual Studio 2017, and I've tried creating a story board (LaunchScreen.storyboard), following the few crappy tutorials that are out there (like <a href="https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/application_fundamentals/working_with_images/launch-screens/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one</a>), and I've verified that in info.plist, the <code>UILaunchStoryboardName</code> key with <code>LaunchScreen</code> string exist, and in LaunchScreen.storyboard (located in root of iOS project), it has a single view with a red background (<code>&lt;color key="backgroundColor" colorSpace="calibratedRGB" red="0.92549019607843142" green="0.23529411764705882" blue="0.24313725490196078" alpha="1"/&gt;</code>), and an image inside.</p>
  
  <p>I've even tried a story board with just a red background and no image. No luck.</p>
  
  <p>I've also tried just the Launch Image route, where I add a Launch Image Asset Catalog, I add images for the various resolutions, and in info.plist, in the Visual Assets tab, in the Launch Images section, I specify LaunchImage as the Source, and I leave the Launch Screen not set (as opposed to setting to LaunchScreen storyboard).</p>
  
  <p>But no matter what I try - I <strong><em>always</em></strong> get a <strong>blank white screen</strong>. I've tried clearing the <code>obj</code> and <code>bin</code> folders in the iOS and PCL projects and restarting Visual Studio.</p>
  
  <p>Why is this so difficult? What am I missing?</p>