Snapshot methods broken on iPhone 6 device and simulator

Question

For some unknown reason there seems to be a possible bug with all screenshot methods on the iPhone 6 simulator (and device). Whenever I call any of the screenshot methods includ

Answer 1

Following on from Ryans solution, I added a launch screen xib (or storyboard) and this resolved the issue on the iPhone 6 and 6 plus.

So make sure you have it set in your project settings, it should end up looking something like this:

Answer 2

We are seeing this same issue when running the following code:

[window drawViewHierarchyInRect:window.bounds afterScreenUpdates:YES];

The only solution that we have found so far is to make sure that the application has launch images sized for the iPhone 6 and 6+ and then we no longer are getting the flickering.

Answer 3

It seems to be a bug on Apple's side that occurs on scaled apps (those that have no design/assets/layout support for iPhone 6/6+) This one helped me get over it: snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates glitch on iOS 8

Basically uses: [view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];