Question

I want to show the message which asks the user if he accepts that the application will use the location services in his device. How can i implement that, WITHOUT saving his location? I’ve tried to do startLocationUpdates and then stopLocationUpdates, but that doesn’t work. If i remove the stopLocationUpdates, that works, but the location indicator remains in the status bar.

If you ask why i need this, I’m using Core Location methods few screens later. Before using them, i check for + (CLAuthorizationStatus)authorizationStatus , and if it’s different from “Authorized”, i give an alert message. Is that wrong ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

I suppose that you call to startLocationUpdates and then stopLocationUpdates in the same method?

If this is the case then try the following:

// Assuming that you have a property called locationManager
// If you don't then you should at least have an initiated member 
// in order to succeed with the second line below
[self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
[self.locationManager performSelector:@selector(stopUpdatingLocation) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.1];

This way the stopLocationUpdates method will be called in the next runloop.