UIImageView missing images in Launch Screen on device

Question

I have an app that supports iOS8 and later, built in Xcode 7 and I am using a XIB for a Launch Screen (I do not have launch images). The view contains a single UILabel with

Answer 1

I also had this exact problem in Xcode 7 with iPad and iPhone devices. Although it makes no sense, I was able to get around it most of the time by setting not only the Image but also the Highlighted image in the image view to the same image in my images.xcassets.