Why isn't the [CLLocationManager location] updated when the CLLocationManagerDelegate message is sent?

Question

When the locationManager:didUpdateLocations: (or its deprecated equivalent locationManager:didUpdateToLocation:fromLocation:) message is sent to the CLLocationManagerDelegate, the CLLocationManagerDelegate Protocol Reference states that:

By the time this message is delivered to your delegate, the new location data is also available directly from the CLLocationManager object. The newLocation parameter may contain the data that was cached from a previous usage of the location service. You can use the timestamp property of the location object to determine how recent the location data is.

However, in practice, CLLocationManager's location property is not updated. Why not?

I have created a sample project to demonstrate this: https://github.com/sibljon/CoreLocationDidUpdateToLocationBug

The relevant code is in JSViewController, a snippet of which is below:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
    self.locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyKilometer;
    self.locationManager.distanceFilter = 10000.0; // 10 km
    self.locationManager.delegate = self;
    self.locationManager.purpose = @"To show you nearby hotels.";
    [self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];

    [self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(appWillEnterForeground:)
                                                 name:UIApplicationWillEnterForegroundNotification
                                               object:nil];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(appDidEnterBackground:)
                                                 name:UIApplicationDidEnterBackgroundNotification
                                               object:nil];
}

#pragma mark - CLLocationManagerDelegate

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation
{
    NSLog(@"New location: %@", newLocation);
    NSLog(@"Old location: %@", oldLocation);
    NSLog(@"- [CLLocationManager location]: %@", manager.location);
}

//- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateLocations:(NSArray *)locations
//{
//    for (CLLocation *location in locations)
//    {
//        NSLog(@"Current location: %@", locations);
//    }
//    NSLog(@"- [CLLocationManager location]: %@", manager.location);
//}

#pragma mark - Notifications

- (void)appWillEnterForeground:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    [self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}

- (void)appDidEnterBackground:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    [self.locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];
}

Answer 1

I believe this to be a bug and I have filed a bug report with Apple. A mirror of the bug report can be found on Open Radar:

http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=2682402