Question

How to turn ON location services through Code in my application if location service is in OFF condition i want it to ON through alertView i have two buttons in alertview cancel & settings
if i click settings it needs to go settings of the device is it possible???

Could anyone help me??

thanks………..

Answer 1

I’ve had to deal with the same problem but this is just not possible under iOS. You have to check if location services is enabled :

[CLLocationManager locationServicesEnabled];

and if not, ask the user to go to the settings to enable it (through an AlertView for example).

Note that Apple says :

locationServicesEnabled : You should check the return value of this
method before starting location updates to determine if the user has
location services enabled for the current device. If this method
returns NO and you start location updates anyway, the Core Location
framework prompts the user with a confirmation panel asking whether
location services should be reenabled.

But that only seem to work the very first time you check. If the user denies, the confirmation panel is not shown anymore.

You may also check :

switch ([CLLocationManager authorizationStatus]) {

        case kCLAuthorizationStatusDenied:
        case kCLAuthorizationStatusRestricted:
        case kCLAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined:
    }