activeConversation comes up as nil if the view controller is not set to initial view controller. Seems like a bug to me. Anyone else experience this?

I setup a Launch Screen Storyboard which has a logo for my app in .pdf vector. When I build the project image is not visible on device. Simulator works just fine. Tried on a few diffrent devices and the issue persists. Cleaned the whole project, deleted derived data, still an issue. Image is getting pulled from Asset catalogue. Any ideas?