addUIInterruptionMonitor(withDescription:handler:) not working on iOS 10 or 9

Question

The following tests works fine on iOS 11. It dismisses the alert asking permissions to use the locations services and then zooms in in the map. On iOS 10 or 9, it does none

Answer 1

I had this problem and River2202's solution worked for me.

Note that this is not a fix to get the UIInterruptionMonitor to work, but a different way of dismissing the alert. You may as well remove the addUIInterruptionMonitor setup. You'll need to have the springboard.buttons["Allow"].exists test anywhere the permission alert could appear. If possible, force it to appear at an early stage of the testing so you don't need to worry about it again later.

Happily the springboard.buttons["Allow"].exists code still works in iOS 11, so you can have a single code path and not have to do one thing for iOS 10 and another for iOS 11.

Incidentally, I logged the base issue (that addUIInterruptionMonitor is not working pre-iOS 11) as a bug with Apple. It has been closed as a duplicate now, so I guess they acknowledge that it is a bug.