Question

Is there a way to figure out programmatically if CoreLocation is displaying that alert?

I’m displaying a welcome screen and want to adapt it’s look if the alert shows up.

Answer 1

When you call the instance method of CLLocationManager -startUpdatingLocation, you can schedule a NSTimer with interval of 1 second for example and inside the timer callback call the -authorizationStatus class method of CLLocationManager. If it returns kCLAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined, then the alert is shown and the user should choose either to allow or deny. If he denies then the -locationManager:didFailWithError delegate method is called with error code kCLErrorDenied and you should stop updating location.