iOS app doesn't ask for location permission

Question

My Swift-iOS app is meant to show the user\'s location on a map. However, the XCode debug console tells me I need to ask permission to show the user\'s location. I think, I

Answer 1

As David Berry, Cayke Prudente and Levi Johnson mentioned, I just needed to add NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription to my Info.plist file. To understand more WHY I needed this, I went for further documentation and I'm sharing here, as it can help others the same way they helped me.

The user prompt contains the text from the NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription key in your app’s Info.plist file, and the presence of that key is required when calling this method.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/cllocationmanager/1620562-requestwheninuseauthorization