IOS launch image sizes

Question

The ios App Programming Guide states the following launch image sizes for iPad apps:

1024x748px and 2048x1496px.

Yet in XCode, I am given the following sizes for ipad portrait launch images in the tooltip:

1024x768px and 2048x1536px.

Which should I follow?

note:

the ios human interface guidelines state:

For iPad launch images, do not include the status bar region.

I am confused as to which dimensions I should be following.

Answer 1

The Launch image dimensions are indeed confusing, and require a lot of needless cross reference. In Xcode there is a page where the launch images are drag and drop yet inexplicably lack pix dimensions!!

Through trial and error, Owen Rubin came up with the following dimensions and I made an image for your reference. Please let me know if we've made any errors.

Answer 2

iOS Launch Image Sizes - (with newly added iPhone X) iPhone and iPad.