I could not find a universal way to break this post, however, based on a comment on the apple dev forums, I was able to figure out a reason that I did not see when appearing on stackoverflow or google.
In my application, the status bar is displayed first, so it is not there when default.png is displayed. In app: didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: I called [setStatusBarHidden app: NO withAnimation: YES]. Commenting that the call deleted the message. It didn't matter if the animation flag was NO. Wrapping this cal in dispatch_async also deleted the message.
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