I figured it out. I had a new image which was a pdf. If I change tick the "Resizing: Preserve Vector Data" box in the asset catalog it works. With it unticked I think it must go over some resource limit and get killed.
To figure it out I replaced all my parent live activity/DI views with simple text fields and then it worked. Then it's a case of adding thing back until you figure out what's over the limit.
Obviously it would be better if apple fed this back to developers in a clear way. And also if the sim more closely modelled the device.
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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