Xcode 6 & Swift: Black bars appear above and below the viewcontroller on iOS 7 iPhone 5 device

Question

I created a single view test app and tried running it on my iPhone 5 with iOS 7 installed. It looks like the screen is set to the iPhone 4 size and black bars appear above and b

Answer 1

For some reason, the default LaunchScreen.xib that comes with a new project on Xcode 6.1 is 480x480, while the standard .xib file size for auto layout and adaptive layout appears to be 600x600. If you set the LaunchScreen.xib view size to 600x600, it should fix the problem, did for me.