Labels in view (playlist title, title, description) don't appear when run. (covered by icon?)

I had a similar problem and it appears to have been due to the order of the views (as Justin suggested), but the Storyboard was showing the frames in the expected order (the placeholder in the back and the UIView for the title/description on top). I suspect this may be a glitch in Xcode/Storyboard.

My "Symptoms": If I didn't set the background color, it worked just fine. After setting the background color it no longer showed the title/description view.

My "Fix": I sent the UIImageView (the placeholder) to the FRONT (select it and do Editor->Arrange->Send to Front) AND THEN back to the BACK (Editor->Arrange->Send to Back).

Also, check your document outline. It could be something as simple as your Image View is just sitting on top of the other View.

I had the same problem with the description label. I checked the debugging area and on my Playlist.swift file i had this code:

description = playlistDictionary["Description"] as String!

turns out i had description in uppercase when I called it on the dictionary, so i changed it to this:

description = playlistDictionary["description"] as String!

this might be it, if not, check what the other users said too! hope it helps.

I selected the View that contains both the Title and Description in the storyboard Document Outline and Sent it to the Front by Editor>Arrange>Send to Front

My description was the only instance not showing up. I just commented out playlistDescription and it worked, but I can't figure out why. All other code is also identical to Pasan's. Anyone have an idea why?

if playlist != nil {
            // playlistDescription.text = playlist!.description
            playlistCoverImage.image = playlist!.largeIcon
            playlistCoverImage.backgroundColor = playlist!.backgroundColor
            playlistTitle.text = playlist!.title
        }