iOS 8 vibrancy image not showing on device

Question

So I created a simple app using Xcode for iOS 8, and used the new \"Visual Effects View with Blur and Vibrancy\" object in the interface builder. It works great for text but all

Answer 1

Here's a partial solution: switch your image in the asset catalog to be a template image:

At least this way you'll see something on the device.

EDIT Actually, Apple is explicit about this. I quote from the UIVisualEffectView.h header:

UIImageView will need its image to have a rendering mode of UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate to receive the proper effect.