Is it possible to determine programmatically that a user has denied permission to use their location?
Secondly, if a user has denied permission, is it possible to re-prompt the user?
By using location services and CLLocationManager you can request location permissions, check authorization status, get user location updates to personalize your app experience in Swift.
The OS will only ever prompt the user once. If they deny permission, that's it. What you can do is direct the user to the Settings for your app by passing UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString to UIApplication 's openURL: method. From there, they can re-enable location services if they wish.
You can determine your authorization status using the authorizationStatus
class method on CLLocationManager
. This returns a CLAuthorizationStatus
which is defined as:
typedef enum {
kCLAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined = 0,
kCLAuthorizationStatusRestricted,
kCLAuthorizationStatusDenied,
kCLAuthorizationStatusAuthorized
} CLAuthorizationStatus;
The system will prompt the user to authorize your application if the authorization status is undetermined when you attempt to start the location manager.
Additionally, you can check the locationServicesEnabled
class method to determine if location is enabled system wide.
Additionally - If locationServicesEnabled returns NO and you attempt to start location services anyway, the system will prompt the user to confirm whether location services should be reenabled.
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