Location Services not working in iOS 8

Question

My app that worked fine on iOS 7 doesn\'t work with the iOS 8 SDK.

CLLocationManager doesn\'t return a location, and I don\'t see my app under

Answer 1

I was working on an app that was upgraded to iOS 8 and location services stopped working. You'll probably get and error in the Debug area like so:

Trying to start MapKit location updates without prompting for location authorization. Must call -[CLLocationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization] or -[CLLocationManager requestAlwaysAuthorization] first.

I did the least intrusive procedure. First add NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription entry to your info.plist:

Notice I didn't fill out the value for this key. This still works, and I'm not concerned because this is a in house app. Also, there is already a title asking to use location services, so I didn't want to do anything redundant.

Next I created a conditional for iOS 8:

if ([self.locationManager respondsToSelector:@selector(requestAlwaysAuthorization)]) {
    [_locationManager requestAlwaysAuthorization];
}

After this the locationManager:didChangeAuthorizationStatus: method is call:

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didChangeAuthorizationStatus:  (CLAuthorizationStatus)status
{
    [self gotoCurrenLocation];
}

And now everything works fine. As always, check out the documentation.