ios – Black/Blank Splash Screen (Loading Screen) on Apple Device

I have a .NET 7 MAUI application that is being used solely for iOS/iPadOS. The splash screen is completely black with nothing visible. The SVG file is an image with no black – only blue and white. This happens in deployment to local devices and simulators, as well as when deploying a Release build IPA to the device.

I have:

• A loading_screen.svg file in /Resources/Splash with a Build Action of MauiSplashScreen.
• The file size is 214 KB. The resolution is 1920 x 1080.
• Set the MauiSplashScreen tag:

<ItemGroup>
  <MauiSplashScreen Include="Resources\Splash\loading_screen.svg" />
</ItemGroup>

• Set the UILaunchStoryboardName in Info.plist for the iOS platform:

<key>UILaunchStoryboardName</key>
<string>MauiSplash</string>

• Set the UILaunchImageFile in Info.plist for the iOS platform (I have also tried changing the extension in the string below to .png):

<key>UILaunchImageFile</key>
<string>Resources\Splash\loading_screen.svg</string>