I had an iPhone app that I needed to convert to be iPad compatible. I added an iPad stroyboard as per this answer and even changed it so that it could be iPad only. The iPad layout shows up fine on all iPad simulators and when i run it on an ipad2 device. But when i run it on an iPad 3 device, it shows the iPhone layout instead and the scale factor (x2, x1) shows up in the upper right corner of the screen. I already added an iPad launchImage, and App icon. my info.plist contains both iPhone and iPad storyboard names.
what could cause the iPad3 to treat the app as iPhone given that it works fine on iPad2 device and all simulators ?
UPDATE:
Turned out the iPad was jailbroken and had RetinaPad installed (from cydia). Removed it and everything worked well.