iOS 9 Xcode 7 - Application appears with black bars on top and bottom

Solution 1:

Did you migrate your app from an earlier version of Xcode? If so then Xcode is now making an assumption about your screen size and you need a way of indicating the actual screen size at run time.

There are two ways:

a) If you use a launch screen.

You are missing a LaunchScreen.storyboard file. Create a Launch Screen object from the New File... dialog

b) If you don't use a launch screen.

Go to your Target's settings and choose General, then App Icons and Launch Images. Now set "Launch Screen File" to your "main.storyboard" (or another storyboard if appropriate)

Solution 2:

My App does not use a launch image. Setting the "Launch Screen File" to my "main.storyboard" file fixed the issue for me.

This setting can be found under "Target->General->App Icons and Launch Images"

Use the following link for more information: http://oleb.net/blog/2014/08/replacing-launch-images-with-storyboards/

Solution 3:

For me the problem is i'm migrating my app from earlier version of Xcode and the project is missing LaunchScreen.storyboard file. I have just created LaunchScreen.storyboard and added it to launch Screen File. This did the trick.