I had the same problem with the black launch screen. Although, mine was a trivial error and could have been easily avoided, had I been more thorough and paid a little attention. I could have noticed right away that the "LaunchScreen.storyboard" which always appeared as "Launch...oryboard" due to the lack of horizontal screen estate, indeed was named "Launch Screen.storyboard", with a big fat space in the middle. Meanwhile on the "App Icons and Launch Images" section of the "General" tab on the "Targets" page it was called "LaunchScreen", without a space...