SpringBoard failed to launch application with error: 5

Question

My iPhone application suddenly stopped launching in dev mode. When I launch in simulator it pops up a dialog: SpringBoard failed to launch application with error: 5 There are tons of references on the web about error 3 and 7, but not the 5. I tried to follow the suggestions for the 3 and the 7, clean up the app, remove it from the simulator, restart the xcode etc... -- does not help. Can anybody shed some light about this mysterious error 5 and how to overcome it?

Answer 1

Adding to dmitryame's answer, solving this issue for me was only accomplished by unchecking "Launch due to a background fetch event"only by Under Edit Scheme / Run Configuration.

Below is an image of the culprit causing the error message in my case:

Answer 2

Quit Simulator and clean Xcode. The fresh build will not show this Alert again. The possible reason for this might be switching between 64-bit simulator and 32-bit simulator.

Answer 3

After a while the issue came back, so digging into it, revealed, that I must have accidentally turned on location simulation option in the Run configuration as well as Background fetch (launch due to background fetch event). I was playing with the background fetch and the location events, but decided not to use it after all. Turning those off in the run scheme brought my app back to live.

Answer 4

So, here is the answer. It's got something to do with the background location service. Apparently it was disabled for my application. Once I removed it from the Info.plist -- things started clicking again. Put it back -- the same exact issue. One would hope, the messages I got would be a bit more user friendly. Anyways, thanks for helping me.

Answer 5

I got the same problem 2 hours ago then I closed the iOS simulator and Xcode then run it again it worked perfectly try it maybe it will work.