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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:21:16+00:00

With CLLocationManager I can use the following code to determine if I can access

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With CLLocationManager I can use the following code to determine if I can access location services on the device. This is the master setting for all apps and can be turned on and off.

if (self.locationManager.locationServicesEnabled) {
    [self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}

But a user can deny access to an individual app and in order to not execute the code to use the location manager I need to know if the user approved access to location services for this specific app. I saw that at one point there was a property called locationServicesApproved which appears it would indicate if the user approved access to location services in this app. But it was removed in 2008.

Source: http://trailsinthesand.com/apple-removes-notifications-from-iphone-sdk-beta-4/

It appears that there is no way to determine if the user approved access to location services but that seems to be a big hole in the SDK.

Is this feature in the SDK elsewhere? What can I do to determine if the user has approved access to location services for the current app?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I answered my own question in the comment to the question above.

    The answer (copied from the comment above):

    It appears that you must wait for locationManager:didFailWithError: to be called and the error code will point to values in CLError.h. Values are kCLErrorLocationUnknown, kCLErrorDenied, kCLErrorNetwork, and kCLErrorHeadingFailure. It appears that the second value is what I should check to see if the user denied access to location services.

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