Check if location services are enabled

Question

I've been doing some research about CoreLocation. Recently, I encountered a problem that has been covered elsewhere, but in Objective C, and for iOS 8.

I feel kinda silly asking this, but how can you check if location services are enabled using swift, on iOS 9?

On iOS 7 (and maybe 8?) you could use locationServicesEnabled(), but that doesn't appear to be working when compiling for iOS 9.

So how would I accomplish this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Add the CLLocationManagerDelegate to your class inheritance and then you can make this check:

Import CoreLocation Framework

import CoreLocation 

Swift 1.x - 2.x version:

if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {     switch CLLocationManager.authorizationStatus() {     case .NotDetermined, .Restricted, .Denied:         print("No access")     case .AuthorizedAlways, .AuthorizedWhenInUse:         print("Access")     } } else {     print("Location services are not enabled") } 

Swift 4.x version:

if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {      switch CLLocationManager.authorizationStatus() {         case .notDetermined, .restricted, .denied:             print("No access")         case .authorizedAlways, .authorizedWhenInUse:             print("Access")      } } else {     print("Location services are not enabled") } 

Swift 5.1 version

if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {     switch CLLocationManager.authorizationStatus() {         case .notDetermined, .restricted, .denied:             print("No access")         case .authorizedAlways, .authorizedWhenInUse:             print("Access")         @unknown default:             break     } } else {     print("Location services are not enabled") } 

iOS 14.x

In iOS 14 you will get the following error message: authorizationStatus() was deprecated in iOS 14.0

To solve this, use the following:

private let locationManager = CLLocationManager()  if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {     switch locationManager.authorizationStatus {         case .notDetermined, .restricted, .denied:             print("No access")         case .authorizedAlways, .authorizedWhenInUse:             print("Access")         @unknown default:             break     } } else {     print("Location services are not enabled") }