How can I display a splash screen for longer on an iPhone?

Question

How can I display a splash screen for a longer period of time than the default time on an iPhone?

Answer 1

Even though it is against the guidelines but if you still want to do this than a better approach rather than sleeping thread will be

//Extend the splash screen for 3 seconds.
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runUntilDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:3]];

this way the main thread is not blocked and if it is listening for any notifications and some other network related stuff, it still carries on.

UPDATE FOR SWIFT:

 NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop().runUntilDate(NSDate(timeIntervalSinceNow:3))